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Massillon Public Library Author Book Fair

Was on Saturday, March 23, 2024, from 11am-2pm.
Massillon Public Library
208 Lincoln Way East
Massillon, OH 44646
A great event! Thanks for coming out!



Mid-Ohio Indie Author Book Expo

Sunday, August 10, 2024, 12-4:30pm
Mid-Ohio Food Collective
3960 Brookham Drive
Grove City, OH 43123

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2024 North Coast Indie Author Book Expo

Sunday, September 24, 2023, 1-5pm
Emerald Event Center at Residence Inn at Marriott - Avon, OH
33040 Just Imagine Drive
Avon, OH 44011

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My New Blog- Some musings on a variety of topics. - The image is of a large room in a museum with twenty-two-foot-tall high ceilings, sand colored walls with enormous paintings of David's book covers on the walls. There is a strong sense of perspective showing the large scale of the room. The book covers are about fifteen-foot-tall each. From left to right- Trolls and Other Trouble cover, Prophecies and Other Problems cover, a portrait of David smiling, a statute of a bronze woman bent slightly at her waist, Dark Elf Danger cover, a 3D statute of a two-legged assault mech, on the right side is from the back forward, The War Within cover, The Fall of Heaven cover images.

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The cover for the novel The Fall of Heaven. The background of the cover image is that of space. A large, bright blue planet fills three quarters of the image, glowing in the darkness. Red flames streak across the lower half of the image. The title, THE FALL OF HEAVEN, is in stout, blocky letters with strong white strokes defining the letters, and the interior color is a transparent black that lets the viewer see the flames and planet behind them. The words Book One in the Newcastle Saga and David S. Grunwell are the remaining text.

The Fall of Heaven

Science Fiction, Action, Adventure, intrigue, war, robots, colony planet, assassins
Book One in the Newcastle Saga

The beautiful blue planet of New Jerusalem is home to the wonderous megacity of Heavensport, “the place where dreams come true.” For Rolland Newcastle, that dream is not to die.

Rolland inherited his troubles from his ancestors, the legal owners of New Jerusalem. After cryrosleeping for 223 years, they found that technological advances had allowed squatters’ ships to make the journey in just 3.5 years.

Arriving 200 years later, they found an established world that didn’t want them. The Fall of Heaven was just the start.

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The cover for the novel The War Within. The background scene is an underground hallway with metal, gray-blue walls and a drop ceiling. The floor is dark and shiny, and the forced perspective is strong, creating a dark line where the ceiling and walls meet creating a strong sideways V-shape from the top right corner of the book to the left lower-third of the cover. The lights are dim creating a lonely and moody feel. A blast of flames are shooting in from the left and lower half of the image. On the wall to the right, there is a rough elliptical hole smashed through it. A giant woman, who is staring intently through strands of long straight hair at the viewer. The eye has an intense, yet bored look of a predator. The text on the page from the top down, in smaller type The biggest problems may come from inside. The large blocky title font THE WAR WITHIN, then Book Two of the Newcastle Saga, and David S. Grunwell.

The War Within

Science Fiction, Action, Adventure, intrigue, war, robots, colony planet, assassins
Book Two in the Newcastle Saga

Miles deep in the Great Solomon Mines, a covert meeting is taking place that could determine the fate of New Jerusalem and maybe the known universe. A mysterious leader and his cadre of deadly assassins arrive to change the balance of power. If they are allowed to escape, there will be hell to pay. Thrown into war, will New Jerusalem survive where beauty is at the core of the problem?

Rolland’s troubles may have started with the Fall of Heaven. This time there is The War Within.

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The cover for the novel Trolls and Other Trouble. The background of the cover image is that of narrow pathway winding through the rocky cliffs of a mountain with misty gray-white skies coming down from the top right to the lower left. The rough rocks are a reddish purple and those on the right have some green vegetation. Peeking up to almost halfway up the cover is a dreaded goblin scout in his sun blanket made up of heavy mottled green camouflage. Two angry eyes peer out, and one can make out the lower quarter of the green and purple face, with its boar-like tusks, its long, pointed nose and the tiny, sharp teeth that poke out of a thick lower purple red lip. The text on the book reads – Ruferto Basaretti No. 1, Trolls and Other Trouble, and David S. Grunwell. The word Trolls is shiny like gold, but it has been marred, beaten, and cut. Trouble is gold but with no bruising. Most of the other type is white with a strong, black outline.

