With the World Series underway, I decided to look back in on some of the people I talked to when writing my baseball e-book, Contender: Triumph, Tragedy and Canadian Baseball Player Harry Fisher, which I’ve recently re-issued. It tells the story of a relative of my husband’s who enjoyed a long minor league career in […]
With the 2013 World Series underway, I called retired pitcher Vernon (Deacon) Law, winner of a World Series ring for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1960, to get his thoughts on this year’s match up. (That’s him above.) Mr. Law spoke to me earlier for my e-book, Contender: Triumph, Tragedy and Canadian Baseball Player Harry Fisher. […]
With the baseball pennant fights underway, I called up some retired ballplayers for their take on the upcoming World Series. These are the gentlemen I spoke to for my baseball e-book, Contender: Triumph, Tragedy and Canadian Baseball Player Harry Fisher. It tells the story of a relative of my husband’s, who had a long baseball […]
A small gift: a short story that appears in my 2021 collection, The Necessary Havoc of Love. He was standing outside the arena as they pulled up, a little man with bad hair. “That’s him,” Janis Trevor said, pointing out the car window. “I phoned Dad. He says legally they can bar him from coming […]
During rewrites, go through your script and make sure at least one thing changes in every scene, and that it feeds your story. Maybe a bomb explodes, shredding expectations. Maybe one character loses power over another, whether she’s a mother confronting her daughter or a sergeant bellowing at a recruit. An image we’ve seen before […]