Andrew Paul Grell

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About Andrew Paul Grell
Andrew Paul Grell became an accidental writer after helping, peering over the shoulder of, and chauffeuring his wife while she earned a creative writing MA from Wilkes University. His Biblical science fiction novel SCAPEGOATS: THE GOAT PROTOCOLS is now out from Golden Fleece Press. You can also sample his prose in American Writers Review, Summer 2018, available on Amazon. He will be appearing in the anthology SURPRISED BY JOY from Wising Up Press.
Andrew’s work generally involves practical scientific and ethical solutions to stupid political problems, particularly environmental quality, and is informed by biblical stories and oddities and Jewish traditions and ethics, but not all the time. He usually includes too many inside jokes and obscure references in hopes of providing a little edification along the way from opening to denouement.
Andrew lives in a park in Manhattan with his wife Melody and their new maltipoo puppy, Cyrus King of Persia. Andrew commutes to work by bicycle through Midtown Manhattan traffic, so even if you don’t buy anything, he hopes you will wish him safe travels.
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Blog postHit the link unless you frighten easily… The only good thing about this is that it confirms my back-of-the-envelope, off-the-cuff, seat-of-the-pants calculations, based on snippets of AMA, ALA, and census data regarding the relation between changes in coal and lung disease morbidity and mortality were pretty accurate. The government said this, so it’s got … Continue reading Only the Scapegoats can save you from the government allowing you to choke!4 years ago Read more
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Blog postNURU
Andrew Paul Grell
“Last year’s was so lame. I mean. Really. A fake time capsule? How did that even get over?” We were assembled at an isolated row of benches looking down onto where the Grand Concourse and Boulevard smacked into Mosholu Parkway, close enough to school but far enough away that nobody would spot us, even if they were able to withstand the powerful aroma of the Ailanthus trees. In a school known for brains, Dina was a stan4 years ago Read more -
Blog postI had my first interview for SCAPEGOATS yesterday, conducted by the eternal (and eternally laboring) Sabina Mollot of Town & Village. And tomorrow, I’ll have my first press release!
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Blog postSo. I had some cards printed up to hand out to friends, neighbors, and the dog park folks; people who were in my corner during the process of getting out the door, or people that may be interested. Info about the book, Amazon link, that sort of thing.
I met a guy, his son, and their new puppy, Max. The guy asked about my vape, we had a long talk about vaping, smoking, exercising, and dogs, and then we introduced ourselves and I handed him a card. The kid’s name4 years ago Read more -
Blog postTheseus 2017
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Copyright 2018 Andrew Paul Grell
Entry: February 18, 2017. The first entry of The Journal to Save the World, T. Lapyx Galanos. In my ancestors’ days in Crete, the Labyrinth was meant to keep things in which wanted to get out. Today’s Labyrinth, the circular streets and sudden dead ends of the District of Columbia, is packed with people desperately trying to stay in. Tod4 years ago Read more -
Blog postAmerican Writers Review, Summer 2018 Edition, “The Calm of the East River”
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Surprised By Joy (Wising Up Press, due out August 2018) “A Christmas Break Miracle”
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Blog postMy late dad and I shared a favorite bible story, the story of Dina. To sum that up, Dina, Jacob’s only daughter, takes a walk from the herder camp into the big city of Shechm. The prince sees her, decides he needs her, and takes her. The herders and the burghers negotiate terms so that the rapist could marry his victim and the two sides would have a trade deal. Then after a mass circumcision, two of Dina’s brothers killed all the men in the town. I thought the st4 years ago Read more
Titles By Andrew Paul Grell
Nan just found out that she can hear a goat named Cap--an odds-making goat with a penchant for handicapping races. He needs a ride.
The Scapegoats are converging on Kalispell for the accounting of the Goat Protocol and kid'll-eat-ivy-too if Cap won't make it.
Butt--get it? Butt?--the goats are not the only ones on the way to Kalispell and the Other Side is getting a little desperate to subvert a facilitator or two.
Can the goats and their good works clear the air, reunite a family, and finally make it to the Great Petting Zoo?
No Bl3@ting, Scapegoats is a meditation on good and evil mediated by talking goats, outsiders with Ideas, and Sophie--who may or may not actually be the personification of knowledge.