Tag Archives: heroes’ day
Team USA: The Leroy Chase Interview
(Excerpted from Heroes’ Day.) “. . . is it right to place such enormous expectations on our children’s shoulders, to drill them into perhaps expecting too much of themselves?” Leroy was shorter than Monica expected (five-eight, at the most), but no less animated … Continue reading
Heroes’ Day at Smashwords.com
In keeping with my continued efforts to bring my work into every household I can ruin, onto every e-book reader I can corrupt, I’ve slapped up Heroes’ Day over at Smashwords.com in a variety of e-book formats (HTML, JavaScript, Amazon … Continue reading
Two Heroes Share a Cute Moment
I was going over the e-book version of Heroes’ Day for Smashwords.com and re-discovered a cute little conversation between Monica and John: “You know how I can tell you’re a gymnast?” “How?” “You’re always just out of the shower.” Monica … Continue reading
Staying Hawt
Don’t confuse “hot” with “hawt”. The former merely implies physical appeal; the latter, though, means you’re both gorgeous and sassy and media-worthy and so on. It appears ex-Olympian Alicia Sacramone has, in her post-Beijing travels, become quite hawt. Well, she … Continue reading
Familiar Ground
One of the problems with new year’s resolutions is that the ones you make are usually the ones you break, and the ones you keep are the ones you never make in the first place. I was actually moving away … Continue reading
Drama in the Gym
A reader asked me about the various inspirations behind Heroes’ Day, and whether or not any of the book’s characters were based on real athletes. Short answer: no. Long answer: sort of. I like writing about underdog heroes, unlikely heroes. … Continue reading
The Heroes’ Day Companion
Demons, gymnasts, and treachery. That was the original premise for Heroes’ Day, back when it was just a 10,000 word short story titled, “For Little Girls Who Wish.” Now that the novel is complete and beginning its slow infiltration of … Continue reading
