{"id":14469,"date":"2025-11-15T12:51:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T17:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/?page_id=14469"},"modified":"2025-11-15T12:51:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T17:51:38","slug":"michael-gray","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/michael-gray\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\"\"
Photo credit: Evoto<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Michael Loyd Gray was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, but grew up in Champaign, Illinois. He is the author of eight published books of fiction, more than sixty published short stories, and is a member of the Society of Midland Authors.\u00a0Gray earned a MFA from Western Michigan University and a bachelor\u2019s degree from the University of Illinois.\u00a0He lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, with three cats and a lot of electric guitars.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDespite early influences from writers such as Ernest Hemingway, Bobbie Ann Mason, Charles Portis, Joseph Heller, and others, I developed my own style and ability to fashion voices suitable for the characters I create. As a guitar player, I\u2019ve learned that tone and pacing and rhythm are as important in writing as in music. I write powered by the notion that writing is music. I want readers to decode what they hear and feel. I mostly just want readers to believe the characters could be real people and to then enjoy peeking into the drama of those lives.\u201d \u2013 Michael Loyd Gray<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 Gray\u2019s novella\u00a0Busted Flat<\/em>, winner of a Literary Titan Gold Award and finalist for an Eric Hoffer Award, was released in October 2024. His novella\u00a0Donovan\u2019s Revolution,\u00a0<\/em>winner of a 2025 International Impact Award for Contemporary Fiction, a Literary Titan Gold Award, and a 2025 Book Excellence Award for Historical Fiction, was released in June 2024. Released in February 2025 – Night Hawks<\/em>, a novella. Gray\u2019s first novel, Well Deserved<\/em>, won the 2008 Sol Books Prose Series Prize. His story \u201cLittle Man\u201d won both the Alligator Juniper Fiction Prize and Writers Place Award for Fiction in 2005. He is the recipient of a fiction grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regal House Publishing is proud to bring you Emperor of the Mundane<\/em> in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Loyd Gray was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, but grew up in Champaign, Illinois. He is the author of eight published books of fiction, more than sixty published short stories, and is a member of the Society of Midland Authors.\u00a0Gray earned a MFA from Western Michigan University and a bachelor\u2019s degree from the University of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-14469","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9DpGh-3Ln","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13008,"url":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/megan-schikora\/","url_meta":{"origin":14469,"position":0},"title":"Megan A. Schikora","author":"Jaynie","date":"January 3, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Megan A. Schikora grew up filling notebooks and devouring novels.\u00a0\u00a0She earned a B.A. in English from the University of Michigan and a M.A. in English with a creative writing concentration from Wayne State University.\u00a0\u00a0After working for several years in the mental health field, she became a writing instructor, all the\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"Megan A. Schikora","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Schikora-Author-Photobw-scaled.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Schikora-Author-Photobw-scaled.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Schikora-Author-Photobw-scaled.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Schikora-Author-Photobw-scaled.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Schikora-Author-Photobw-scaled.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Schikora-Author-Photobw-scaled.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4492,"url":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/david-michael-slater\/","url_meta":{"origin":14469,"position":1},"title":"David Michael Slater","author":"Jaynie","date":"February 4, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"photo credit Matt Bieker David Michael Slater was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He did not dream of being a writer. But as a psychology major at the University of Michigan, his second encounter with Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, inspired him to write his own Absurd\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/DSlater.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12603,"url":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/janice-kidd\/","url_meta":{"origin":14469,"position":2},"title":"Janice Kidd","author":"Jaynie","date":"January 30, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"I live in the Adirondack Foothills. Every day, I walk its riverbanks, old plank roads, and battle sites, a landscape that supplies rich creative inspiration. I\u2019ve lived in Alaska, Montana, and on a remote island in northern Lake Michigan. Places with long winters stir and crystallize my storytelling. I have\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/JaniceKidd_Headshot_12823.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/JaniceKidd_Headshot_12823.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/JaniceKidd_Headshot_12823.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/JaniceKidd_Headshot_12823.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/JaniceKidd_Headshot_12823.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/JaniceKidd_Headshot_12823.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2681,"url":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/ned-randle\/","url_meta":{"origin":14469,"position":3},"title":"Ned Randle","author":"Jaynie","date":"January 29, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Ned Randle resides in southern Illinois, just across the Mighty Mississippi River from St. Louis, a region of the country that informs his writing. From as far back as he can remember he\u2019s been fascinated by language, impressed by the way writers, particularly poets, string words together in rhythmic patterns\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"Ned Randle, Regal House Publishing author","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Ned_Randle.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Ned_Randle.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Ned_Randle.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Ned_Randle.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Ned_Randle.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Ned_Randle.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5958,"url":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/deirdre-fagan\/","url_meta":{"origin":14469,"position":4},"title":"Deirdre Fagan","author":"Jaynie","date":"November 3, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Deirdre Fagan is a widow, wife, and mother of two. Born in New York City, she spent her early years in a hamlet in Suffolk County, Long Island, jumping waves in the Atlantic. Shortly after her parents divorced, she was uprooted to Arizona at the age of nine. She then\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Deirdre-Fagan-SQ-NV-1-of-1-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Deirdre-Fagan-SQ-NV-1-of-1-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Deirdre-Fagan-SQ-NV-1-of-1-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Deirdre-Fagan-SQ-NV-1-of-1-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Deirdre-Fagan-SQ-NV-1-of-1-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":12894,"url":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/karen-h-schreck\/","url_meta":{"origin":14469,"position":5},"title":"Karen H. Schreck","author":"Jaynie","date":"September 14, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Karen H. Schreck grew up in a house so quiet and composed that her friends compared it to a museum. The only child of two hard-working academics, she spent many hours pretending, creating fantastical worlds and living extraordinarily within them, flying wildly away from the Midwest, only to return again.\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/thumbnail_KarenSept23_bw-scaled.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/thumbnail_KarenSept23_bw-scaled.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/thumbnail_KarenSept23_bw-scaled.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/thumbnail_KarenSept23_bw-scaled.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/thumbnail_KarenSept23_bw-scaled.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/thumbnail_KarenSept23_bw-scaled.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14472,"href":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14469\/revisions\/14472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}