“It’s 1966. The Beatles have taken over the airways, Star Trek is in its first season on NBC, and 389,000 American troops are stationed in Vietnam. In Argus, Illinois, sixteen-year-old Billy Ray Fleener is facing a different kind of struggle: he is learning what it means to be a man. With a style that is… Continue reading Blurb — King Bisuit
Author: Flat Sole Studio
Blurb — King Biscuit
“With King Biscuit, Michael Loyd Gray bores deeply into each of his characters, shoving aside all extraneous elements until we are left only with their humanity.“ —Monique Raphel High, author of Between Two Worlds
Blurb — King Biscuit
“Billy Ray had glimpsed the world outside Argus in books, on TV, and from firsthand accounts of people who’d escaped the gravitational pull of Argus and ventured out into the Great Beyond the Horizon. He longed to sail into the Winds of Chance to see where they deposited him. And so, dear Reader, read King… Continue reading Blurb — King Biscuit
Testimonial — FishingKids
Blake has an amazing eye for layout and design. He has assisted our company, FishingKids, in the creation of three books, with more in the works. Blake has been exceptional to work with! —Megan McCarthy, Creative Director of FishingKids
The Town of Watered-Down Whiskey
The Town of Watered-Down Whiskey, the latest titled we developed in Sol Books Prose Series, will be released next month. Shipping and handling is included with the price of the book. Synopsis: Minneota, Minnesota. Smalltown, America. For some, growing up in a place where everyone knows everybody evokes memories of grandmothers’ quilts, cruisin’ after school,… Continue reading The Town of Watered-Down Whiskey
Happy Holidays!
We will be on a bit of a hiatus over the holidays.
FishingKids
Our FishingKids project is moving along quite well, and we’re beginning to see the initial sketches. Here are the mock up of the cover (fonts not final). And an interior spread . . . Along with some fun art, we’re calling out informational text and illustrations. They are shown as notebook entries, drawn and written… Continue reading FishingKids
Can You Survive
Flat Sole Studio has teamed up with Lake 7 Creative to produce a new line of books: Can You Survive? As with many great ideas, this one was imagined over burgers and beer. Ryan Jacobson, founder of Lake 7 Creative, is part of a group of authors I meet up with now and then to… Continue reading Can You Survive
Can You Survive: Call of the Wild
While the second book in the Can You Survive series, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is printing, reviews for the first book, Call of the Wild, are piling up. You can read some of the reviews on the Ryan Jacobson’s blog. But here are some of my favorite excerpts . . . “The writing is… Continue reading Can You Survive: Call of the Wild
National Novel Writing Month
November has a lot going on for it: my birthday, Thanksgiving, it’s National Mustache Month, and for those of us with a book idea or two brewing upstairs, it’s also National Novel Writing Month—time to stop telling yourself that you’ll eventually crank out that novel and get to it. Last year, nearly 40,000 people completed… Continue reading National Novel Writing Month