What if you were given the assignment to take a screenplay for a movie and make it into a novel? How would you do it? Could you do it?

Travis Thrasher did...and with style!

I'm not into sports. I wouldn't know a touchdown from a hole in one. Okay, so maybe that's exaggerating, but reading a book about a baseball star and his messed up life is seriously NOT my first choice in fiction. But here I am, recommending a novel about a baseball hero who's an alcoholic deadbeat dad. Why? Because Home Run has a powerful message of redemption (and the writing is drool worthy).

And if reading just isn't your thing, don't worry. You can go see the movie. Home Run is out April 19th in theaters. Check it out and see if there's one near you. Let's show Hollywood we don't need over-the-top violence and sex to make a movie a hit. Let's show them it's about the message.