It’s Not A Baseball Book

One of the difficulties with being any kind of creative person in the digital age is trying to raise your voice loud enough to be heard among the constant barrage of noise we’re all confronted with on a daily basis. Especially when your creative product is not what the gatekeepers are looking for. You can’t buck a trend and you can’t color outside of the lines even a little if you’re hoping to be picked up by the mainstream. So before we dive in, thank you for taking a moment out of your day to check this page out.

A Long Walk Home is not trendy, and it certainly colors outside of the lines, but I’ve always loved books and stories that made me think and feel about the real world. I’m not big on escapism when I read (that’s what music is for), but I do strongly believe the written word’s power to make people view their world is greater than any of the other arts. That doesn’t make marketing the book any easier. So, here’s what A Long Walk Home is actually about:

It’s about being shoved into the world with a fictional vision of love and happiness without a decent foundation. When a child is taught that fiction is truth, villains are heroes, abuse is love, and violence is communication, they are left powerless to gain any sense of peace and ‘normalcy.’ That’s why, too many times the cycle just gets repeated. But having a glimpse of a happy peaceful life can sometimes be powerful enough to help the lost person in their lifelong journey toward happiness and harmony (with themselves and the world around them). That’s where the baseball character comes in. The game and the concept of the game teaches lessons that are sometimes not learned anywhere else. It’s not a baseball book, but without baseball the story would have ended much differently.    

A Long Walk Home is the story of a journey of self-growth and awareness. It’s a survivor’s journey about learning to manage the wounds of the past while consciously paving a new way into the future. Scars never truly heal, but there is hope.

I wrote this book with a deep hope that maybe someone – one person – will see themselves in this story and carry on in the calm knowledge that they are not alone, and that they are worthy. It’s not a baseball book, it’s a life book.