{"id":6621,"date":"2015-07-06T12:37:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T19:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6621"},"modified":"2015-07-19T12:45:40","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T19:45:40","slug":"james-frey-check-out-the-kicks-on-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/06\/james-frey-check-out-the-kicks-on-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"JAMES FREY: Check out THE KICKS on Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danspapers.com\/2015\/07\/james-frey-asks-fans-to-watch-the-kicks-on-amazon\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from Dan&#8217;s Papers<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>James Frey Asks Fans to Watch \u2018The Kicks\u2019 on Amazon<\/h1>\n<p>by Oliver Peterson<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ds_link\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/TheKicks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" \/><em>Still from Amazon&#8217;s <strong>The Kicks<\/strong> pilot<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-info ds_link caption-post\">\n<p>Amagansett author and publisher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danspapers.com\/2013\/10\/author-james-frey-celebrates-20-years-clean-and-sober\/\" target=\"_blank\">James Frey<\/a>\u00a0(<em>A Million Little Pieces<\/em>, <em>Bright Shiny Morning<\/em>) reached out to friends and fans of his books on Thursday for help making him \u201cthe coolest dad on the block\u201d by getting the pilot for his teen soccer show <em>The Kicks<\/em> picked up for a full season on Amazon\u2019s streaming video service.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Kicks<\/em> book series, by former soccer star and Olympic gold medalist Alex Morgan, tells the tale of 12-year-old soccer player Devin who moves from\u00a0Connecticut, where she would have been named seventh-grade captain of her school soccer team, and has to start over in\u00a0Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Frey explains:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFour years ago, I got the idea for <em>The Kicks<\/em> while watching the last Women\u2019s World Cup with my oldest daughter, then six. What I hoped would be a cool father\/daughter thing became more than I could ever imagine. She loved the game, loved the players and everything they represented\u2014and she especially loved Alex Morgan!<\/p>\n<p>When the tournament ended, my daughter was eager for more\u2014something that showed strong women succeeding, that portrayed positive female friendships, and that presented athletes who work hard and never give up as beautiful. I very much wanted that for her, as any parent would, yet shockingly there was nothing available that was age appropriate. I couldn\u2019t find any books, let alone a television show. So, I created them in partnership with Alex.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve now got four bestselling books, and we recently produced a TV pilot episode of <em>The Kicks<\/em> for Amazon. Alex even does a cameo at the end of the show! Needless to say, it\u2019s awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch it now at <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1BHYqcl\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/amzn.to\/1BHYqcl<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danspapers.com\/2015\/07\/james-frey-asks-fans-to-watch-the-kicks-on-amazon\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at Dan&#8217;s Papers<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Dan&#8217;s Papers James Frey Asks Fans to Watch \u2018The Kicks\u2019 on Amazon by Oliver Peterson Still from Amazon&#8217;s The Kicks pilot Amagansett author and publisher James Frey\u00a0(A Million Little Pieces, Bright Shiny Morning) reached out to friends and fans of his books on Thursday for help making him \u201cthe coolest dad on the block\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information","category-culture-art","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}