Reading at Noe Valley Authors Festival

Hey y'all, I'll be a featured reader at the Noe Valley Authors Festival in San Francisco on Saturday, March 23. My 45–minute slot, during which I'll read from The Mighty Roman and discuss the book, begins at 3. Details—such as the venue—to come. Considering this is a week before the baseball season, the time is perfect for baseball lit. I'd love to see you there!

"Lawrence" Launched

First words of the novelization of popular short story "Lawrence" written yesterday—the dread Barrier of the Blank Screen, demolished. To good effect, I hope ...

Aliens.

The two sibs with the yellow–flecked, blue–green, almond/olive–shaped eyes and the smooth skin that was not Chen–yellow, Chavez–brown, Marino–dusk, or Chapman–pale, but a distinctly original blend of them all, with Walkingstick–red in the cheekbones .

Not illegal aliens, they didn’t meant that—at least, not in the lower grades—but Area 51. That Laurie’s head was egg–wide at the top didn’t help. Nor did it help that he widened his almond/olive–shaped, yellow–flecked, blue–green eyes in wonder at the everything that everyone else thought wondrous, and at many things that no one did.

The Flying Saucer Incident was no help either, establishing the boy as Room 2’s sacrificial oddball on his first day of kindergarten. This despite his big sister’s determined preparations to ease her little brother’s entry to school.

It was Mercy who had walked Laurie to school that first day. This seemed to parents and girl alike as a duty befitting a third grader long accustomed to being fawned over as precocious. In fact, the girl had skipped second grade, ...

Dec. 6, 2012 

"Boxers"—New Story

In this story adapted from the upcoming Trips `n' Trials of a Down, Beat Dad, middle–aged hipster Hammerhead Hirsch, The Pugilist Poet and Boardwalk Balladeer of limited Beat Era fame, struggles to raise his kid Scrap on his own. The story first ap

peared in New South, the print lit–mag of Georgia State University. Spoiler alert: this story does reveal the main plot points of Trips `n' Trials. Enjoy, friends! And "Like" on the book's page if you ... like.

Trips `n Trials—Chapter One

Here's Chris Corwin's brilliant cover design for the novel Trips `n' Trials of a Down, Beat Dad, the story of single middle–aged hipster dad Hammerhead Hirsch. 

Hipsters of the world unite!

Got it covered!

The brilliant Chris Corwin has completed the cover for Trips `n' Trials of a Down, Beat Dad. Here's the final result of our evolutionary process, and thanks for your input and support! …