I'm excited to announce that my novel, Fourth Down In Texas , is now available. It will go into wide release this summer, but for now, it's available exclusively through the  FourthDowninTexas.com . Early copies will also, in all likelihood, be signed. (I signed a lot of them before the official release date, but since I don't do the shipping, I can't guarantee every one is signed.) Details about the book are below, and there's more at -- echo, echo -- FourthDowninTexas.com . From the news release: Football, with both a rich history and a history of making people rich, might seem to big too die. But in FOURTH DOWN IN TEXAS, a novel set amid the simmering debate of football safety, the dominoes are falling on a cultural cornerstone of America. Evidence is mounting regarding the lasting effects of concussions, the NFL and NCAA are targets of negligence lawsuits, and the rare-but-wrenching stories of high school player deaths have put football on the firing