Book Notes

Safe at Home:  A Season in the Valley continues to gain recognition, I am happy to say.  Yesterday, a very complimentary article about the book, written by Tiffany Arnold, was published in Hagerstown's Herald-Mail which you can read by clicking here.  Safe at Home was also highlighted in the Winona Currents, the alumni magazine for Winona University, Mo Weber's alma mater.  Click here for that write up.

On Saturday, I participated in Reading Celebration Day at the Valley Mall in Hagerstown.  Many local authors gathered to display and sell books and, as writers are wont to do spent a great deal of time conversing with one another.  One of my former students, Shawn Stout was there with her children's book Fiona Finkelstein Meets Her Match!!  If you're the parent or grandparent of a young child, I encourage you to visit Shawn's website which is cute and fun and buy a book!

I also discovered that my neighbor, Stephanie Corum is a free-lance writer.  All this time we've seen each other out mowing and had no idea that we were each working on the next article in our heads as we rode 'round and 'round in our respective yards!  Seems as if writing, like baseball, is a very small world indeed.

That's the latest on Safe at Home.  On Wednesday, I will once again post some incredibly witty observation or a unique insight into baseball or a sharply honed review of something or another.  Or, since I've now discovered the Paint program on the computer, as faithful readers have seen lately, and if the Orioles keep winning, I might just draw an orange and black smiley face and post that.  You never know.  That's why you have to keep coming back.

Comments

[Sjcorum]

Hey Austin. Great minds think alike! I wrote my blog post this morning and then wanted to link to your site. Low and behold you had written about a similar topic. Too funny. FYI...my site is www.theridingwriter.com. Good luck with your book!

[Austin]

Hi Steph! Great minds indeed. Of course, this great mind typed your last name incorrectly, but that's been fixed.