During my recent swing through Western New York, I was honored to moderate a conversation on Facebook Live with Dr. Kara Kelly and Dr. Martin Brecher of the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. Our topic was advances in pediatric cancer.
The science has come a long way in the half century since my brother was first diagnosed with Read More
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Going 'Facebook Live' at Roswell Park
Final cover for Cancer Crossings
Thanks to Ken Burns for endorsing Cancer Crossings: A Brother, His Doctors and the Quest to Cure Childhood Leukemia.
He says, "For as long as I have followed his work, Tim Wendel has always chosen a distinct path of intimate stories within big topics, those subjects revealed by his superb way of getting at Read More
We have a cover for Cancer Crossings
Thanks to the good people at Cornell Press, especially designer Scott Levine, for this great cover for Cancer Crossings: A Brother, His Doctors and the Quest to Cure Childhood Leukemia. I love how it pops.
To go along with it, I recently received a gracious endorsement from filmmaker Ken Burns: "For as long as Read More
Audio rights for Cancer Crossings sold to Blackstone
Since January, I've been working with a voice coach, improving my delivery for the classroom at Johns Hopkins and with an eye on the next book tour. It's been fun to take on some commercials, animation and narration. Learning how to vary the pitch, cadence, dare say the feeling of what I'm saying.
In the course of the lessons, with the amazing Mark Neely, I realized the audio for several of my books (Red Rain, Night on Manitou Island, Down to the Last Pitch) has yet to be done. I think I'm now going to tackle them myself.
Last week, I did a demo tape at Bias Studios in Springfield, Va., where Danny Gatton, Emmylou Harris and my friends Eddie From Ohio have cut albums. It was a bit unnerving to walk into Studio B and go through multiple takes of my scripts for commercials and narrations. But, all in all, it went pretty well.
Meanwhile, the good folks at Cornell Press, the publishers for Cancer Crossings: A Brother, His Doctors and the Quest to Cure Childhood Leukemia, sold the audio rights to the new book to Blackstone Audio.
In a nice twist, Blackstone is interested in having me do the narration for Cancer Crossings. At the very least, I have a quality demo to send their way. Read More
'Pipe shots'
Excerpt from Sports Night in CVille
Click here for a discussion about the magic of baseball from our evening at VA Festival for the Book in Charlottesville.
http://www.vabook.org/site13/slideshows/sports/