Grace Revealed: A Memoir by Greg Archer

My Writing Style

Writers love to feel that high that often comes from writing and having written something. I love that. My writing style typically reflects my enthusiasm and, at times, my somewhat nervous “everyman” energy. There’s also an underlying befuddlement to understanding life, one’s place in life and the surrender that typically must come for growth to occur.

A great deal of my writing style tends to reflect my interest in going beneath the surface of the Here and Now and exploring the underlying emotions that reside within. I love exploring beneath the surface and whether I am writing fiction of non-fiction, I typically go there. It must be built in—to just probe deep.

When I was writing my latest book, Grace Revealed, the process was very unusual. For starters, it was a memoir about me and my Polish family, and it showcased the deep love my grandmother had for her children and her husband as they endured seemingly endless uncertainty during the 1940s, after Stalin deported them and nearly a million other Polish people. For that project, it was a curious mix of possibilities, because I had to both delve deeply into my own feelings about uncovering intense bits of family history as well as understanding my own place in the big spiritual jigsaw puzzle that was my family ancestry.

It was quite a tightrope to walk.

However, I prefer to write about those things that are often uncomfortable to face because in the facing of them, a kind of levity occurs. And this is priceless, really. When I do not write, I just feel “off.”

In that respect, writing, for me, is a kind of therapeutic process—perhaps the best form of therapy around.

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GREG ARCHER is an author, cultural moderator, award-winning journalist, television host and motivational speaker. His latest book, GRACE REVEALED: A MEMOIR, goes from glitz to the Gulags as the popular entertainment reporter takes a step back from Hollywood to explore his Polish family’s mesmerizing tale surviving Joseph Stalin’s mass deportation of Poles during the 1940s. What he uncovers along the way fuels his mission to not only expose the nearly forgotten odyssey that befell nearly 2 million Poles 75 years ago, but to also expose the ripple effects that remain today.

“Powerful, touching and heartfelt.”—The Huffington Post


Excerpt:

It all began with a broken picture frame and actor Ewan McGregor. But not at the same time. And a photograph of Ewan McGregor was not even in the picture frame. Nor did the Hollywood hotshot have anything to do with breaking it.

Allow me to explain …

It was the Fall of 2010 … which is the perfect way to begin a story, but for me, it really could be taken quite literally.

One morning, I walked into my third-floor office of the weekly magazine at which I was the editor in Santa Cruz, California. To my surprise, the double picture frame housing two different black-and-white photos of my Polish family lay face up on my desk and the glass from the frames broken, the remnants arranged in a clumsy collection of jagged shards right there atop of it. 

My Polish grandmother’s disenchanted eyes stared up at me with haunting concern from one of those photos and her tightly drawn lips refused her powdered, solemn face to soften. Next to her lay a group portrait of my grandmother, my aunt, my three uncles, and my mother, all at various ages in their youth, sitting on a bench outdoors in Tanzania, Africa, during the 1940s.

I sat down behind my desk and quickly assessed the situation, glancing at the top shelf on the wall nearly three feet away. The picture frame typically resided there and during the course of any given week, I would peer up at those photos more times than I could accurately assess and ruminate—on my family’s strength, their will, how World War II affected them. At times, these deep thoughts temporarily assisted me in avoiding a life-long habit I had yet to fully overcome: Mood Swinging.

I would not necessarily call myself bipolar. 

Emotional? Of course.  But bipolar. No. (Not yet.) 

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

GREG ARCHER

Author, Journalist, Cultural Moderator, More …

GREG ARCHER is an author, cultural moderator, award-winning journalist, television host and motivational speaker. His latest book, GRACE REVEALED: A MEMOIR, goes from glitz to the Gulags as the popular entertainment reporter takes a step back from Hollywood to explore his Polish family’s mesmerizing tale surviving Joseph Stalin’s mass deportation of Poles during the 1940s. What he uncovers along the way fuels his mission to not only expose the nearly forgotten odyssey that befell nearly 2 million Poles 75 years ago, but to also expose the ripple effects that remain today.

“Powerful, touching and heartfelt.”—The Huffington Post 

**** GREG ARCHER’s work covering agents of change, history, travel and the entertainment industry have appeared in The Huffington Post, Oprah Magazine, San Francisco Examiner, The Advocate, Bust, Palm Springs Life, VIA Magazine, Jetset Extra and on variety of cable television outlets. A four-time recipient of the Best Writer Award in a popular San Francisco Bay Area Readers' Poll, he shines the light on change agents near and far, and other under-reported issues in society. His splits his time between his hometown of Chicago, and Palm Springs.


WEB: www.gregarcher.com.

GRACE REVEALED: A MEMOIR SITE: www.graverevealedbook.com

GRACE REVEALED / FACEBOOK:  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Grace-Revealed-A-Memoir/835500373138365?ref=hl

BOOK TRAILERS:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbxpaZiDod4

TWITTER @Greg_Archer

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