The Launching of Nile Kinnick

Nile Kinnick played football at the University of Iowa in the late 1930s.  He went on to break many Iowa Hawkeye football records on his way to winning the 1939 Heisman Trophy. But there was more to Nile Kinnick than just football.  And Tom Lidd did an excellent job of telling the full story in his book NILE.

Having discovered this novel one weekend while doing research, I was quick to purchase it.  I also wrote a blog post about it on the Iowa Hawkeyes Blog.  In that post, I made an open offer to help the author promote and sell the book.  As luck should have it, Tom was a reader of the blog and sent me an email stating an interest in my offer.

Over the next several months, Tom and I exchanged several emails and ideas back and forth on how to promote his book.  Th overall goal is to have the book turned into a screenplay, so having a web presence could only help acheive that goal.  And believe me, this novel will make a fantastic movie.

The first logical step in helping Tom was to build a website.  As more luck should have it, the domain nilekinnick.net was available.  We originally tried to reach out to the owner of the nilekinnick.com domain, but we were unable to broker a reasonable deal.

The website was constructed using a very basic WordPress template with a jQuery slider, and houses basic information about Nile Kinnick, the novel NILE, the author Tom Lidd and the Ironmen team of 1939.

The site will evolve with time to meet changing needs and demands.  For now, it will be used as a tool to help sell books, in addition to helping promote the advancement of a screenplay.

Check out the website for NILE, a novel by T. Lidd.  And if you are a Hawkeye Nerd like myself, make sure to buy a copy of NILE.

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