Tag: Shoeless Joe
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W.P. Kinsella & My 11th Novel
I emailed my manuscript of my 11th novel off to my editor yesterday. That’s always a momentous day! It’s entitled THE LOST LINEUP and it’s Book 2 of Myths & Tales of the Winasook Iron Horses. Have no idea if there will ever be a book three. No plans at the moment, but then again,…
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Reading, not writing, with the end in mind.
On my fabulous writing retreat to Tbilisi, Georgia (which I’ll have to post about another day), I finished the first draft of my 11th novel. This one is a sequel to novel 10, my first baseball novel. I’ve had so much fun writing both of these stories, and now that I have an ending, I…
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If You Build It, He Will Come: Revisiting a Modern Classic
It’s a phrase that has made its way into the modern American vernacular. If you build it, he will come. The “it” is a baseball field, and the “he” (or so we think) is the great Shoeless Joe Jackson, a sure-fire Hall of Fame baseball player who was disgraced and banned from the game for…
Author Mark W Sasse 