Brendan O'Meara

Justin Heckert: 'This one hurt' Getting, oh, so, close ...

It's a different kind of clubbing!

I hope you'll join us!

welcometopitchclub.substack.com/p/justin-hec...

#freelance #querying #writing #journalism #pitching

So great! And I wasn't even thinking of the baseball playoffs now ... that was just coincidence!

BTW, I'm gonna be hanging with Kim Cross this weekend. I'm in Idaho for some Front Runnner stuff.

Oh, wow, thanks for sharing Justin's Pitch Club, Mark!

Episode 492: The Daniel Littlewood Takeover Extravaganza!

My apologies.

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An honor and a delight to be a guest on one of the podcasts I listened to every single week while I was working on the book. Thx @brendanomeara.bsky.social of the Creative Nonfiction Podcast! brendanomeara.com/episode-491-... #writingcommunity 📚💙

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I had about a 2 minute wait, and then was helped very cordially in canceling my subscription

Hey, ya heard? I'm going to Boise soon, driving across the vast expanse of eastern Oregon to throw Front Runners at your face.

It's free, but ya getta dizcount if you RSVP and buy a ticket, which includes a signed and stamped book and a stern talkin' to.

www.eventbrite.com/e/reading-di...

Hey, all right! Thanks for sharing, Andrew! It is a great story!

For the @atavist.com Robert Weintraub came by to talk about "American Hindenburg." Great talk!

How to Wrangle the Idea with Cassidy Randall Cassidy Randall takes us to her Atavist Magazine pitch that earned her a nod in Year's Best Sports Writing 2023.

@cassidyrandall.bsky.social stopped by Pitch Club HQ to talk about her @atavist.com pitch for her story "Alone at the Edge of the World," a story was anthologized in Year's Best Sports Writing 2023.

welcometopitchclub.substack.com/p/how-to-wra...

Yep!! QB1!

It is science!

Author as QB1 Books by Lisa Loving, Jeff Pearlman, Seth Wickersham, and Tim Queeney, and a lot more junk.

September rager just went out: Author as QB1.

Very nice of the author @timqueeney.bsky.social to write this kind and insightful review of "The Front Runner."

He's got a really cool book out called "Rope," and I'm eager AF to read it and speak with him about it.

timqueeney.com/more-than-ju...

62.1. Good Talk #13: Brendan O'Meara "I think that's why Oregonians gravitated toward [Prefontaine]. There was a working-class pugilistic ethic to him. He was homegrown."

Whereby @leahsottile.bsky.social talks to me about lots of great stuff ... and bidets.

I've taken, as part of my promoting people's appearances on the podcast, to including short, 5-star reviews on Amazon/ Goodreads. I use the same one for each.

Point being, these things matter, especially for little no-names like me.

If you like someone's work, go that little extra mile for them.

Oh, man, I was at Elliott Bay Books at the end of July for a book signing! I'm grateful for you spreading the word. That's how this book will succeed: hand to hand.

Wow! How nice to read this. Thanks, Candace!

Really, what a joy to be on @leahsottile.bsky.social's home turf for this bright and vibrant conversation about unauthorized biography, podcasting, and Steve Prefontaine.

I want to try and collect them all ... probably have to hit up ebay for a good chunk of them.

And yet the Balrog from the 2001 Fellowship of the Ring is still amazing!

Does a particular volume, dating back to BASW, stand out to you as more memorable than others?

Hanif!

Episode 483: Off the Page and Into the Ears with Julia Barton Podcast Episode · The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O'Meara · 08/15/2025 · 1h 18m

Julia Barton was pretty dang cool.

The best-selling author Neal Bascomb wrote a WWII-era work of narrative nonfiction about auto racing titled Faster. If he's up for the work, he might be perfect for you.

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Racing Rachael Ray by Brendan O’Meara | Beef Stroganoff in thirty minutes.

Can we get this to Rachael Ray? I think she needs to see it!

Hey @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social, our books are pals at an indie store in Springfield, OR!

It's the thing I wish I had as a baby #freelancer. It's also the thing I need now because I'm shitty at pitches, lol.