Grant MabryTHE NOVELS Start with Mikey

A NOVEL SERIES BY GRANT MABRY

The Long
Ordinary Good.

Mike Matthews knows how to tell a good story.
Living one is harder.

Discover the novels
CHARM. CONSEQUENCE. THE WORK OF BEING HUMAN.SCROLL TO EXPLORE
01 /THE LONG ORDINARY GOOD

A good story can
leave a great deal out.

A Texas accountant. A gift for winning people over. A past that never stays quite where he puts it.

From city-council campaigns to state politics and the unsettled world of 1990s Moscow, The Long Ordinary Good follows Mike Matthews through love, ambition, friendship, and the uncomfortable distance between being liked and doing right.

Funny. Intimate. Complicated. Like people.

THE NOVELS · IN READING ORDER

Start here.
Stay for the people.

Three published novels.
One life, seen from more than one angle.

Begin with Vote for Mikey, continue with The Gentleman from District 52, then return to the beginning of the story in Nothing Happens in Moscow.

READ IN SERIES ORDER

The story continues.

Four more books are written, with publication details to come.

SMALL ROOMS. BIG CONSEQUENCES.

The vote is public.
The reckoning is personal.

CEDAR PARKAUSTINMOSCOW

THE HOLLIS WEDDING WARS

Also by Grant Mabry, with Brook San Miguel

I Do It Better by Grant Mabry and Brook San Miguel, the illustrated teal cover

BOOK ONE

I Do It Better

Two brides, two Hollis brothers, and one coveted wedding date turn planning into a town-wide competition. A closed-door Texas romantic comedy about family, friendship, and learning when to stop keeping score.

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Till Points Do Us Part by Grant Mabry and Brook San Miguel, the illustrated navy cover

BOOK TWO

Till Points Do Us Part

Tessa wants a small wedding that finally feels like her own, but her mother and future mother-in-law have other ideas. With Wade’s mysterious surprise in the mix, keeping things simple may be her biggest challenge yet.

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THE SECOND WIND ADVENTURE CLUB

Also by Grant Mabry

The Great Kolache Run by Grant Mabry

BOOK ONE

The Great Kolache Run

The resident council of an assisted living community in the Texas Hill Country votes to have an adventure, and Reverend Tom wants just one thing: an apricot kolache from the town where he grew up.

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Blue Ribbon or Bust by Grant Mabry

BOOK TWO

Blue Ribbon or Bust

Winnie Pruitt won the county fair pie contest eleven years running. Now the council is entering the pie, the chili cook-off, and the Grand Parade in one weekend.

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Last Dance at the Gulf by Grant Mabry

BOOK THREE

Last Dance at the Gulf

Winnie wants to put her feet in the Gulf of Mexico one more time. The council has fourteen days, a new neighbor from New Jersey, and a bus that will never make it.

Coming soon

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02 /THE AUTHOR

THE VOICE BEHIND THE NOVELS

Grant Mabry

Grant Mabry writes comedies about serious things. He is the author of The Long Ordinary Good and The Second Wind Adventure Club, and lives in Central Texas.

The novels bring a comic eye to public life and an intimate one to the people living with its consequences. At their heart is a deceptively ordinary question: what does it take to become someone others can count on?

Meet Mike Matthews