September 2003

What an amazing summer (capped off by one of the best family vacations we’ve ever taken).

I had the opportunity to meet and hear from so many new people while promoting both James Dean Died Here and Roadside Baseball. The reviews were good (see press quotes here), JDDH was a BookSense 76 pick for August/September and was even the basis of an ongoing summer feature on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. (Hear part of it here:

http://discover.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.jhtml?prgId=2&prgDate=June/14/2003

Thanks to hosts like Ira Fistell, Joe Franklin, Jay Kugelman and Mancow among others for having me on their shows—also I had the privilege of appearing with the great Diana Nyad on The Savvy Traveler radio program recently and you can hear the piece here:

http://www.savvytraveler.org/show/rundowns/2003/20030829/
rd20030829.shtml#dean

A new mystery photo will be added in just a couple of days—you can still enter a guess for a free signed book on the one that’s there now. A new photo slide show will be up in just a few days too--and please check out last year's End of Summer poem in ESSAYS.

Happy to announce that I am in the midst of writing/photographing the sequel to James Dean Died Here, due next spring. Details will be posted here as stuff happens.

Thank you all, once again, for all of the support and interest. I am indebted.