The Jim Garraty Chronicles: A Hardcover, Finally

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© 2026 Alex Diaz-Granados

 A Hardcover, Finally

After a fair amount of wrestling with KDP’s settings, templates, and mysterious page‑count limits, The Jim Garraty Chronicles will soon be available as a hardcover. I had to change the trim size because the book crossed the 550‑page threshold, and that change forced me to rebuild the cover from scratch. Not exactly the smoothest process, but the end result looks surprisingly good.

The hardcover collects all four stories — Reunion, Reunion: Coda, Comings and Goings, and the bonus origin story, The Summer of Two Movies. Seeing them bound together on cream paper, with a proper spine and a clean layout, gives the whole project a sense of permanence I didn’t expect. It feels like the right way to present Jim Garraty’s early years.

For the author photo, I went with a picture from my college days, taken when I received a journalism award. It seemed fitting to use an image from the time when writing first became part of my identity.

The hardcover is priced at $29.99. I don’t expect a crowd of buyers — this edition is mostly for me, and maybe a few friends who’ve followed Jim’s story over the years. But I’m glad I made it. Sometimes you publish something simply because it feels good to finish it and put it into the world.

This one does.

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