Six Weeks is Available Now!

Thank you for visiting brendanomeara.com. “Six Weeks in Saratoga: How Three-Year-Old Filly Rachel Alexandra Beat the Boys and Became Horse of the Year” (SUNY Press) launches in July 2011. For more, hit that “News” button.

Also, check the Published Credits tab for my latest work, namely the pieces I wrote for Kentucky Confidential.

This great site, developed by Jonathan Lein, will forever be an evolving platform for my work. Be sure to check out The Blog Itself in the upper right hand corner. So, yes, this is it, where you can find, to  no end, the riffs of an author of narrative nonfiction. Cheers!

I’ll leave you with this quote by Stephen  King, “By the time I was fourteen… the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced  the nail with a spike and kept on writing.”

“Going behind the scenes of three-year-old filly Rachel Alexandra’s 2009 triumph … O’Meara makes her story gallop and gleam.” — Chronogram

“The [book] is one of enjoyable promise, and as the author recounts little moments and inside conversations, he provides an intimate glimpse into the lives of the figures he covers. The narrative keeps game pace with outside literary standards and features bursts of brilliance, and I found it a refreshing change from the selection of racing-themed volumes available today. As O’Meara brings his subjects to life, you find yourself thinking this is the kind of guy whose work I want to follow.” — Claire Novak, ESPN.com