Serendipities

1. In the summer of 2004 I was watching the Little League World Series to get inspiration for my work in progress, which was bout a catcher named Roy and a pitcher named Sturgis Nye. In one game a kid named Sturgeon struck out all but a few batters in a complete game shutout. He [...]

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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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The Soft Launch

Like Chuck said, Mudville is now in paperback. It officially went on sale today! So if you still haven’t read it, or you’ve been meaning to pick up an extra copy for a pal, now’s your chance to pop over to an independent bookstore and pick up a copy. You’ll probably also find it at Barnes & Noble [...]

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New Book Trailer for Mudville

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A Few Hard Words

Somebody recently found my blog by googling “mudville hard words,” which I guess was done to fill in a blank on a book report. I’m not a big fan of book reports, but it set me to thinking about how for me some words are inexorably linked with the books where I learned them. To [...]

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Happy first birthday Mudville!

One year ago today, my first novel was born. They grow up so fast, don’t they? Now it’s already talking and practically walking. Next thing you know it’ll be asking me for the car keys. Sniff. Its birthday present arrived two days early: a box of itself in paperback. It was extremely excited, but isn’t [...]

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Paperback Writer

Mudville the paperback will be released in four weeks. In many regards the paperback is exactly like the hardcover, with some important exceptions. 1. It’s smaller, lighter, cheaper, and more supple. 2. It’s got great review quotes slapped all over it. 3. It’s got a picture of a horse (the Yearling logo) instead of a [...]

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Blog Roundup, featuring Bertie twice

Here’s an actual blog round up, which I haven’t done in a while, but there was a minor flurry of activity last week. I visited the St. Michael, Minnesota middle school last week and met a bunch of cool kids and a very cool teacher, Jill Foltz, who blogged about it better than I could. [...]

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Bonus Up Your Holiday Gift

If you plan on giving a friend or loved one Mudville for Christmas or Hanukkah, a December birthday, New Years Day, Festivus, or anything else…. Just let me know. While supplies last, and within the U.S. only, I will send you a personalized bookplate so you can fancy up the book. Just use the contact [...]

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August Roundup

I’ve been a bit derelict in linking back to reviews of Mudville I find around the blogosphere, or at least the good ones, but a couple of recent highlights include Ms. Foltz’s review on the O.W.L. for YA blog and Max’s review on Minnesota Reads. I’m also honored to see that Mudville made Booklist’s list [...]

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