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Get ready for basketball season with this sports thriller!
Free 252 Page Thriller Examines Greed in High School Sports..smashwords.com
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Michael Jordan and Jerry Sloan inducted into the BBALL Hall of Fame. What a great sport!!
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Referee meetings starting next week....basketball season is right around the corner!!
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It was great meeting all of the you readers who were able to come to the Brigantine Gallery in Downers Grove last Friday night. You were all so kind! Thank you.
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I just made Advantage Disadvantage available to our service men and women free for the asking under the Operation eBook Drop at smashwords. Hope it breaks up some boredom and lifts the spirits of our brave soldiers.
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Go Yale Go!
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I've already received really nice emails from service men and spouses who have downloaded my book under Operation Ebook Drop. What a great idea (by author Edward C. Patterson) - I feel priviledged to participate.
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I will be interviewed on Tuesday 10/20 @ 8:30 AM CST on Chicago radio station 1530 AM. Simulcast and show archive on www.radiochicagoland.com
Listen to how nervous I will be
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Listen to how nervous I will be
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Yeah Yale and I saw on another thread that you're going to mention Operation EBook Drop. Yell it loud so Oprah can hear it. 
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If you read my novel you will never feel the same going to watch a high school sporting event. This whodunit tale is told using my 17+ years as a high school basketball referee. Don't get me wrong - I love the game, and all that is good about it. But there is much to dislike - overzealous parents, corrupt officials, coaches looking out for their own carreers, neighborhood bookies trying to exploit the kids, etc..
So, check out Advantage Disadvantage. It will be the best buck you've shelled out!
Yale R. Jaffe
Author, and Basketball Referee (calls 'em like he sees 'em!)
So, check out Advantage Disadvantage. It will be the best buck you've shelled out!
Yale R. Jaffe
Author, and Basketball Referee (calls 'em like he sees 'em!)
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Jason, I hope you enjoy my book. I think it should be called a thriller in a sports venue. Love to get your feedback.
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I just completed an interview on Spad's Blog about my background and why I wrote Advantage Disadvantage, Come check it out:
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A local high school teacher told me that my book will be added to the options on the summer reading list for her Contemporary Literature Class. I am flattered!
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Fictional stories and films about baseball and football are plentiful, but basketball stories seem to be relatively scarce. Although I'm not a huge fan of basketball, I thoroughly enjoyed Yale Jaffe's "Advantage Disadvantage." It's a welcome addition to the sports fiction genre, with its story of the development of a young basketball player, Jamal Imari. "Advantage Disadvantage" has a nice storyline with a cast of interesting and colorful characters, but to me the real attraction is the behind-the-scenes look at how promising young basketball players are recruited and groomed for college hoops. The story takes place in Chicago, but the location could be any large American city.
The cast of characters includes Jamal Imari, a talented young basketball player with a burning desire to play in college; his father Marcus, who helps with his coaching; Jamal's mother Elizabeth, who turns elsewhere for love as her marriage to Marcus falls apart; Billy Rechter, a high school basketball referee; Frank Worrell, a newspaper reporter who gets caught up in a gambling scheme engineered by Bobby G, a former gangbanger who now has a lucrative bookmaking business; Nancy Kapist, a newspaper editor who's Frank Worrell's boss and part-time lover; and Scott Venturi, the coach of Jamal's high school team who will do anything to get a college coaching job, even if it means using Jamal to get it. All these characters' lives are intertwined against the backdrop of big-city basketball as Jamal goes through the system from grade school through high school.
The author obviously has firsthand knowledge of high school basketball. It was fascinating to go behind-the-scenes to learn how players are recruited and brought up through the system. I learned about the role that the National Athletic Union (NAU) plays in running summer camps, where players are subjected to weeks of intensive training. It was equally fascinating to see what goes into the making of a referee. Who would have guessed that making the top ranks of referees was as competitive and tough as becoming a top player. Gambling rears its ugly head even at the high school level as bookmaker Bobby G conspires with reporter Frank Worrell to suck bettors into his scheme and make a killing in the playoffs. All of these elements come together at the end to make for an exciting and violent climax.
The editing for my Kindle version was very good. I did notice an occasional typo, but not enough to affect my enjoyment of the book.
