The Spirits of the Air 

First, came Bernard Malamud's The Natural (1952).

Then, W.P. Kinsella's Shoeless Joe (1982), and Michael Shaara's For Love of the Game (1991).

Not since then has a compelling new baseball novel emerged - until now - in Art Tirrell's lyrical

The Vitaman Effect.

The story that launched Art Tirrell's career is now available as an e-book.

"Vigil T. Mann? Hell yes, I hearda' him. That man could make a baseball do things nobody never seen - not before, not since."

In 1997, Art Tirrell envisioned the first chapters of The Vitaman Effect as an exercise for an evening writing course that promised to reveal, "How to write Fiction that Sells."

"They're quiet because you just blew them away," said instructor Alana White after Art read aloud the scene in the locker room where Eddie tells Jim he's being released the next day. 

 Later, after the aspiring novelist joined an online critique group, member Garth Stein not only offered suggestions for developing the plot, but also pulled strings that led to Art signing with The Linda Chester Agency. No sale resulted, and for good reason: the story wasn't ready, and neither was its author.

But now, after 11 years and a successful debut novel entitled The Secret Ever Keeps,  Jim Stronge’s journey of self discovery is finally in print. Read the opening chapters on your Kindle, your I-Pad, your Nook, your Sony reader, or in any electronic form you have available.

(Also available in printed form at Amazon here.)