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Putting Ink to Book Contract Number Two
This time last year I signed my first book contract with my daughter by my side. I'm thrilled to share that we just put pen and ink to a contract with Ingram for book NUMBER TWO! At our spot on Main...
Elk River Books, Livingston Love and Doug Peacock
I'm still riding the high of Friday night in my old stompin' grounds of Livingston, Montana. So much love for the turnout at Elk River Books. When my good friend Dan Sullivan co-owner of Mustang Catering helped get my manuscript in front of the one and only Doug...
Grizzlies On My Mind Takes Yellowstone By Storm
It was so powerful to be back in the Map Room presenting at the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel on Thursday night. We had a massive turnout filling the room to capacity. I'm still buzzing from a very special weekend of presentations/signings. ~Michael W. Leach ...
Grizzlies On My Mind: Jackson Hole, Wyoming Style
Five generations of Wyoming roots planting amongst the Arrowleaf balsamroot under the tantalizing Tetons. Our time in Jackson Hole represented powerful medicine. I was so humbled, grateful and honored to share a reading and signing at one of my all time favorite...
Best Seller: Grizzlies On My Mind Hits #1
I'll let the pictures tell the story...
The Machismo, Misogynistic and Degrading Culture of the NFL
After reading the attached article Jiggle Tests, Dunk Tanks and Unpaid Labor on a friend’s Facebook page this morning, I opted to postpone my morning writing sesh where I strive to bang out words for the next book. Needless to say reading this piece got me all fired...
Reverence For Our Wild World: Religion and the Environment
I felt I simply had to share this Op-ed written by author and advocate Carl Safina This Planet Comes With Limits. This is without a doubt one of the most important opinion pieces I've read of late about population, growth mania, and our planet in peril. Some estimates...
Grizzlies On My Mind @ Tattered Cover: The Denver Book Launch Tour Schedule
After speaking to an audacious group of students from Longwood University, Virginia, during their annual Longwood@Yellowstone program I'm gearing up for my book launch in Denver this weekend. I'm still riding high after sharing a free-flowing, heartfelt, edgy and...
A Society Worthy of Our Daughters
It's pretty simple: we as men can’t tolerate talk that degrades women. I recently had to get edgy and a bit belligerent in the locker-room of my local gym. Three machismo young men in their early twenties were bantering back and forth talking a bunch of contrived and...
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