Ohioana 2018
What fun! I got to hear my table mate, Gary Buettner, make his pitch for a middle grade book about a girl caring for Dracula’s kitty. I made my own passionate case for a book about a foot race from … Continued
What fun! I got to hear my table mate, Gary Buettner, make his pitch for a middle grade book about a girl caring for Dracula’s kitty. I made my own passionate case for a book about a foot race from … Continued
The Goodnight Moon Room upstairs at the Blue Marble is small. I wasn’t worried about filling it. But a number of people had regretted at the last minute, and I was beginning to feel the onset of disappointment. To my … Continued
I made my first author visit this week: a presentation to the Wilson Elementary School Running Club. Imagine my surprise to find there were more than fifty young runners in attendance. Forest Hills sponsors its own 5K race in May which draws … Continued
Marathons are commonplace now, but one of the earliest 20th-century long-distance races was the multiday, coast-to-coast Transcontinental Foot Race, little known now but an event that captured the world’s imagination in 1928. The race began in Los Angeles and finished … Continued
The Great American Foot Race will be released on Tuesday, April 4, 2017. A signing event will take place at Blue Marble Books on Thursday, April 13, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. The store is located at 1356 S. Ft. … Continued
I received a surprise package on my fifty-third birthday: five ARC copies of The Great American Foot Race. ARC stands for Advance Reader Copy–advance because there may still be errors that need to be fixed before the final product reaches … Continued
Freelance writer and editor Deborah Kalb included The Great American Foot Race in her blog, Book Q&As. It is an honor to be included in a blog that has run continuously for five years, maintained by an editor and author as … Continued