Never mind how much a book is worth to you; how much is an author worth to you ( Read more... )

This is the tenth anniversary of one of my favorite blogs, and also of this one. I reran it a few years ago, but few people read it because it's about history. As I said in the opening to our book "Hoosier Hysterical", history would be a lot more fun if it was made ... well ... fun. So I had fun with this. (It's been changed slightly, because I'm ( Read more... )

The Hoosiers is in no way related to our book Hoosier Hysterical, being separated by a century or so and a barrel of laughs. (That is, the one I wrote is a barrel of laughs. Well, I like to think so.)

Some books I recommend despite knowing most of my readers won't be interested. So it is with this centennial edition of The Hoosiers, which came out ( Read more... )

History can be funny, even if it makes history teachers roll over in
their graves (hopefully not while they’re still alive). In Hoosier Hysterical, Mark and Emily
Hunter tour Indiana in an off-the-wall, Indy 500-style race though the
past, from Paleo-Indians through the Northwest Territory, to the gas in
Gas City.

http://www.markrhunter.com/ ( Read more... )

Hoosier Hysterical was voted by four out of five readers as the funniest book about Indiana history and trivia ever written in my house:

https://www.amazon.com/Hoosier-Hysterical-became-midwist-without-ebook/dp/B01H7YJNFE/

The fifth reader was just upset because they accidentally learned something.


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Hoosier Hysterical was voted by four out of five readers as the funniest book about Indiana history and trivia ever written in my house:

https://www.amazon.com/Hoosier-Hysterical-became-midwist-without-ebook/dp/B01H7YJNFE/

The fifth reader was just upset because they accidentally learned something.


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It's selling the soap time!

History can be funny, even if it makes history teachers roll over in their graves (hopefully not while they’re still alive). Mark and Emily Hunter tour Indiana in an off-the-wall, Indy 500-style race though the past, from Paleo-Indians through the Northwest Territory, to the gas in Gas City.

http://www.markrhunter.com/ ( Read more... )

 Well, here I am, making my annual appeal for shoppers to buy our books for Christmas. Once a year isn't so bad, is it? I have yet to make a promotional post in honor of Arbor Day ( Read more... )

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We got a new review of "Hoosier Hysterical: How the West Became the Midwest Without Moving At All"!

Spoiler alert: They liked it. (If they hadn't, I probably wouldn't have mentioned it.)

Anyway, you can see the review on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/RT3XQRTQIT7ML/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1533120625

Or on Goodreads:

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