A Heavy Lady to Dance With

After spending several months hitchhiking around Europe in the early 1970s, I lived for a time on an abandoned sailing ship in a Copenhagen harbor while supporting myself as a street musician.

The memoir is now on Kindle and Nook.

Three Stories From My College Years

I wrote these three pieces while I was a student at Beloit College in Wisconsin. They were the first three to be “professionally” published. The first two pieces are fiction. The third is non-fiction.

Looking for Tornadoes, and Inspiration was originally published in Spectrum, a literary magazine published by the University of Massachusetts.

Clap Trap was published in New Writers, a literary magazine published in New York City. Please note: this piece addresses a ‘mature subject,’ and is probably not appropriate for readers under the age of fourteen.

Encounter: ‘I Must Have Looked Frightened’ was published in a well-known newspaper nicknamed ‘The Gray Lady’ and sometimes referred to as ‘the newspaper of record.’

Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Three-from-College-ebook/dp/B005MGTW1K/ref=sr_1_47?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1316007687&sr=1-47

Nook: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/three-from-college-todd-strasser/1105605831?ean=2940013344617&itm=16&usri=todd%2bstrasser

Blood on My Hands Nominated for 2012 Texas Tayshas List

I believe this list is used by school libraries throughout Texas, so it involves a lot of schools.

The Return of Wordsworth

Wordsworth, the lazy, loveable, talking Basset hound has come back to life in digital form!

These beginning chapter books for grades 1 - 3 are great bedtime read-alouds.

Kindle:

http://www.amazon.com/Wordsworth-Cold-Cut-Catastrophe-ebook/dp/B005D9JKXQ/ref=sr_1_49?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1315825624&sr=1-49

Nook:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wordsworth-and-the-cold-cut-catastrophe-todd-strasser/1003225922?ean=2940012779793&itm=6&usri=todd%2bstrasser

The Joy of Surfing

I don't know him, but I'm told he lives around here. Long Beach is one of our closest breaks. This was shot as Irene approached. Please watch until the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1-KOej8gwU

Variety International Runs Story on German Give A Boy A Gun Movie

Posted: Tue., Aug. 16, 2011, 8:47am PT

Gansel to adapt 'Give a Boy a Gun'

Pic based on Todd Strasser novel

By Ed Meza

Exclusive: BERLIN -- Dennis Gansel, who directed 2008 hit drama ''The Wave,'' is again turning to author Todd Strasser for his next film, ''Ich knall euch ab!''
Pic is based on Strasser's 2000 novel ''Give a Boy a Gun,'' about two troubled and heavily armed students who hold their classmates hostage at a high-school dance and target the jocks and teachers who tormented them. Pic is to be set in Germany.

Gansel's adaptation of Strasser's ''The Wave,'' which was also set in a German high school, became a major international hit for Constantin Film. With its exploration of teen violence, ''Ich knall euch ab!'' is seen as a thematic follow-up to that film.

Jan Berger, who penned Gansel's 2010 vampire thriller ''We Are the Night,'' also wrote the ''Give a Boy a Gun'' adaptation.

Christian Becker of Munich-based Rat Pack Filmproduktion is producing the pic, which is set to shoot in the second quarter of next year. Constantin Film will distribute domestically.

Gansel's recently finished ''The Year of the Snake'' for UFA Cinema. The political thriller, which stars Moritz Bleibtreu, Kasia Smutniak and Max Riemelt, follows a Berlin tabloid journalist who travels to Moscow and gets caught up in a web of intrigue and terrorism.

Universal is set to release ''The Year of the Snake'' in Germany later this year.

Contact Ed Meza at staff@variety.com

Blood on My Hands Nominated for Wyoming Award

The 2011-2012 Wyoming Soaring Eagle Book Award for students in grades 7 - 12.

http://www.ccpls.org/html/soaringeagle.html