Three Links for a Friday

The round-robin interview with baseball authors continues at The Happy Nappy Bookseller‘s blog. In my efforts to keep the public aware of the stupidity of doing as my hero does in Mamba Point, here is a story about the high cost of keeping poisonous snakes as pets, even when nobody gets bit.  I don’t like just [...]

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In Which the Author Sets the Table

“The Happy Nappy Bookseller” blog invited me and eight other authors of youth baseball novels to a few innings of exhibition ball… which is to say, we all answer a series of questions about writing and baseball, inspired by our books. Every few days she’ll post a new question and our answers. It’s an all-star [...]

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Another Conversation

I’ve been feeling kind of interviewy lately, and have been on both sides of the microphone. Yesterday I took the A side with Carl doing the Q over at BoyLit.com, a new blog to talk about boys and reading. Boys don’t read as much as girls, as you probably know, and the book blogosphere is [...]

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Interview with Swati Avasthi

If you’ve paid any attention to my blog interviews, you’ve noticed they’ve all been with dudes. That’s because I’m inclined to talk about “boy books,” here, and also because most of the women I’ve invited have complained about the beer bottles and pizza boxes everwhere and the constant sports on the big TVs. However, I’m [...]

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Talking to James Preller

I’ve blogged before about James Preller, author of Six Innings, which is as lovely a baseball book for kids as you’ll find, and the gritty story of middle school wolf pack politics, Bystander. I recently visited him in the New York tropics. The conversation is here. He goes above and beyond in his interviews. There’s photo [...]

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Interview with Josh Berk

I haven’t done an interview for a while, and thought it was nigh time I did. So here in the blog is Josh Berk, author of The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin, which launches this week from Knopf Books for Young Readers and has already been given a smattering of stars by reviewers. This is Josh’s [...]

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In Which the Author Catches a Wave

Recently Google introduced a new chat/email thing called "Wave," that was really cool for a few minutes because you had to get invited to join, which made it like one of those hot clubs you see on TV with a long line of people and a bouncer who checks to see if you’re on the [...]

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James Preller on Bystander

Once again I revert to my book blogger days so I can talk about James Preller’s Bystander, published this year by Feiwel and Friends. Google alerted me to Jim Preller’s work when somebody mentioned Mudville on his blog. I started following along, especially after I read his beautiful baseball novel Six Innings. And what do [...]

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BTR Conversations LIVE! Interview

You can listen to my interview with C. A. Webb of Blog Talk Radio: Coversations LIVE! here. Cyrus asked some really great questions, and seems to have really liked the book. During the interview Cyrus mentions Ballin’ With Books, a virtual book club all about sports-themed books. One more for the aggregator!

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Random Roundup

I had a very interesting day that I’m too tired to blog about, but wanted to get a few Mudville things posted before I forget (I’m sure I’ve forgotten others, or simply not found them). First, a store owner at Learning Express in San Antonio was nice enough to send me this photo of their [...]

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