THE LATE BLOOMER

Soon to be a major motion picture, here is the funny, revealing, harrowing memoir of a star journalist and hotshot hockey pro who discovers that he is biochemically changing into a woman.

On the surface, Ken Baker seemed a model man. He was a nationally ranked hockey goalie; a Hollywood correspondent for People magazine; a guest-lister at celebrity parties; and girls came on to him. Inside, though, he didn't feel like the man he was supposed to be.

Ken found that despite being attracted to women, he had little sex drive and even less of a sex life. To his anguish, he repeatedly found himself unable to perform sexually. Regardless of strenuous workouts, his body remained flabby and soft, earning him the nickname "Pear" from his macho teammates. Physically, matters grew even more bizarre when he discovered that he was lactating. The testosterone-driven culture in which Ken grew up made it agonizingly difficult for him to seek help. But in time he discovered something that lifted years of pain, frustration, and confusion: a brain tumor was causing his body to be flooded with massive amounts of a female hormone, which was disabling his masculinity.

Five hours of surgery accomplished what years of therapy, rumination, and denial could not -- and allowed Ken Baker to finally feel -- and function -- like a man.

TarcherPerigee will publish as a trade paperback movie tie-in edition on August 30th, 2016. Please note that this book was previously published by Tarcher under the title, Man Made. Ken has written a foreword for this new edition of the book.

Ken Baker is an author, journalist and TV personality. The Buffalo, New York, native's first foray into writing was the keeping of a personal journal, which he kept through his college years at Colgate University and later at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Ken is a resident of Hermosa Beach, California. His story is coming to the screen in Fall 2016 in a much-anticipated Netflix feature film, starring Elijah Wood, Academy Award-winner JK Simmons (Law & Order, Whiplash, Spider-Man) and Jane Lynch (Glee, The 40-Year-Old Virgin).