Bill G Morris

Grey Goddess: Your Journey Isn't over Until You Fly with the Grey Goddess Bill G Morris

Publisher Marketing: Grey Goddess takes you on a summer journey through the California world of surfing, sex, and finding lost spirit. "A true but comical depiction of the surfing lifestyle, Bill Morris has hit the lip with his book, Grey Goddess." --Skip Snead, Surfing magazine "Finally, a coherent fictional treatise on humankind's two most worthwhile obsessions: surfing and sex." --Scott Hulet, Editor, The Longboard Quarterly "Fun reading. Wish I was back in California and a few years younger!" --Dave Bowman, Seattle Times Grey Goddess is an underground hit in the world of California beach life and surfing, a novel that has received high praise around the world. It traces the strange spiritual journey of a man in crisis who meets a mystical goddess on the beach who guides him in his survival quest. A unique picture of California mysticism, surfing, spirit, and summer beaches, reviewers have applauded the book world over. This second edition release was originally published under the title "Stoked!" and sold out in surfing and sporting stores around the world. Take a strange journey toward spirit: "In my mind, I saw the young people I had come to know as I had begun this strange surfing thing. I smiled at the fun we'd had together. In my mind's eye I could clearly see each of them striving to catch waves. I sat on the rock, thinking about these battered young surfers. Geek, Monstro, Squirrel, Cowboy, Rude Kurt. Each had a vision, each an anger or history they were working out. But in surfing, their vision and anger were purified into charged spirit, inspiration, as they applied their skills to attempt beauty with the earth, to ride the wave in grace. Their efforts were toward joy. And they were stoked." Contributor Bio:  Morris, Bill G Bill Morris is a San Francisco Bay area writer and author of twelve books. One of Bill's books of which he is most proud is "Notes To a Five-Year-Old," a group of essays, fatherly observations, and advice written for his daughter when she was five. He has also published two additional books of family essays, "The Red Jacket," essays for his daughter about her mother who was lost to cancer, and "Good Morning, Ryan," a book of humor, insights, and vignettes of childhood for his second five-year-old daughter, Ryan Rosemary. His latest book, The Card Reader, is about a gypsy Tarot card reader who reads the fortunes of all who enter his shop in a human parade of the beautiful, the young, killers, poets, dancers, the rich, divorcees, and fools. Each reading has its risks and rewards, and one day a young actress enters his shop and he discovers her cards are also his own. Bill has published many magazine articles and written as a software columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. His first nonfiction books were mainly in the computer field and he's been an acquisitions editor with Hayden Book Company, a trade computer book publisher. His first novel, Grey Goddess, about California mysticism, surfing, and the search for lost spirit, received excellent reviews and praise around the world. Surfing magazine said, "A true but comical depiction of the surfing lifestyle, Bill Morris has hit the lip with his book Grey Goddess!" Grey Goddess has sold in surfing and water-related sports stores throughout the United States and abroad. Reviewers have compared it to Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Golf in the Kingdom, and even Siddartha.