Recently, one of my readers asked if I had drawn a map of the world in which Bruce and his friends live and travel. In fact, I have a few. The first one was drawn in a sketch book with pencil back when I needed a reference for the distance between Bruce’s home and the …

In pickleball, as in life, we can make it easy or we can make it tough. Reduced to its simplest components, the sport of pickleball consists of hitting a ball over a net using a paddle. Sure, there are rules about how you can hit the ball and where and when, but it’s a pretty …

  I drove to Albuquerque with my new friend and soon-to-be children’s author, Ellen, on Thursday, May 11, in hopes of selling lots of books. The drive wasn’t bad — about 7+ hours — and we were lucky enough to get a good rate at a hotel just across the street from the convention center …

When I visit students in schools or talk to readers of my Bruce and Friends series, one question I’m often asked is how I come up with the names for my characters. I don’t have a formula, although I have a few techniques or conventions I follow most of the time. Many of the names …

    Richard St. John’s Eight Secrets of Success   RichardStJohn_2005   ⬆Link to TED Video Talk Why do people succeed? Is it because they’re smart? Or are they just lucky? Neither. Analyst Richard St. John condenses years of interviews into an unmissable 3-minute slideshow on the real secrets of success. A self-described average guy …

[Note: I've decided to label my posts as to whether they pertain to pickleball or my Bruce series children's books. I have a divided audience, with some crossovers, and some of you are only interested in one type of post or the other. Now you'll know right off which type of post it is. Hope …

The truck arrived today with a shipment of 22 boxes of The Art of Pickleball, Fourth Edition! I’m excited to finally have these to sell again. If you’ve been waiting to get an autographed copy: send me an email along with your online order from either this website or from www.TwoCatsPress.com, and I’ll personalize books …

Hi everyone, and a special welcome to my new subscribers. Thanks so much for joining with me on my writing journey. I wanted to take a moment to let you know what’s happening with current writing projects. PICKLEBALL: I finished the revision to the 4th edition of The Art of Pickleball a while ago. The file …