Today marks the 75th anniversary of the United States detonating a nuclear bomb over Hiroshima. The United States is close to ending a major nuclear arms control treaty, New START. We need your help to bring an end to this madness.
I can’t tell you how heartwarming it is to give something—whether inspiration, hope, curiosity, or even just a touch of happiness—to kids living with cancer. It’s the purpose of Starlight Children’s Foundation.
I’m new to the writing world, at least as far as getting published goes, so I was surprised at first when Authority Magazine asked me if I’d share some tips on becoming an author. Am I qualified to do this, I wondered to myself. And then I thought, I just might be!
Random House Children’s Books generously gifted hundreds of copies of my memoir, WARHEAD, to Starlight Children’s Foundation for distribution through their partner hospitals across the country. I’m going on the road to visit several of them, and yesterday was my first—to Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital.
It was my first television appearance in a few years, and, admittedly, I was a bit nervous on my way to the studio…
Seattle Magazine has just published its BEST THINGS TO DO IN SEATTLE list for July 2019, and the WARHEAD book launch at Elliott Bay Book Company is on the list!
More good news! Junior Library Guild, a commercial book club devoted to juvenile literature, has selected WARHEAD as one of its “Gold Standard” books!
Amazon’s editorial team has put together a list of must-reads for the summer—and WARHEAD is on it. Now I know what to take to the beach!
“An inspiring story of a teen fighting to save his life while also trying to save the world. Touching, vivid, full of humor and heart, WARHEAD shows what is possible when we refuse to accept a diagnosis of despair.”
“Both global and personal, Warhead is about the battle all teenagers face as they struggle to carve a place for themselves in a world they did not create—but one that desperately needs them.”
"A sweet but unsentimental account of a truly fascinating nuclear childhood. Henigson had me at 'Gorbachev.'"
"Funny and fiercely honest, WARHEAD is a dramatic true story of a teen battling brain cancer and nuclear war. A brave, bold, dazzling debut memoir that is impossible to put down."
Yesterday, a notification popped up on my phone. “Traffic to your website has increased by 600 percent,” it said. It could only mean one thing: the story I’d recorded here in Seattle at KUOW with BBC Outlook had been broadcast around the world.