Today’s the day! Heroes, my middle grade novel about the attack on Pearl Harbor, is officially on sale everywhere!
Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good, daydreaming about the comics they’ll create together in beautiful Hawaii, where the air smells like pineapples, the clear blue water sparkles in the sun, and dozens of US battleships, cruisers, and aircraft carriers stand silent sentinel in the harbor. World War II is raging elsewhere, but not here—not until the morning of December 7, 1941, when Japanese planes suddenly attack without warning. If Frank and Stanley make it through this infamous day, can their friendship—and their dreams—survive? Or has everything they know and love been destroyed?
View a trailer for the book here!
Buy the Book
I encourage you to pop by your favorite indie bookstore and shop local. If you’d like to shop online, you can order signed copies of Heroes from my hometown indie, Malaprop’s Bookstore, or order from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Bookshop.org.
Heroes Tour Stops
All times are local. Check out the new event dates below!
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Third Place Books at Lake Forest Park
Lake Forest Park, Washington
6:00pm PT
Friday, February 9, 2024
Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
Beaverton, Oregon
7:00pm PT
Saturday, February 10, 2024
Standley Lake Library
with Second Star to the Right Books
Arvada, Colorado
3:00pm MT
Monday, February 12, 2024
Mirowitz Performing Arts Center
at the J’s Staenberg Family Complex
with The Novel Neighbor and the St. Louis Co. Library
St. Louis, Missouri
6:30pm CT
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Neuqua Valley High School
with Anderson’s Bookshop
Naperville, Illinois
7:00pm CT
Friday, February 16, 2024
Wiley Magnet Middle School Auditorium
with Bookmarks
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
6:30pm ET
Saturday, February 17, 2024
Chapel Hill Public Library
with Flyleaf Books
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
4:00pm ET
Sunday, February 18, 2024
Meredith College Jones Chapel
with Quail Ridge Books
Raleigh, North Carolina
2:00pm ET
Monday, February 19, 2024
Sunrise Theater
with The Country Bookshop
Southern Pines, North Carolina
6:00pm ET
New! Thursday, February 22, 2024
Virtual Book Launch!
Can’t join me in person? Join me online!
I’ll give my Heroes presentation, then do a live Q&A.
1:00pm ET
New! Saturday, February 24, 2024
Meet and Greet at The Hop
with Malaprop’s Bookstore
Asheville, North Carolina
2:00-4:00pm ET
New! Sunday, February 25, 2024
Union Ave. Books
Knoxville, Tennessee
3:00pm ET
All tour events are open to the public, but many have limited seating and require pre-registration. Be sure to click the red link to the bookstore event you’re interested in for more information!
World Read Aloud Day
Wednesday, February 7th is World Read Aloud Day 2024. To celebrate, I recorded a video of myself reading a passage from my new book Heroes! Click on the image below to watch the video on Youtube.
Please share this video with young readers! I made it especially for classroom use.
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Thanks! You’re awesome.
hi pls say hi you have a book comming out on my birthday t would be awesome if you could shy hi and I also emailed you.
MY NAME IS MADDIE
Friday, February 9, 2024
Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
Beaverton, Oregon
7:00pm PT
I am also going to buy it too.
Hi Alan, Im a big fan of all your books! (Especially project 1065) And i will certainly be loking forward to buying another one of your awesome WW2 books! And have you thought about making a second version of project 1065? Maybe fritz could make an appearance!
Sincerely, Corbin Williamson