Getting Crowded, Getting Press
Monday, July 21st, 2008 Posted in Six Innings | No Comments »Okay, people, you are all going to have to take a step back -- squeeze in, please -- we've got to make room in the blogosphere for one more author. I know it's tight, but I'm pretty sure this ...
Fan Mail Wednesday #7
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 Posted in Fan Mail, Six Innings | No Comments »The Irish have an expression, "Flowers for the living." Basically: You don't have to wait for somebody to die before you say something nice about him, or her. It's nice to be on the receiving end of the sentiment. Here's ...
A Day in the Life
Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in Jigsaw Jones, Music, Six Innings | No Comments »I just read about this in Rolling Stone and had to track it down on youtube. For the first time ever, Paul McCartney played the song "A Day in the LIfe" live in concert. It was especially significant because that's ...
Fathers & Sons & Baseball
Thursday, July 10th, 2008 Posted in Six Innings | No Comments »Fathers and sons and baseball. You can almost hear the violins, the sap rising from the roots. It's a tired cliche, of course, but that doesn't render the dynamic meaningless. My father wasn't a sports guy; I can't remember him ever ...
Six Innings featured on Good Morning, America
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in Six Innings | No Comments »Six Innings was recently featured on the television program, "Good Morning, America." My publisher obtained a clip of that, though it's only the part where she -- I don't know her name, but I'd like to hug her! -- recommends ...
A Child With Cancer
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Six Innings | No Comments »I think when you’ve had a child with cancer, as I have, certain things always make you cry. Forever after, you are prone to bouts of blubbering. Memories, little acts that touched you, stick into your heart and remain stuck ...
Nice Review
Monday, June 23rd, 2008 Posted in Six Innings | No Comments »Just passing along a nice review for Six Innings that I found on the web today at a cool site dedicated to children's books. With nice comments like this, I'm worried that my head might explode. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEw5BiCa6EA] My reaction after finishing this ...
Good Company
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in Six Innings | No Comments »A while back I heard from a librarian named Nan Hoekstra, who liked my book, Six Innings. She told me about her blog, anokaberry, where she writes about her favorite children's books. I recently found the time to check it ...
Jimmy Valvano: ESPY Awards Speech1993
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 Posted in Six Innings | No Comments »In Six Innings (p.116), I made a special point to reference one of my favorite speeches ever, the great Jimmy Valvano -- basketball coach and cancer victim -- at the 1993 ESPY Awards. It's a little long, almost ten minutes, ...
New York Times Book Review!
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Six Innings | No Comments »Yesterday was a big day for me, because Six Innings was reviewed in the Sunday New York Times Book Review by Lisa Von Drasek. By the way, isn't that a great name? Lisa Von Drasek. I immediately think of vampires ...