I’m going to take someof my own advice, and press pause on my blog for a few weeks this summer. Regular
postings will return in the fall. In the meantime, I’m pressing to meet
deadlines, will transition to other projects, and will hopefully spend some time
with my family while the sun is out, (as I encourage y’all to do, too).
Thanks to everyone for
reading this blog this year, particularly my top three commenters, Tobi, Yuri,
and Kaylee.
Much appreciated, all.
Welcome New Syndicates!
Welcome two new
syndicates to the Men Who Lead Well family.
Select essays of mine
will run at Patheos in a compilation
blog titled A FEW GROWN MEN
along with fellow writers James Pence, Rick Johnson, and Jonathan McKee.
Then, the good folks
at Art of Manliness (a truly
excellent e-zine), are set to run about one post a month of mine. See the first
essay HERE.
Exclusive Preview:
People have asked what I’ve been up to this past year.
It’s been a year of
literary collaborations, and I want to give you a quick preview of one of the exciting
books on the horizon.
VOICES OF THE PACIFIC
(Penguin/ Berkley Caliber, May 2013), by Adam Makos with Marcus Brotherton
Adam Makos (co-founder of Valor Studios) and I teamed up
this past year to develop the much-awaited oral history project featuring the
WWII Marines featured in the HBO miniseries The
Pacific.
These veterans—Marines who fought in the Pacific—are
national treasures. They endured unspeakable horrors, came home to America, and
more than sixty-seven years later are still alive today.
In this book you’ll experience the shock they felt as boys
when Pearl Harbor was bombed. You’ll feel the jolt of boot camp as civilian civility
is thrown out the window to turn boys into men. You’ll sail with them to the
island of Guadalcanal for their harrowing first battles as Marines as they
square off against a seasoned and vicious foe.
They’ll take you to Australia for a raucous R&R, then
back to the gunfire in the rainforests of Cape Gloucester, the coral ridges of
Peleliu, the black sands of Iwo Jima, and the mud of Okinawa.
In the end, they’ll bring you home, as they once returned,
triumphant, joyous, yet tormented by the loss of so many friends.
Watch for pre-order availability of VOICES OF THE PACIFIC in upcoming months.
Book is
slated for a May 2013 release.
Thanks again everybody. Leave a comment below and let me know anything you've liked or found helpful about this blog, or anything you'd like to see more of in upcoming posts.