Easy reading is damn hard writing - Nathaniel Hawthorne

B. A. Binns "Pull" ~ B.A. Binns's debut Young Adult Novel

April, 2012 was one of my busiest months ever. I've been
  • in Wisconsin at Barbara Vey's inaugeral Readers' Appreciation Luncheon
  • at the Romance Slam Jam conference in Arkansas
  • visiting students at Little Rock Central High School
  • attending the Hersey High School Mardi Gras day with their Service Over Self club
  • presenting a Man Talk Workshop at the 2012 Chicago North Spring Fling conference
  • sending BEING GOD off for editing.
That's right, at long last,

BEING GOD is coming!!

The follow-up to PULL is preparing for launch later this year. The new book features seventeen-year-old Malik Kaplan--yes, that Malik, telling his story. he has his own set of problems that never came out in PULL that involve his family and lifestyle. He'll be going from the basketball court to the legal court, and discovering that maybe he's not the toughest thing around--in more ways than one. The other characters in BEING GOD include Malik's best (truthfully, his only real) friend, Cesare Russo a red-headed Italian; Nicole a.k.a Red-Stripe, stepping in to be Malik's new girlfriend now that Yolanda belongs to David; and Giselle, Nicole's younger sister who's in love with Cesare.

And Barney.

Yes, that Barney. Barnetta Murhaselt returns for the sequel. A little older and a lot wiser. But she still has some maturing to do, and maybe she can help Malik along the way.

Now I'm off to look for cover models to portray these kids. (Any ideas?)

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Download the first chapters of PULL

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Go to the Books page for more about PULL and BEING GOD.

PULL is available at traditional and online bookstores. Check out Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble.

May and June are shaping up to be pretty busy too:

After spending a very hungry weekend with a bunch of teens kids doing the 30 Hour Famine for world hunger. I'll be in Mount Prospect, I to visit with the United Methodist Men of Trinity United Methodist church. Then I'll be in West Chester Ohio at Lori Foster's Annual Reader and Author Get-together.

Oh yes, then I go to Chicago's Printers Row book fair.

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