"Rich material. Warm and compelling. Evokes the kind of small-town life lots
of people wish they had known."Orlando Sentinel

"Easily imparts the feeling that he is relating a story he has just heard to a few friends in the
privacy of his own home."New York Times

During the Great Depression of the 1930s in the tiny village of Oliver, New York, deep in the snow country
east of Buffalo, one young man, a local volunteer fireman, is determined to rescue his neighborsfrom
boredom and sadness if nothing else. He banishes both ennui and melancholy with community hijinks of
manic inventivenessand all too frequently breathtaking embarrassmentin his last years before a fatal
encounter with an unsuspected cancer.

The tale is a reminder that although life is short and unpredictable, its transience and danger can often be
transformed by the love and even the downright silliness of those whose company we treasure. Nailing It
is a warm, knowing, and often hilarious, commemoration of small-town life.

Norman Dietz is a writer, voice-over artist, and audiobook narrator who was named one of the fifty "Best Voices of the Century" by AudioFile magazine. He and his late wife Sandra transformed an abandoned ice cream parlor into a playhouse, which served "the world's best hot fudge sundaes" before and after performances. The founder of Theatre in the Works, he lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Norman Dietz is a writer, voice-over artist, and audiobook narrator who was named one of the fifty "Best Voices of the Century" by AudioFile magazine. He and his late wife Sandra transformed an abandoned ice cream parlor into a playhouse, which served "the world's best hot fudge sundaes" before and after performances. The founder of Theatre in the Works, he lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.