Tom Swift Writer’s Notebook

I will be a guest on the ArtZany! radio show at 9:05 a.m. tomorrow (Friday) on KYMN 1080-AM. ArtZany! is a unique show hosted by Paula Granquist that features artists, musicians and writers. Ms. Granquist and I will discuss the process of writing “Chief Bender’s Burden” specifically and the craft of writing nonfiction generally. There [...]

If you’re in the neighborhood and can tear yourself away from American Idol, I hope you will stop by Monkey See-Monkey Read tomorrow (Thursday) night.
Starting at 7 p.m., I will read from and discuss “Chief Bender’s Burden” as attendees nibble on homemade cookies and sip from tasty beverages. After I finish talking and answering candy-induced [...]

Sometimes the mailbox contains more than utility bills and political propaganda. I just opened an envelope containing a happy note — a review of “Chief Bender’s Burden” from Wes Lukowsky of Booklist. Many libraries around the country rely on Booklist, published by the American Library Association, as they decide which books to add to their [...]

Check out the link while it’s still relevant, because surely this is the last time I will write these words: “Chief Bender’s Burden” has hit No. 1 on a bestseller list.

At the moment I am an author trying to persuade busy people to take time out of their lives to come to my readings. But usually I am on the other side — a reader in the audience. So often after an author speaks he or she offers to answer questions and everyone sits on [...]

I was sitting at the table the Minnesota Twins kindly offered inside Gate F, perhaps the main entry at the Metrodome, and I was ready. The table display included neatly stacked books, an oversized tabletop cover poster, a basket of old-time candy, and a pretty nifty electronic slideshow of Charles Bender-related images.
Books here! Get yer [...]

Many thanks to Twins Geek for posting that article I mentioned the other day.

As mentioned a time or two around this site, I’ll start peddling books in person this weekend with two events you might want to check out if you don’t have a better option.
Signing: Minnesota Twins Game
About 25,000 of my closest friends and I will be at the Metrodome before and during the Minnesota Twins-Kansas City [...]

If Charles Bender was interested in a subject, he learned everything there was to learn about it. He essentially taught himself how to pitch a baseball at a Hall of Fame level. But baseball wasn’t his only passion. He also applied his curious mind to an incredible number of hobbies and sports — often with [...]

The Cleveland Free Times just published a cover story that seems oddly familiar.

GameDay, the popular independent program and scorecard sold outside the Metrodome before Minnesota Twins games, was kind enough to ask me to do a Q&A for its April issue. So you can read the piece — and a magazine full of unfiltered information about the hometown team — at any game you go to this [...]