Happy Samurai Spring Training Valentine's Day!

It's February 14, 2008, and the first thing on most people's minds is Valentine's Day. Wendi and I are exchanging gifts later, and Jo is already enjoying the gift I got her--her very own lightsaber. (Here she's posing very seriously, she tells me, like Luke.) We're already enacted a few scenes from Star Wars, and one, unintentionally, from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

But it's not just Valentine's Day--it's the first day pitchers and catchers can report for spring training! Ah, the return of baseball season. Could this day get any better?

Oh, but it can! Today is also the day Samurai Shortstop is officially available in paperback!

Happy Samurai Spring Training Valentine's Day!

And to help promote Samurai and their other baseball books this spring, Penguin put together an awesome baseball card promotion featuring each of the titles. Check it out: