OT: Any new good book suggestions?

[KCRfan1]

Originally Posted by jerseygary

I'll toot my own horn and recommend my book "The League of Outsider Baseball". I illustrated, wrote it and am proud as heck of it. Came out in May and received better reviews than I could have ever asked for, which you can read HERE. ESPN called it "The most beautiful baseball book of the summer" and I've gotten really great responses at all the book signings I've done this year. And I just found out it was selected as one of the nine best baseball books of the year nominated for the Casey Award...

Congratulations on the book Gary! I know how hard the book market is as I was the Community Relations Manager for B&N in Palm Desert, CA back in 08-09. All book signings went through me, and I was very picky about who I did events for. With the press and signings you have received, it sounds like you have gem!

[mintacular]

"The card" by Michael O'Keefe is a page turner about the t206 wagner, very engaging book!

[jerseygary]

Originally Posted by KCRfan1

Congratulations on the book Gary! I know how hard the book market is as I was the Community Relations Manager for B&N in Palm Desert, CA back in 08-09. All book signings went through me, and I was very picky about who I did events for. With the press and signings you have received, it sounds like you have gem!

Thanks Lou - I was fortunate in that a manager in the Knoxville Barnes & Noble received a review copy and enjoyed it so much that he wrote a great review in the B&N internal newsletter. This led to the company really supporting my book. I drove down to Knoxville to do a signing and met a bunch of really great baseball people including the Knoxville Smokies mascot and the fellow who wrote the nice review of my book.

It's one thing to write/illustrate a book, but the real work is done by the people who like the book enough to support it and I've been very fortunate in that regard. I can't tell you how much fun it's been meeting people across the country and giving talks to groups about my book.