Category Archives: Personal Notes

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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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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The “Other” Home Run Record

Posted on May 16, 2018 by Brian C. Kaufman

Where do writers get their ideas? Something as small as a few lines in a record book can spark an entire novel. That’s the case with my novel, The Fat Lady’s Low, Sad Song. Joe Bauman was an Oklahoma boy … Continue reading →

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