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The most prominent black sportscaster at ESPN, lover of hip-hop and Broadway Stuart Scott completed work on his memoir, Every Day I Fight, shortly before he passed away last month. Coming from Blue Rider Press on March 10, it is a fearless, intimate, and inspiring story.

Spicing up his sports commentary with his signature phrase \"Booyah,\" and \"Cool as the other side of the pillow,\" \"Just call him butter ’cause he’s on a roll,\" and \"Wow! That was as hard-core as the Wu-Tang Clan on steroids,\" Scott became a pop culture figure and was \"easily one of the most influential personalities in ESPN history,\" according to James Andrew Miller, an author of Those Guys Have All the Fun. Slate called Scott \"a transitional figure for sports journalism, opening the door for a younger, blacker lexicon in sports media.\"

\"(Scott) really wanted to write a book, and as time went on and cancer really became the focus of his life, the most important thing for him was to write a book for his children,\" literary agent David Black told Richard Sandomir of the New York Times, referring to Scott’s daughters, Taelor and Sydni. \"So it became a story about his fight to live. That was the story he had to tell. He wanted his girls to be able to know their dad, and this was one way he could do it.\"

Larry Platt was Scott’s collaborator on the book. After a day together, Platt told the New York Times, \"I knew it was a project, but not just a cancer memoir, but a media memoir about a guy who’s fought back on every level — personally, professionally and healthwise.

\"He was very much aware that the clock was ticking. We were talking about whether he wouldn’t be here when the book came out, and I said, That’s just you having the last word on cancer: ‘Yeah, you thought you’d silence me, but you didn’t.’ \"

Every Day I Fight, with a foreword by Robin Roberts, has a planned first run of 100,000 copies.

I haven't updated this blog in a while. Sorry. Here are some things I have been working on via Instagram pics.

This first one is a snippet from a hidden picture of Glacier National Park.

A small part of a hip-hop themed hidden picture which was my first anthropomorphic illustration for Highlights.

A rejected idea for a "what's wrong?" of a kid dressed in a NASA control room outfit complete with Apollo 11 and a map of the orbital flight path.

Below is from a hidden picture of Miami Beach. 

Kids enjoying some chili in this Texas themed hidden picture.

One of many wheeled vehicles in this hidden picture.

Oops, I guess not all of them have wheels.

Part one of a continuing hidden picture series I have been working on for Highlights. I can't wait to be able to tell everyone about this but it'll have to wait until its launched.

Lastly, tonight it occurred to me that I have been drawing with this pencil since 1993. Happy 20th birthday, 7mm Pentel P207 pencil.  I wonder how many miles we've drawn together?

Law & Order star and hip-hop legend Ice-T will publish Kings of Vice (written with Mal Radcliff) with Tom Doherty Associates’ Forge Books imprint in September.

This fall, the imprint will also publish Angel by Nicole ‘Coco‘ Marrow–an actress and Ice-T’s wife. Ice-T (pictured, via) has more than 83,100  followers on Twitter and is also working on a memoir.

Here’s more about Ice-T’s upcoming book: “Marcus ‘Crush’ Casey is an ex-gang leader in a New York City on the edge of social and economic collapse. He walks out of Attica Penitentiary after serving 20 years behind bars with the realization that he must be part of the solution – but first he must take back his gang from the backstabbing lieutenant who handed him over to the Feds.”

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