Bottom line: A very enjoyable book with an engaging story, interesting characters, and an exciting build-up to a dramatic climax.
by J Chalmers
The cast of characters includes Jamal Imari, a talented young basketball player with a burning desire to play in college; his father Marcus, who helps with his coaching; Jamal's mother Elizabeth, who turns elsewhere for love as her marriage to Marcus falls apart; Billy Rechter, a high school basketball referee; Frank Worrell, a newspaper reporter who gets caught up in a gambling scheme engineered by Bobby G, a former gangbanger who now has a lucrative bookmaking business; Nancy Kapist, a newspaper editor who's Frank Worrell's boss and part-time lover; and Scott Venturi, the coach of Jamal's high school team who will do anything to get a college coaching job, even if it means using Jamal to get it. All these characters' lives are intertwined against the backdrop of big-city basketball as Jamal goes through the system from grade school through high school.
The author obviously has firsthand knowledge of high school basketball. It was fascinating to go behind-the-scenes to learn how players are recruited and brought up through the system. I learned about the role that the National Athletic Union (NAU) plays in running summer camps, where players are subjected to weeks of intensive training. It was equally fascinating to see what goes into the making of a referee. Who would have guessed that making the top ranks of referees was as competitive and tough as becoming a top player. Gambling rears its ugly head even at the high school level as bookmaker Bobby G conspires with reporter Frank Worrell to suck bettors into his scheme and make a killing in the playoffs. All of these elements come together at the end to make for an exciting and violent climax.
The editing for my Kindle version was very good. I did notice an occasional typo, but not enough to affect my enjoyment of the book.
Bottom line: A very enjoyable book with an engaging story, interesting characters, and an exciting build-up to a dramatic climax.
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Thanks Jim... glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the kind words!
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A coach just invited me to speak at his high school team's end of season banquet. He read my book, and wants a light hearted after-dinner speech. I'm thrilled to do it, and he is going to buy a copy of my book for each of his players. I am over the moon.
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Celebrate basketball's best month - March Madness and read my whodunit thriller, Advantage Disadvantage for free. Download the ebook version on Smashwords.com using my 100% off (free) coupon: AP39F
Here's one of the Amazon reviews:
"Advantage / Disadvantage is a cleverly interwoven tale of High School athletes who are unwittingly taken in by the sleazy characters that cling to the periphery of organized sports, and profit from them by means of greed and deception.
This book was eye - opening and shocking, and at other times touching and surprising - but never was it boring. The characters inspired hope as well as loathing, and made me think that High School athletics might not be as simple and innocent as we are led to believe. Once I started reading, I couldn't put it down. I can't wait for the sequel. Well done, Mr. Jaffe!" by David Shapiro
Enjoy my novel - your feedback is always welcome. Act now, the code expires soon! AP39F
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Here's one of the Amazon reviews:
"Advantage / Disadvantage is a cleverly interwoven tale of High School athletes who are unwittingly taken in by the sleazy characters that cling to the periphery of organized sports, and profit from them by means of greed and deception.
This book was eye - opening and shocking, and at other times touching and surprising - but never was it boring. The characters inspired hope as well as loathing, and made me think that High School athletics might not be as simple and innocent as we are led to believe. Once I started reading, I couldn't put it down. I can't wait for the sequel. Well done, Mr. Jaffe!" by David Shapiro
Enjoy my novel - your feedback is always welcome. Act now, the code expires soon! AP39F
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Happy reading.....March Madness!!!
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A 5 star review about this book:
Those immersed in the basketball community will read "Advantage Disadvantage" and recognize many of the "usual suspects" and familiar situations that will make you chuckle... or bring your emotions to anger, disgust, sadness, excitement, and joy. Readers foreign to the world of hoops will gain some insight into the machinations of prep basketball, recruiting, officiating, and the cracks in the system that allows the slime to sometimes find it's way into our beautiful game.
"Advantage Disadvantage" is a fictional tale with high school basketball as the backdrop for an intriguing story of a cast of characters that challenges you to examine the purity of amateur sports. We get to know some individuals who are faced with some very real life temptations and we follow them while they try to reconcile right from wrong - all while wondering whether their decisions will prove to be an Advantage or a Disadvantage.
Smashwords and Kindle for 99 cents!
Those immersed in the basketball community will read "Advantage Disadvantage" and recognize many of the "usual suspects" and familiar situations that will make you chuckle... or bring your emotions to anger, disgust, sadness, excitement, and joy. Readers foreign to the world of hoops will gain some insight into the machinations of prep basketball, recruiting, officiating, and the cracks in the system that allows the slime to sometimes find it's way into our beautiful game.
"Advantage Disadvantage" is a fictional tale with high school basketball as the backdrop for an intriguing story of a cast of characters that challenges you to examine the purity of amateur sports. We get to know some individuals who are faced with some very real life temptations and we follow them while they try to reconcile right from wrong - all while wondering whether their decisions will prove to be an Advantage or a Disadvantage.
Smashwords and Kindle for 99 cents!
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