Okay - forgive me for overloading you with new stuff, but that’s how it is in the fall.
POP hits the shelves tomorrow, and I’m really psyched about it.
If you’ve ever seen me, I’m on the skinny side – 165 pounds, not a stick figure, exactly, but definitely not the kind of physique you immediately associate with a monster on the football field.
So why write about the “pop,” the crunch of gridiron contact at the professional level? Any true world-class pop would probably land me in intensive care.
Well, for starters, I’m a fan (Go Giants). But there’s a darker side to football – the terrible toll the sport exacts on some of the athletes who play it at the highest level. And that gave me the idea to write about the oddball friendship between Marcus Jordan, sixteen-year-old quarterback, and Charlie Popovich, the NFL’s King of Pop. As the new kid in town, Marcus thinks he’s hit the jackpot when he gets the chance to work out with Charlie, the greatest football player he’s ever seen. But there’s a secret about the NFL veteran that his family is desperate to hide.
It was an eye-opening book for a football fan to write. This fall, I’ll watch the games twice as eagerly as before. But I’ll also wonder at those bone-jarring collisions that make the sport so exciting … what’s going on deep inside?
I hope you enjoy POP. And for those of you who aren’t totally burned out on new books, remember that ZOOBREAK - the SWINDLE sequel - will be coming a week later, on September 1st.
Really looking forward to this book! Hockey is more my forte, but I still find Football interesting and always try to catch the Super bowl. The teaser on the site has me wanting to grab a book and continue reading as soon as I can!!