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Entries from April 30th, 2012

Kindle vs Nook

April 30th, 2012 · Comments Off · The Greatest Show on Dirt

There’s not much question the Kindle dominates the ebook world. As such, it wasn’t that tough of a decision to try KDP Select when I released The Greatest Show on Dirt in February. The program requires a 90-day exclusive commitment to the Kindle, after which an author can make their book available elsewhere. In exchange [...]

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‘Dirt’ now available at Regulator, Quail Ridge Books

April 23rd, 2012 · Comments Off · Reviews, The Greatest Show on Dirt

Ever since the Raleigh News & Observer writeup on me and the book ran a couple weeks back, there has been a growing buzz in the Triangle area in North Carolina. The Greatest Show on Dirt is now available in two local independent book stores: The Regulator Bookshop in Durham and Quail Ridge Books & [...]

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Q&A with the Raleigh News & Observer

April 8th, 2012 · Comments Off · Reviews, The Greatest Show on Dirt

The positive reviews in Tampa and Los Angeles were great and much appreciated, but today we have finally made inroads on Tobacco Road, with a piece appearing in this morning’s edition of the Raleigh News & Observer. N&O readers live in Bulls country, so this is big. One of two major papers in the Triangle [...]

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“Easy to imagine as being the starting point for a movie script” — Tom Hoffarth, Los Angeles Daily News

April 3rd, 2012 · Comments Off · Reviews, The Greatest Show on Dirt

This is the one I’ve been waiting on. Every April, Tom Hoffarth of the Los Angeles Daily News immerses himself in the world of baseball books, running a month-long feature called “30 baseball books in 30 days.” Not only did he include The Greatest Show on Dirt, he was kind enough not to torture me [...]

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