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About Me

I was born in Illinois, and still reside in the Midwest. I grew up reading Stephen King, Ann Rice, and Edgar Allen Poe. All of them have influenced me in their own way but my true influences came from movies and comics. I found a true love of horror/ humor and spinning a tale thanks in part to the likes of George Romeo (Night of the Living Dead), Kevin Smith (Chasing Amy, Dogma) Garth Ennis (Preacher, Punisher comics.)I have become a fan of Steve Niles (30 Days of Night), Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hells Angels) and Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club, Haunted.) All three of these men a gritty way of telling a story the way I think it should be told.
It may come as a surprise but I didnâ€™t always want to be a writer. As long as I can remember I wanted to be a tattoo artist, due to my love for drawing. I loved that my art would be on someone forever. I would get my chance to be a tattoo artist just after I turned 18. This ultimately ended in loosing interest.
I later got very into reading comics and the idea of drawing them became just as appealing as doing tattoos. I worked up several drawing to go along with a few story ideas I had bouncing around in my head. The problem came when I was told that stories I wrote were not on the same level of drawing I could produce. Strangely enough almost everyone around me thought that I might want to focus on writing and I agreed.
I ended up doing about every minimum wage job in town to make ends meet before my daughter was born and I returned to school and after a year of the Vincennes University journalism program I changed my path to English and focused on my writing.
Since then I have written everything from comics (that never saw the light of day), a couple short film scripts, and now I have turned my attention to short fiction. I would eventually like to write comics and maybe even a movie or two. For now however my focus is on getting everything published that I can and collecting them into a book of short stories. I find that the short story is a lost art and a very important step before tackling a novel.
I am currently working on Vincennes Universityâ€™s online magazine www.vu1801.com and the final draft of the next Jackson Reed story as well a several other stories. One of which is for a collection in the works that is based on the Vincennes University campus with a supernatural twist, called: Vampire University.
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My Interests

My little girl, my writing, reading, watching movies, new music, and comics

I'd like to meet:

pretty much anyone who would like to meet me?

How to make a J. Travis Grundon
Ingredients:
3 parts pride
5 parts self-sufficiency
3 parts energy
Method:
Add to a cocktail shaker and mix vigorously. Serve with a slice of curiosity and a pinch of salt. Yum!
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Music:

Johnny Cash, Tori Amos , Death Cab for Cutie, Velvet Underground, face to face, Radiohead, Damien Rice, Alanis Morisette, The Beatles, The Ramones, Tom Waits, The Pogues, John Prine, 806 Main Street, The White Stripes, Rollins, Portishead, The Postal Service, Norah Jones, The Little Willies, The Tossers, Vast, Sufjan Stevens, Flogging Molly, Te Kore, Horrorpops, Sleater-Kinney, Dropkick Murphys, The Raconteurs, The Strokes, The Shins, The decemberist ...just to name a few

Movies:

Television:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, X-Files, LOST, MST3K, wrestling and FuSE

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Books:

Charles Bukoski, Chuck Palahniuk, H.P. Lovecraft, Hunter S. Thompson, Max Brooks, Steve Niles and Edgar Allen Poe

My Blog

MoviesMoviesMovies

What was the last good movie you watched? Well, thanks to some friends I finally got to see MonsterSquad again! It was twice as great as I remember it and for those who dodn't kno this has been a movi...
Posted by J. Travis Grundon on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:24:00 PST

One of a Kind

Hello, I regret to inform that this blog is extremly personal because on December 6th my friend Rich passed away after a 3 year battle with cancer. I didn't find out about this until this past Fr...
Posted by J. Travis Grundon on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:55:00 PST

What's the 411?

Hello and alll that good stuff! I just wanted to jump on here and let my friends know that I have finally sent some of my work to www.411mania.com. For those of you who don't know this is a wel...
Posted by J. Travis Grundon on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:55:00 PST

Slay Bells Ring

To whom it may concern: Well, well, well X-Mas is in the air. Stores are packed, Radio sucks more than usual, and everything is covered in lights and bows! Then why am I still not ready? Funny s...
Posted by J. Travis Grundon on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:42:00 PST

Once Upon a Time in the Midwest

As you should all know femme fatle is out and we have just put the finishing touches on the next story for Silven Publishing. the next story is called "Once Upon a time in the Midwest" and is not like...
Posted by J. Travis Grundon on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 08:00:00 PST

here it is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Overview Previews Reviews Art Enhancements Price: FREE Click here to Download Silven Trumpeter Autumn 2006 - The Gen Con Issue Release Date: 2006-11-20Product ID: SPTv4i3Author: VariousCov...
Posted by J. Travis Grundon on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 05:59:00 PST

Releasing Free Massive Edition of Trumpeter

Silven Publishing is Releasing Free Massive 109 Page Edition of Trumpeter Silven Publishing is releasing the largest issue in the four year history of the Trumpeter. Featuring publisher exposés,...
Posted by J. Travis Grundon on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 05:43:00 PST

numb

As I'm sure some of you may have noticed. Silven Publishing is still dragging their feet on the Fall issue of the magazine. While they have taken an interest in my 2nd story I am really wondering if t...
Posted by J. Travis Grundon on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:08:00 PST

hmmmm

Well much to my surprise it looks like Silven Publishing is goping to pick up the 2nd story I sent them when I sent the Femme Fatal (that they have yet to print.) I received this email from them ...
Posted by J. Travis Grundon on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 04:57:00 PST

Another year older and another day of waiting.

Well I gues the best place to start this would be to thank everyone who remembered my birthday. This year was nothing fantastic just another year older. All I really did was get in the car and d...
Posted by J. Travis Grundon on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:44:00 PST