Sports

Steven M. Reilly "The Fat Lady Never Sings: How a High School Football Team Found Redemption on the Baseball Diamond"


Seymour, CT

Football is life in the tiny community of Derby, Connecticut. But when three high school seniors allow a twenty-eight year winning streak to end, they are forever branded as “losers”. The three determine to seek redemption by playing on the baseball team, where they forever leave a mark on this small Connecticut town.
The Fat Lady Never Sings is the remarkable true story of the 1992 Derby Red Raiders as told by one of its assistant coaches, author Steve Reilly. The smallest school in the league, Derby qualifies for the state baseball tournament and ultimately advances to the championship game.
Under the towering lights of Middletown’s Palmer Field, the Red Raiders face off against Terryville. But in the last inning, the Raiders trail by two runs and are down to their final at bat. With one out remaining, the “fat lady” prepares to sing as the quarterback steps into the batter’s box…

Children's Poetry

Say It In Rhyme

Mollie Wilson "Duck Tape"

Farmington, CT

Duck Tape is a tale of a shy, lonely duck who finds love, fun and total happiness on his lake when he discovers a roll of duct tape. The tape winds through the book in colorful illustrations by award winning illustrator Toby Mikle. Mikle captures the essence of the tale in bright, simple illustrations. Duck Tape is an easy reader book in bright blue lettering done in rhyme which is sure to be a bedtime favorite. The whole family will enjoy this tale of fun and love written by award winning author, Mollie Wilson. This is her second children's book. Rhyme Time, her first book, is also available through Authorhouse.

Short Stories

A Short Story Author Joins the Group

Lynne K. Cote "The Long Road"

Guilford, CT

The Long Road sets thirteen stories in a world too often less than kind. A world which includes Butte, Montana and New York’s Hudson River Valley, a Manhattan apartment and a Florida airport, a small college town in Pennsylvania and a hospice in New England. The characters—given a visual translation by artist Raffael DiLauro—are affluent and poor, young and older, black and white, married and widowed, immigrant and long bred American. For some, their regrets and the burden of their haunting histories are too great; but more often Cote allows for hope, for the everyday of carrying-on. Her twists and turns, and surprise, add a suspense to both ordinary and extraordinary circumstances; and carefully crafted, layered metaphors — as exemplified in the cover story of a man and a woman, and a dog and a kitten, walking the long road to divorce — bring a surreal quality to this debut collection.