Apr 29, 2005

Author Hits One "Out of the Park" With Dream Season

Lincoln, NE - March 10, 2005 - For many of us, it's difficult to recall a time when baseball was about more than million-dollar contracts and individual statistics. That's not the case for author E Dee Merriken, who tells the remarkable and heartwarming story of early Los Angeles baseball and her grandfather, Walter Settle in the novel Dream Season. An exciting mix of baseball and history, Dream Season parallels the struggles of Walter Settle, a young pitcher born into a devout Methodist family, with the struggles of an emerging new town, Norwalk,...

Apr 12, 2005

Self-Publishing Gaining Mainstream Acceptance

The Beacon Journal reports how author Nicole Hunter overcame the publishing hurdle by turning to iUniverse as her book publisher. ...she "couldn't get past the query stage" with her novel Waiting for the World to End. After taking six years to write the book, Hunter didn't want to spend more time looking for an agent and reading rejection letters...