Today, I thought I'd post something a little different. Many authors choose to stick to the same genre. Over the course of the summer, we've read several of those authors: Levine writes Fantasy and Korman writes realist comedy. Mike Lupica however writes sports novels. A LOT of sports novels --except for Hero. It's his first trip down fantasy lane, and his success in the endenvor is kind of up to the reader.
For the most part, I think Hero is reading a lot like one of his sports novels...which is both good and bad. Don't me wrong: I actually really like sports novels (Slot Machine and Ice Man by Chris Lynch are two of my favorites), but I think Lupica is missing something when it comes to his fantasy novel.
Sports fans might actually recognize Mike from Sports Report on ESPN. He writes a weekly sports column for the NY Daily News, which you can read online and has been at the Daily News since he was 23 --in 1977. He has co-written autobiographies with sports stars Reggie Jackson and Bill Parcells. When he isn't writing, he coaches a Little League teams: basektball, baseball, and soccer for his kids --3 boys and a girl.
You can check out other stuff about Mike on his website.
If you're interested in Mike's sports fiction, someone uploaded a portion of the audiobook for Heat on YouTube.
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