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Eileen Granfors

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Eileen Granfors lives in Santa Clarita, California. A former army brat who was born in New Orleans and lived in Germany, she and her family settled in Imperial Beach, California, where her mother’s love of body surfing turned her into an avid surfer girl.

Eileen is a proud UCLA alumna. In July, she published her second novel, set in Imperial Beach, "Stairs of Sand."

“Stairs" is the novel I began six years ago, and all my other work has filtered around it. The plot of a mother and a daughter, both with borderline personalities, is full of conflicts and learning.

The youtube video gives you a good idea of what is going on in the novel.” Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SnDv4...

Her first novel, "Some Rivers End on the Day of the...more


We've been on vacation. Proofs of my work-in-progreess should have arrived while we were away. I am hoping for a June release.


While Pinata-Maker is related by character to SOME RIVERS END ON THE DAY OF THE DEAD, the book is late YA/women's fiction. Carmen Gracia Principia navigates her freshman year of college, finding her social life a bigger challenge than her classes. Getting involved with a... Read more of this blog post »
Average rating: 4.20 · 65 ratings · 44 reviews · 5 distinct works · Similar authors
Some Rivers End on the Day ...
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4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
Stairs of Sand
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
Sydney's Story
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions
Flash Warden and Other Stories
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2011
White Sheets
4.75 of 5 stars 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
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"Shades of Gray" (not 50 shades....sorry, no sex)

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Eileen said: Your books are the greatest! 50 shades, not so much!
"Interesting poll! My poetry books are nature-oriented, but my novels feature people on covers. e"
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“Something in the air this morning made me feel like flying. . . "

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“A few blossoms float into the room. They drop like frayed yellow ribbons on the gray carpet.”
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“Heavy as such things are
After the wordslide, the writing begins."

From "Word Quake”
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“Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.”
Mary Oliver

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Mary Oliver

“Whether you say you can or you can't, you're right.”
― Doug Worley

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