Authors at Tomorrow: Jerry VanSchaik "Iron Jaws"

Join Tomorrow Bookstore in welcoming Jerry VanSchaik and his book "Iron Jaws".

About the book:

Ironjaws is a YA novella about five friends who spend an early summer night trying to catch a giant catfish that may or may not live at the far, deep end of the lake. Ironjaws is not the first fish story ever told. But it may be the first one to blend fishing with basketball in a way that asks us to think over what teamwork and friendship are, and what winning really is.

Praise for Iron Jaws:

“An underdog story of friendship, adventure, and coming of age as five boys on the brink of high school discover resiliency, teamwork, and the importance of chasing dreams. Jerry Vanschaik’s Ironjaws shows that nothing is impossible on the basketball court, or out on the lake, if you have a little help from your friends.”

—J.R. Jamison, award-winning author of Hillbilly Queer: A Memoir

An exciting and retro coming-of-age story from our first US-based writer!

“Basketball’s innate ability to bring young people together in meaningful and sometimes unexpected ways is at the center of this heartwarming, beautifully rendered tale of friendship, hope and redemption.“

—Craig Leener, Author of the Zeke Archer Basketball Trilogy and There’s No Basketball on Mars

“As a fan of both basketball and fishing, the story drew me in and held me to the last word! “

– Barbara Hay, award-winning author, journalist, and short-story writer and the author of the debut young adult novel LESSON OF THE WHITE EAGLE , THE BULLDOGGERS CLUB: THE TALE OF THE ILL-GOTTEN CATFISH.

About the author:

Jerry Vanschaik is America’s premier coffee novelist, perhaps because he is the only one. He has written two full length novels with titles too coffee-centric for most, Tripio and The Trier. Jerry began his career in coffee during the late 1980s. He has done everything in the coffee business from throwing 132 pound bags of green coffee off the back of a semi to throwing drunken customers out of his pioneering Starbucks store in Chicago. As a result he is able to create worlds where coffee is nearly a living character and not a trendy plot affectation.

Jerry began journaling after leaving college and keeps a journal to this day. Writing has always been a type of meditative practice for him. In order to keep his mind in a place of energized calm so that he can sit down to write, he does yoga, meditates, the aforementioned journaling, reads and tries not to take it all too seriously. His four young adult children make sure of that.

Please come to Tomorrow to meet the author, grab the book and get your copy signed!

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