Welcome to Gregory Michael World
Welcome to Gregory Michael World.
This is a place where I share my love of books—how I write them, the ideas behind them, and the stories that shaped me along the way. You’ll find news and updates on my growing catalog, along with thoughts straight from my own mind—the mind of one man who still believes deeply in the power of books.
I’m a single father who raised his daughter on my own. Some of my earliest memories are of my father reading to me—books like Encyclopedia Brown. That love grew into the Hardy Boys, and by the time I was around eleven, I was reading my first Lord of the Rings book. From that point on, books weren’t just entertainment—they were worlds.
Books are a storytelling medium unlike any other. Movies have time limits. Television has commercials. Both decide the pace for you. Books don’t. A book lets you slow down or speed up. It lets your imagination do the work. There are no interruptions, no constraints, and no one telling you when the story has to end. A book can take you places no other medium can—because the story lives inside you.
I’m also a comedian, and at our core, comedians are storytellers. We just tend to find humorous ways to tell those stories. Writing children’s books felt like a natural progression for me—from writing my own stand-up comedy to telling stories for kids of all ages.
More than anything else, books are safe. In a world where so much competes for our children’s attention—and where it isn’t always easy to know what’s influencing them—books remain something we can trust. When you open a book with a child, you know exactly what they’re experiencing. You know they’re safe.
There is no better way to bond with a child—whether you’re a parent, grandparent, step-parent, aunt, uncle, or caregiver—than by reading a bedtime story together. Those quiet moments matter. They last.
I also live with PTSD, and part of that means grammar and spelling aren’t always my strongest tools. That makes the process harder at times—but not impossible. The stories matter enough to do the work anyway.
It would be a genuine privilege to have my stories be part of your family’s reading time.
That belief is at the heart of everything I create here.