Hello friends!
My next book, “Cardboard Knight,” is now available for preorder!
And if you’re a storytelling fan, this book might have a special appeal:
I took the stories I’ve been telling onstage for twenty years and gave them back to the boy who lived them.
The book is fiction, but if you know me and any of my stories, you’ll quickly realize that this book’s foundation is my childhood, altered at times for fictional purposes, but still very much me.
I think you’re really going to like it.
Preorders are enormously important to books. They help determine first run sizes, marketing and publicity spend, media attention, and more.
So if you’d consider preordering, it would mean the world to me.
A brief description of the novel:
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“Dear Mr. Henshaw” meets “Dead End in Norvelt” in this sharply humorous and nostalgic epistolary middle-grade debut from Matthew Dicks, about navigating life’s challenges and finding your place in the world.
Eleven-year-old Jack Mandeville’s life is complicated. Between dealing with his parents’ divorce and new (annoying) stepdad and looking after his siblings, a lot is changing as he heads into a new school year.
When Jack gets a school assignment to send letters to an astronaut, he realizes he’s writing to someone who isn’t weighed down by the same kind of earthly troubles. But as the year goes on and he keeps writing the letters, he discovers that perhaps ‘complicated’ isn’t such a bad thing. Maybe it’s what makes us all human.
Beloved Moth storyteller Matthew Dicks makes his middle-grade debut with this funny and heartfelt epistolary novel following a spectacular year in the life of an eleven-year-old growing up in the 1980s.
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So if you could preorder the book now and share the book and the preorder request with your friends, family, and enemies, I would be eternally grateful.
It’s a book originally written for adults, then transformed into something more appropriate for middle-grade humans, but it’s still completely appropriate in so many ways for adults, too.
And it’s set in the 1980s, so it’s full of nostalgia, too
So preorder now. Right this very second.
Please?
You can preorder at your favorite local bookstore, which is always a great choice, or you can preorder using any of these links below:
Preorder at Riverbend Books, my local, beloved indie bookstore, in West Hartford, CT
Preorder from my first favorite bookstore, RJ Julia in Madison, CT
Preorder from Amazon (if you must)