Trolls and Other Trouble

"Best series ever! It's my guilty pleasure when I'm supposed to be doing something else. Like sleeping.”

The Adventures of Ruferto Basaretti - Number One

In the northern dell of Nöstervalley, visitors are rare, but two large and hungry trolls have come down from the mountains to feast. This startling event launches Ruferto Basaretti on an impossible journey full of peril, intrigue, and chaos stretching across much of the changing world.

This world was once ruled by technologically advanced races. To their great annoyance, the era of the humans is at hand, and they see humans as barely more acceptable than goblins. Choosing avoidance has many humans believing the elder races are fanciful stories designed to scare children into behaving.

Some ancient races do walk among human society. Some do it for profit; some because they believe the plague of humanity should be brought to a bloody end.

Meeting between cultures can bring about unexpected cascading change.

This is such a story.

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The cover for the novel Prophecies and Other Problems. The scene of the image is set high up in the mountains. Mist flows through the lower dells, and gray blue mountains in the far distance fill two-thirds of the view. These mountains become stronger, more vivid hues of blues and greens as they approach the right side. In the crystalline blue skies, a fearsome red dragon is charging the viewer; its bat-like wings are held wide. It is so massive and close that all we can see is its head, scaly torso, and part of its left wing stretching across the image from left to right. The dragon’s mouth is open baring its sharp yellow teeth in a roar. Six horns adorn its broad angry head, and it has lowered its massive legs to grab. The text, Ruferto Basaretti No. 2, Prophecies and Other Problems, David S. Grunwell. Prophecies and Problems are made of shiny, beveled gold. Most of the other type is white with a strong, black outline.

Prophecies and Other Problems

“This series just keeps getting better and more exciting! I keep sneaking off to read more!”

The Adventures of Ruferto Basaretti - Number Two

A princess in peril, a prophesy, sea hags, sea goons, goblins, the army of the undead, and the angry king of the red dragons are a few of the problems that Ruferto Basaretti and Bert Kronk run into on their wild adventure that takes them across the known world.

Will they have what it takes to survive? Well, of course they do, there is a third book in this series.


This world was once ruled by technologically advanced races. Many humans believe the elder races are fanciful stories designed to scare children into behaving.

Some ancient races do walk among humans. Some do it because they believe the plague of humanity should be brought to a bloody end.

Travel can bring about enjoyable and gentle change.

This is not that story.

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The cover for the novel Dark Elf Danger. A beautiful elven woman with silver-white hair, pale skin, full blood red lips, and shockingly blue eyes is staring intensely, just to the left of the viewer. She is wearing black bustier armor and shoulder guards that has blueish highlights, and organic gold detailing. She has on a gold torque that spirals like a snake draped around her slender neck. The highlights on her skin move from cold blue shades on the right side of the image to hot colors as if a fire was lighting her from the left. Her skin has freckles and there is a subtle patchiness to her skin tone, especially near her lips. Her arms and upper chest have no armor. The background scene is a murky, blue-green mix of strong metal bars and stone walls. Text on the image – Ruferto Basaretti No. 3, Dark Elf Danger, and David S. Grunwell. Dark Elf Danger is in a shiny, beveled, gold font. The other text is white with a dark black outline.

Dark Elf Danger

“I love Bert and Ruferto! I want to hang out with them and Narda!”

The Adventures of Ruferto Basaretti - Number Three

Menacing flying black ships are attacking the kingdom of Báthan! Ruferto and Bert are caught up in another adventure that flings them across the globe. Dark elves are just one of the many foes that would love to see them dead.

Once again, Ruferto and Bert prove that the advanced elder races are NOT just stories designed to scare children. They also scare adults.

Ancient races walk among mankind; a few for nefarious reasons, and one, because he has some good human friends, and for the food.

Travel often comes with trouble. With Bert and Ruferto, that usually ends up with things blowing up spectacularly, followed by more treats.

This IS that kind of story.

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About the Author

I love to write. There are always dialogues and adventures going through my mind, asking to be told.


In my process, I tend to create mayhem and then try to figure out some plausible, fun, and unique way for the characters to escape. Readers are smart, so I avoid lengthy descriptions that slow the story.


I seek to make stories and characters that you like and think about months later. Good books end with you saying goodbye to friends.

Photo of David Grunwell on a blue background and wearing a suit with no tie. He is clean shaven with a broad chin, sharp nose, and thin lips. Dashing, witty, and daring, with twinkling blue . . . never mind, he wrote this. He is an older guy who writes.

David Grunwell