Roy M. Griffis

I decided I wanted to be a writer when I was ten, and I've never looked back. Along the way, I've done all the usual starving writer jobs: waiter, janitor, worked in a bookstore. In between that and college, I became the 62nd Aviation Rescue Swimmer in the US Coast Guard. But I've always written. In the broom closet or the ship's galley underway, in the barracks and at my cubicle over lunchtime. Short stories, poetry, plays, screenplays (one of them winning "The John Milius Screenwriting Award" in 2018), and novels. My current novels include my "By the Hands of Men" series, the globe-circling saga of a passionate, enduring love that begins in World War One and concludes in America in the 1930s. Concurrently, I have written a series journeying through a contemporary, post-apocalypse American shattered by attacks from within and without ("The Lonesome George Chronicles"). Regardless of the subject or the setting, I write gripping, emotionally immersive work that transports the reader to another time and place. At least, that's what my readers have said on Amazon. You can learn more about me at roymgriffis.com.