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The Insider Michele Greppi Grossman's Book EXecUtive Actions Gary Grossman's first novel, "Executive Actions," will be followed in October 2005 by a sequel. "Executive Actions" is being shopped by Endeavor (Mr. Grossman's theatrical reps) and BroadThink (his literary reps) as a potential film. "Action" has been so warmly received that mystery/crime best seller writer Edna Buchanan offered a blurb for the paperback edition, which is due out in August. So it's about time that Mr. Grossman-one half of L.A.-based Weller/Grossman Productions, the source of thousands of hours of TV programming including two of The Insider's all-time favorite HGTV shows, "Simply Quilts" and "The Carol Duvall Show"-got some book party "Action" in New York. And that's just what's going to happen at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 10 at the Kips Bay Borders, which is so close to The Insider's Manhattan apartment that even she, the congenitally anti-ambulatory personality, will feel pressured to walk home afterward, not hail a cab or hop a bus. Over coffee on a recent trip to New York with co-founding partner Robb Weller, Mr. Grossman recalled how being in New York on 9/11 inspired him to write the heavily researched political thriller - at the pace of two pages a day-that "ultimately is about our relationship with the Middle East. "I don't club anyone over the head with it," Mr. Grossman said. The Insider is relieved. At 519 pages, such "Actions" could do some damage. |