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Upcoming Deadball Signing Events

By David Stinson on January 13, 2012

I have several signing events scheduled for the D.C . Metro area in the coming two weeks.

First is the 38th Annual Meeting of the SABR Bob Davids Chapter on Saturday January 28, 2012 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Rosslyn at Key Bridge, 1900 North Fort Myer Drive, Arlington VA. The meeting is open to SABR members and costs $30 per member or guest ($15 for students).

Second is a house party signing on Sunday January 29, 2012 in Bethesda, Maryland. If you are interested in attending the house party signing, please reply to this post and I will provide the details.

Third is the Huntington Park Publications launch party on Saturday February 25, 2012 at the Civic Building in Downtown Silver Spring, Maryland. See the separate post below for more details on that event.

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Post-Holiday Season Deadball Kindle Sales Picking Up

By David Stinson on January 6, 2012

And now it’s time for another installment of “Blowing My Own Horn.”

As part of my compulsive checking of top 10 lists, I noticed this afternoon (January 6th at 5:00 pm) that Deadball currently resides at Number 18 on Amazon.com’s list of “Top Sellers in Baseball” for Kindle. For posterity, here’s a screen grab as proof:

Amazon.com's Top Sellers in Baseball - Kindle.

Okay, that’s enough applause for now. Everyone please take your seats.

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Launch Party Featuring Deadball To Be Held In Downtown Silver Spring – UPDATED

By David Stinson on January 4, 2012

Huntington Park Publications will hold a launch party at the Civic Center in downtown Silver Spring from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 25, 2012, for my novel Deadball, A Metaphysical Baseball Novel. Also featured will be Honour, A Historical Golf Novel by Richard O’Connor. Please join us for this special event. The launch party is open to the general public. More details to come.

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Deadball Surges to No 1 on Amazon Kindle “Hot New Releases” in Baseball

By David Stinson on December 21, 2011

They say “you’re only as big as your last hit.” Well, as of 2:15 p.m. on December 21st, Deadball, A Metaphysical Baseball Novel is ranked No. 1 on the Amazon.com Kindle “Hot New Releases” for Baseball:

As I’ve mentioned in earlier posts, these lists are updated hourly so who knows how long Deadball will remain at No. 1. But at least I’ve got the screen grab to prove where Deadball, and I, have been.

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Deadball, A Metaphysical Baseball Novel Now Available on Kindle

By David Stinson on December 19, 2011

Deadball is now out on Kindle. Just in time for the last final, frantic buying days of the holiday season.

Here’s the link:

amazon.com/Deadball-Metaphysical-Baseball-Novel-ebook/dp/B006N34PCW/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1324298119&sr=8-3

After only three days on the market, it currently resides (as of 7:00 A.M. Monday December 19, 2011 (Happy Birthday Dad!)) at number 48 on the Kindle Best Sellers List for Baseball Books.

Amazon updates the list hourly so it’s anyone’s guess where it will reside at 8:00 A.M. today and beyond.

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Deadball – An Amazon Top 10 “Hot New Release In Sports Fiction”

By David Stinson on December 1, 2011

As a kid, my brother and I used to listen to Casey Kasem’s American Top 40 Sunday mornings on WPGC. Whether we heard the entire broadcast depended upon if our parents dragged us to the 8:00 mass, insuring that we were home in time for the 10:00 start time. Somewhere in my house are cassette tape copies of shows I recorded by placing a Radio Shack microphone next to the speaker of my Motorola AM/FM radio. Included among those tapes, undoubtedly, is the four-week stretch that Tony Orlando and Dawn’s Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree topped the charts in 1973. My brother and I kept waiting week after week for that song to be dethroned, unappreciative, as we were at the time, of that song’s brilliance.

Since then, I have had a thing for lists, whether they be ranking the top ten presidents of the United States or to the top 10 portable dehumidifiers (thank you Consumer Reports). So imagine my surprise when I learned today that after just one week in publication, Deadball was ranked (as of 12/1/11 at 4:00 pm EST) number 10 on Amazon.com’s list of “Hot New Releases In Sports Fiction.” Not sure how that happened, but I’ll take it.

The Screen Grab Goes To 11, But Deadball Is No. 10

It’s far too early to say where making this list ultimately will rank in my “Top 100 Deadball Moments,” but early indications suggest it is shooting up the charts, with a bullet.

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John Kelly’s Bumper

By David Stinson on November 29, 2011

Hello All:

Just wanted to take a moment to share with you what John Kelly of The Washington Post had to say about Deadball:

Deadball is about the magical intersection of memory and mystery, a place where the crack of the bat and the shouts of the crowd mingle with the bricks and mortar of vanished ballparks. It’s about trying to turn a double into a triple and about trying to turn a barely-held memory into a tangible artifact. Someone once said you can’t go home again. But you can. That’s the whole point of baseball, after all – and of David Stinson’s beguiling new novel.

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Deadball Arrives Five Years After Conception

By David Stinson on November 27, 2011

Hello All:

The story told in Deadball first came into focus the winter of 2003, during a drive from Chicago’s Midway Airport to Rock Island, Illinois. Working then for the Department of Justice, I was on my way to review Department of the Army documents for a case being litigated in the United States Court of Federal Claims. My traveling companion, agency counsel for the Army, was kind enough to listen to my concept for the book as we drove along I-88.

After leaving DOJ in October 2006 to be a stay-at-home dad (SAHD), I began work full time on the novel. By the spring of 2007, I had a first draft, the ending of the book having come to me the previous fall while waiting in the parking lot for my youngest son to finish soccer practice.

By the spring of 2010, many drafts and rewrites later, Deadball was, I felt, ready to publish. I was wrong, and for the next year, with the book continually crowning at about 9 cm, I labored to deliver the book for publication.

On November 23, 2011, Deadball arrived. I hope you will buy a copy of the book and read it. I encourage you to post a comment on this website, or a review on Amazon.com.

Please check back here for more blog postings.

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