#GuestDayTuesday – #BillEngleson – #TheLifeOfGronsky – #Mystery – #Thriller&Suspense, #LiteraryFiction

/ Marcia Meara

Hi, Everyone! Here it is, #GuestDayTuesday again, and I know you’re going to enjoy today’s featured author, Bill Engleson. Bill’s here to share his book, The Life of Gronsky, so let’s get started. Bill, take it away!

Thanks, Marcia!

BLURB:
Gilbert Gronsky has taken up writing late in life and decides in 2021 to spread his writerly wings and enter a three-day novel contest over the Labour Day Weekend. As he writes his ‘novella,’ a mystery, his life alternates between emerging mini-chapters, minor interruptions, his passion for the US Open tennis tournament, his lover, his friend, and, at one point, a shocker of a visitor in his garage.

In November, Gronsky fashions a more complex crime novel set in post-war Canada, 1946-48. 

As he writes, he is occupied by a plethora of larger world actions including extreme weather events, COP 26, Haiti missionary kidnappings, love, food, and Covid.

 And, of course, tennis wherever it pops up on television.

Review of The Life of Gronsky:

https://thebcreview.ca/2023/07/16/1846-dombrowski-engleson/

Author Bill Engleson

Bill Engleson is a retired social worker, pickleball aficionado, novelist, poet, humourist, essayist, and flash fictionista. He was raised in Nanaimo, lived for decades in New Westminster, and retired to Denman Island in 2003.

Bill is the author of two novels, Like a Child to Home, which received an Honourable Mention at the inaugural 2016 Whistler Independent Book Awards, and 2023’s The Life of Gronsky.

In 2016, Silver Bow Publishing released his second book, a collection of humorous literary essays entitled Confessions of an Inadvertently Gentrifying Soul.

Deep into Covid’s first and second wave, his poetry appeared in several anthologies including, The Vancouver Island Regional Library’s Alone but Not Alone – Poetry in Isolation; Drift, Poems and Poets from the Comox Valley; Planet Earth’s The Sky is Falling! The Sky is Falling! and the first and at least one subsequent edition of the Van Isle Poetry Collective.

In the past few years, his fiction/creative non-fiction has appeared in Island Writer Magazine and Geist.

Bill is currently writing a prequel to his first novel entitled Drawn Towards the Sun and a sequel to The Life of Gronsky tentatively dubbed, The Book of Gronsky.

You can Buy The Life of Gronsky HERE:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-life-of-gronsky-bill-engleson/1143136764

https://www.amazon.com/Books-Bill-Engleson/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3ABill+Engleson

https://tertulia.com/book/the-life-of-gronsky-bill-engleson/9780228888413

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1350532

https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/the-life-of-gronsky

26 thoughts on “#GuestDayTuesday – #BillEngleson – #TheLifeOfGronsky – #Mystery – #Thriller&Suspense, #LiteraryFiction”

  5. Hi Bill. I am from Canada as well. I live in Ontario which is beautiful as well but BC has the mountains!

    Like Jacqueline, I would like to know if you had yourself in mind when writing about Gilbert? Did you decide to write after retirement?

    BTW I enjoy pickle ball as well. It certainly is a fast-growing sport around here!

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    • I wrote the book, my third, in two spurts. The 3-day novel contest on Labour Day weekend 2022 and in November of that year, I wrote the rest of it as part of NaNoWriMo, an activity meant to have participants write every day and, hopefully, achieve 50,000 words. As for did I have myself in mind, I use as much of me as I can, experiences, issues, likes and loves…And I have been writing way before I retired…but of course, retirement permitted much free time…Thanks for the thoughts. And Pickleball rocks…

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