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 ...
Happy & Nappy
Friday, May 30th, 2008 Posted in Six Innings | No Comments »I received a nice email yesterday from a woman named Doret C, a baseball fan and bookseller from Atlanta, who writes a blog called TheHappyNappyBookseller. She wrote a review for Six Innings which you can read in full by clicking ...
Fan Mail Wednesday #2
Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Posted in Fan Mail, Six Innings | No Comments »In what I hope will become a recurring feature -- Fan Mail Wednesday! -- I'll take comments and questions from actual fan mail and include my responses here. Aundrea S. writes via email: Dear James Preller, Hi, well I thought that your book ...
Remembering Craig
Monday, May 12th, 2008 Posted in Six Innings | No Comments »I often fill my books with little in-jokes, things that few people (if any) will notice. I guess that’s true of most writers. After I worked for a long time on individual character sketches, it came time to construct the ...
Experiment: Adding Art
Monday, May 12th, 2008 Posted in Six Innings | No Comments »This is the cover of my newest book, Six Innings. But basically, I'm just messing around with adding images. The art was done by a guy named Chris Sheban, who also did covers for Because of Winn-Dixie, The Tiger Rising (both by ...