Black Friday Offer—Get the Goose on a Train

Black Friday is almost here. Beat the crowds and get these two books checked off your to gift list now!

It’s more important for me to share my books with others than it is to make a profit off of them. That’s why I’m practically giving them away at cost in this Black Friday book bundle special.

Here’s the deal: a copy of Tracks: A Novel in Stories ($15.95 retail) and a copy of Flightless Goose ($15.95 retail) together for only $20 plus $2 shipping!

Order this Black Friday through Cyber Monday and I’ll even throw in a couple freebies: a train-themed pencil, key chain, coloring book, and/or kid’s tee-shirt.

If you would like your books signed or inscribed to yourself or the person you’re gifting to, please let me know and we’ll be happy to sign. I’ll sign Tracks and Flightless Goose, and the illustrator, Nataliya Goodman, will sign Flightless Goose.

You can order by contacting me at my email address (TracksNovel@gmail.com) or in a Facebook message (www.Facebook.com/EricDGoodman).

Payment can be sent by check or money order, or paid electronically by credit card or PayPal.

Learn more about Flightless Goose at the Facebook Fan Page:

www.facebook.com/FlightlessGoose


Learn more about Tracks at the website, where you can read excerpts, reviews, listen to radio readings, and find out what others are saying about the book.
www.TracksNovel.com

Tracks Featured on Deborah Kalb Book Blog

Deborah Kalb is a freelance writer and editor who lives in the Washington D.C. area. She has worked as a journalist in Washington for two decades, writing for Gannett News Service, Congressional Quarterly, U.S. News & World Report, and The Hill. Her latest book, co-authored with her father Marvin Kalb, is called Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama. Deborah also writes a book blog, Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb.

I had the pleasure of meeting and talking with Marvin and Deborah Kalb at the author’s reception for the Gaithersburg Book Festival this past summer. I was there to talk about Tracks; they were at the festival to talk about Haunting Legacy.

Learn more about Haunting Legacy by watching this interview with Marvin and Deborah Kalb on the PBS NewsHour.

www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/white_house/jan-june11/vietnamlegacy_06-29.html

I had the honor of being interviewed by Deborah Kalb last week for her book blog. You can read the interview at the link below.

www.deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2012/11/q-with-writer-eric-d-goodman.html


 

British Aristocracy, California Royalty, and Tracks

Richard Mineards has a distinguished career as a journalist. He covered the Royal Family for Britain’s Daily Mirror and Daily Mail before moving to New York to write for Star Magazine. He’s a regular on CBS, ABC, and CNN. After moving to Montecito (just outside Santa Barbara) about five years ago, he began covering the local celebrity scene.

When Thomas and Gail Steinbeck hosted me for a book event at Tecolote Books in Monteceto this past summer, Richard Mineards covered it in his weekly column for Montecito Journal.

Unfortunately, his column is print only, so I’m not able to share a copy here. In his weekly “Montecito Miscellany” column, Mineards wrote about Chris O’Donnell, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Lady Gaga, Paul Simon, Oprah Winfrey, Michael Douglass, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Tommy Lee Jones, Drew Barrymore … and me!

“Author Eric Goodman is clearly on the right lines … his tome chronicles a single train journey from Baltimore to Chicago and the people on board, with each chapter about different characters, including a hitman, a Holocaust survivor, a former mobster, and a poet.

“Goodman is now finishing off his second work, Womb, he told me at a bijou launch bash at Tecolote, the lively literary lair in the Upper Village, hosted by his friends Thom and Gail Steinbeck.”

It was a brief five-paragraph bit in a celebrity column spanning several pages, but I was honored to be covered (in context with the Steinbecks) by someone used to covering Kings and Queens and Hollywood royalty.

Learn more about Richard Mineards at Montecito Journal.

www.montecitojournal.net/writers

Learn more about Thomas Steinbeck and his great work at his website.

www.ThomasSteinbeck.com

Ready for a Reset?

For many, putting the election to bed last night is a big relief, regardless of which way you lean. A time to reset.

For Gene Silverman, resetting his life is something he sometimes needs to do out of necessity — whether to avoid the mob or dodge a hit man.

Get a taste of Gene Silverman, one of the characters from Tracks: A Novel in Stories, by listening to the podcast from Baltimore’s NPR station, WYPR.

As WYPR puts it: “Novelist Eric D Goodman brings us the story of a computer-geek-turned-criminal who finds himself on the run from the mafia.”

Go ahead and hit the reset button. “Reset” is one of 12 podcasts available at www.tracksnovel.com/radio.html.