NOVELIST • MEDIA FOUNDER • PODCAST HOST
Author of The Gristmill
Stories about work, ambition, relationships, and what happens when the life you’ve built stops being the life you want.
FEATURED NOVEL
The Gristmill
He built a career that he once only dreamed of. Now, he has to decide what it’s worth.
At forty-nine, Zach Adler has mastered the game he’s spent decades playing. He’s a top-performing enterprise software salesperson with a carefully engineered path to retirement and a goal that he has come to equate with freedom.
Then the rules start changing, and he begins questioning the choices he’s made, the success he’s chased, and what he actually wants the rest of his life to look like.
At its center is one deceptively simple question: how much is enough?
The Gristmill is a contemporary novel about work, ambition, money, love, and the choices we make in defining a successful life.
About Alex
Alex Gadd is a novelist, media entrepreneur, podcast host, musician, and longtime enterprise software sales and customer-success leader.
He is the founder and president of World Highway Media and the creator and host of The Rock-N-Roll Show Podcast. After more than twenty-five years in technology, sales, customer success, and leadership, he drew on that world—and his lifelong connection to music—to write his first novel, The Gristmill.
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The Rock-N-Roll Show Podcast
Music Worth Talking About.
Alex is the creator and host of The Rock-N-Roll Show Podcast, a World Highway Media production built around music, stories, and the experiences that stay with us.
Writing
Long before The Gristmill, Alex was writing about music, culture, and the things that interest him. Explore essays from the archive along with new writing about music, work, creativity, and life.
- First Album, First SongIf you’ve read my blog, you already know that I am a HUGE fan of Guns N’ Roses’ debut album… Read more: First Album, First Song
- The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club BandBefore I was a fully formed individual with my own music tastes, I loved the Beatles. It seems less obvious… Read more: The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Alice Cooper – Love It to Death(Album ©1971, Warner Bros. Records) Alice Cooper was a band out of Phoenix that evolved slowly through the mid to… Read more: Alice Cooper – Love It to Death
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