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Good News

Posted on November 13, 2018 by Brian C. Kaufman

It’s official! The Fat Lady’s Low, Sad Song has won the 2018 PenCraft Award for General Fiction. My baseball novel about a young, female knuckleball pitcher in the minor leagues, featured on the Kirkus book review podcast, is starting to get some … Continue reading →

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Hearing the Fat Lady Sing

Posted on August 23, 2018 by Brian C. Kaufman

The Fat Lady’s Low, Sad Song is now an audiobook. Marlin May is a stage and voice actor living in Windsor, Colorado. Marlin reached out to me through Facebook to say he’d been contracted for the audiobook version of my … Continue reading →

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It’s Alive…The Fat Lady’s Low, Sad Song

Posted on June 28, 2018 by Brian C. Kaufman

My baseball novel, The Fat Lady’s Low, Sad Song, is available from Amazon, so it’s officially alive. This book sat on a back shelf in my mind for nearly two decades, and I think the wait was worth it. There … Continue reading →

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Bilko

Posted on June 7, 2018 by Brian C. Kaufman

My lifetime love affair with baseball was often unrequited. A chubby kid in high school, I made the baseball team, but never cracked the starting lineup. I had a large collection of Mickey Mantle cards, but my first wife threw … Continue reading →

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NEW BOOK COMING…

Posted on March 29, 2018 by Brian C. Kaufman

“Set in the outback of the independent leagues, Kaufman has written a poignant baseball romance twice over—aging, iron-gloved, home-run slugging Parker Westfall’s love for the game and for a young knuckle-balling female pitcher. Refreshing and real. Read it and weep … Continue reading →

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