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Abraham Aamidor's newest collection of short stories, Don't Go, features speculative and realistic fiction together, creating a balanced body of original stories. Inspired by the Hermann Hesse classic, this quest for meaning begins in a trailer park with a pimply-faced young man. A computer "nerd" tries to get a date with the beautiful daughter of his landlord. A religious boy protests the Biblical story, why would Isaac have even submitted to...

Chuck Taylor was involved with "industrial league" basketball in the 1920s, working as a wartime coach with the Army Air Force, and organizing clinic after clinic. He was a true "ambassador of basketball" in Europe and South America as well as all over the United States. This biography seeks to learn the true story of Chuck Taylor.

Real Feature Writing" emphasizes story shape and structure by illustrating several distinct types of feature and non-fiction stories, all drawn from the real world. Author Abraham Aamidor presents a collection of distinct non-deadline story types (

For upper-level journalism students, freelance writers, and journalists, this guide provides writing techniques for common types of feature stories in US newspapers. Former journalist and teacher Aamidor--with seven contributors who are editors, journalists, writers, and journalism professors--discusses profiles, the news peg, and trend, focus, ann

In 1921, Converse hired 20-year-old Chuck Taylor as a salesman, sparking a nearly 50-year career that defined the Converse All Star basketball shoe. Although his name is on the label of the legendary All Stars, which have been worn by hundreds of millions, little is known about the man behind the name. For this biography, Abe Aamidor went on a three-year quest to learn the true story of Chuck Taylor. The search took him across the country, tra...

If you want to know how something is done, why not ask an expert? "For Real Sports Reporting, journalist Abraham Aamidor recruited top sportswriters and editors from major media outlets, including the "Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Denver Post, and "Indianapolis Star, to write about their experiences and lessons learned. The result is an engaging, informative, highly personal look at the real-life work of the spor...