An early peek at two more pages (133-134, Chapter 19) of Carrying Albert Home just for our Facebook, Twitter, and HomerHickam.com friends plus followers of this blog. A little background before we begin: Elsie has been kidnapped by a handsome whiskey-smuggling driver of North Carolina’s infamous Thunder Road. Homer has escaped the driver’s brothers and, […]
Linda is getting a distressingly large number of orders from readers for autographed and inscribed Carrying Albert Home novels which indicate they have misconceptions about the book. “Dear Linda,” they write, “I want to order Carrying Albert Home for little Johnny (or Susie). Please have Homer write something inspirational in it.” That’s a tough order for me to write to […]
It’s always fun to give readers a sneak peek at one of my upcoming novels, especially one I think may be among my very best work. Carrying Albert Home is a novel that is very near and dear to my heart. Some folks say it’s a prequel to Rocket Boys. I think maybe Rocket Boys in the future will be classified […]
I’m pleased to announce we have upgraded our website which you can now view at https://www.homerhickam.com! Why the change? Well, just to be completely forthcoming, Linda and I did not give up our old website easily. After all, we had put a lot of work in it over the years. But finally, we had to […]
It’s always interesting when an International publisher buys your book. In the case of Carrying Albert Home, world-wide publishers have been lining up in an unprecedented way. So it’s more than interesting this time. It’s exciting! Here’s an article on the HarperCollins approach to overseas publishers and why Carrying Albert Home is such a big hit there and elsewhere. […]