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Hero Redefined helped Seattle KING 5 TV’s “Evening Magazine” kick-start its ‘Evening Reads’ series celebrating local authors. Doug talks about why he wrote the book and what he hopes readers will learn about true heroism.

Doug had a wonderful opportunity to bring Hero Redefined athletes and venues to life on Thursday, Feb. 13, during an appearance on KGW-TV’s “Hello Rose City” in Portland, OR.

Doug is interviewed about his book, Hero Redefined, on an episode of The Bald Faced Truth With John Canzano

Ahead of his July 23 visit to Hollywood’s famed Book Soup bookstore, where he is scheduled to read from and answer questions about Hero Redefined, Doug was honored to have LA Magazine put together this pre-event profile of him, the book, and LA’s prominent place in Olympic Games lore. Click below to read the article and Q&A that ran in the July 17 issue.

Athletics Weekly bills itself as a leading publication in covering track-and-field, proclaiming, “When it comes to the No.1 Olympic sport, AW has been the world’s premier source of news, results, features and training advice since 1945.” Thus, it was wonderful to have AW feature an extract of Chapter 11 of Hero Redefined, with Doug’s profile of 200-meter sprinter and human rights ambassador Peter Norman, in its May 1 edition:

Peter Norman, the third man - Athletics Weekly

After a bookstore event in Durango, Colo., the Durango Herald did a nice story on Hero Redefined and Tracy and Lanny Barnes, the twin sisters, Durango natives, and Olympic biathletes profiled in Chapter 8 of the book.

Sun Valley, Idaho resident and 1984 Olympic Women’s marathoner Gabriele Andersen-Schiess gets well-deserved coverage in this Idaho Mountain Express arts-and-events story on Hero Redefined, which includes a lengthy interview with Doug.

The Lake Tahoe-based Sierra Sun writes about the ‘heroism’ theme in Hero Redefined — and how Doug kept a promise to his mom.

Syndicated columnist and book reviewer Barbara McMichael filed this high-praise review of Hero Redefined last April for the “Coast Weekend” supplement that runs in Coastal Oregon and Washington newspapers such as the Daily Astorian and the Chinook Observer.

Doug talks to Ontario newspaper about Hero Redefined and chapter 10 hero Mel Wakabayashi