Curveball: When Life Throws You a Brain Tumor is the story of thirty-two year-old Liz Holzemer, a woman who led a storybook life. Wife of Major League Baseball pitcher Mark Holzemer, Liz was enjoying a successful career as a journalist when an MRI revealed a baseball-size brain tumor she soon found out was called ‘meningioma.’

Six years and two brain surgeries later, Holzemer has written a book about her experience and is now a strong advocate for those who have been diagnosed with meningioma tumors. She is the founder of Meningioma Mommas, an international support organization that is primarily Internet-based.

Curveball supports Holzemer’s mission to inform and comfort. Told with clarity and unwavering humor, this book is an inspirational and informative account of one woman’s battle for her life. It shows how she emerged from this frightening diagnosis and two brain surgeries retaining her remarkable spirit of survival and renewed sense of purpose and hope.

Recently named one of Woman’s Day magazine’s “Women Who Inspire Us,” Holzemer has also received several local honors and awards in her hometown of Denver, Colorado.