Given my son’s fascination with said city on the lake, I am particularly gratified to have such a glowing review in the Plain-Dealer:

“Olear takes a rifle-shot premise — stay-at-home dad with two challenging children, one of whom has Asperger’s syndrome — and manages to hit more than a dozen bull’s-eyes.”

Big thanks to Chris Rodell for the kind words.

In yet another example of the exquisite taste of residents of Southern California, Fathermucker appears at #15 on the Paperback Fiction bestseller list of the L.A. Times.

Watch your back, Grisham.  I’m coming for you!

A big week of events, starting with the Pen Parentis Literary Salon in lower Manhattan — a few blocks from Occupy Wall Street, in fact — with the great Elissa Schappell (whose first name, I discovered, is pronounced like “a Lisa”), followed by an appearance on the Book Club Girl podcast, followed by the Nervous Breakdown Literary Experience at Book Soup in Los Angeles, along with Lenore Zion, Ben Loory, and Victoria Patterson, who read a piece about literary farts.  Thanks to everyone who attended/listened. Continue reading →

Fathermucker has been getting a lot of love lately:

I spend Seven Seconds in Heaven with Liz and Lisa at Chick Lit Is Not Dead.

In Rhode Island’s own Go Local Prov, I learned that two out of three Robins recommend Fathermucker for their readers who read books.

In Great Falls, Montana, Sara Habein writes me a Glorified Love Letter (but spares no love for Speidi).

I hear the sweet sounds of purring from The House of the Seven Tails, and 5 Minutes For Books gives me my 15 minutes of fame.

And I’m in the parenting section of the Chicago Fucking Tribune!

Thanks to Lori Hettler at The Next Best Book Blog for recording this.

I’ve been fortunate to have some pieces up at various blogs this week.  Here’s the round-up:

At Lenore Skenazy’s great Free Range Kids blog, I discuss the odd correlation the state of New Jersey has found between swingsets and choking.

At Patrick Wensink’s We Who Are About to Breed, I give the father-to-be some advice.

At JMWW, Jen Michalski gets to the State of Greg Olear.

And at The Nervous Breakdown, my good friend Robin Antalek posts a very long interview about Fathermucker.