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I write fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Recipient of the 2024 SABR Dorothy Seymour Mills Lifetime Achievement Award. Latest book: Exit Velocity.
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I laughed a lot while writing this blog: hope you laugh, too. #Mules #BooksAboutMules #MuleBooks #WritingCommunity #WritingLife #NewBooks #Ballads #NovellainVerse #Humor #BalladOfTheHorseAndMule barbaragregorich.wordpress.com/2026/01/15/a...
A Mule Is Not a Donkey
Sigh. The title of this blog post is Very. Basic. But, apparently, it’s also Very. Necessary. And that’s because it appears that most Americans don’t know what a mule is. I say “Americans” because …
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January 15, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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I’m so happy to announce that Research Notes for Women at Play, Volume 1 is now available in HARDBACK! #WomenInBaseball #BaseballBooks #Libraries #BaseballLibraries #AcquisitionAlert #BooksForLibraries #LibraryCollection #BaseballHistory #FemaleAthletes tinyurl.com/3u7dxvy9
January 13, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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January 12, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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January 10, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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FREE on Amazon January 9-13. #freebooks #freeebooks #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #essays #eclectic #humor #writinglife #indiepublishing tinyurl.com/bp9ymx48
January 9, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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The first of my two January newsletters. #newsletters. #writinglife #writingcommunity #JackandLarry #baseballbooks #authors #AuthorNewsletters conta.cc/4qWxgZJ
Jack and Larry, 40% Off
Email from Barbara Gregorich A Man, A Dog, A Baseball Team Barbara Gregorich Newsletter   Limited Time Offer January 6-10 40% Off — $10.00, Now $.600   A MAN, A DOG, A BASEBALL TEAM . . AND A BOOK R
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January 6, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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JACK AND LARRY on sale Jan 6-10. Normally $10, now $6. Gift for baseball friends, dog friends, bull terrier fans. #Books #ReducedPrices #BookBargains #BaseballBooks #Cleveland #ClevelandIndians www.wroteby.me/barbaragrego...
January 4, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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FREE on Amazon January 2-6. #FreeBooks #Kindle #ebooks #nonfiction #poetry #PoetrySampler #StoriesInPoetry tinyurl.com/3h5wevfz
January 3, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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Cover reveal! Designed by friend and fellow writer (also illustrator and designer) Robin Koontz. Pub date May 12, 2026. #BookCovers #BalladoftheHorseandMule #MuleBooks #WritingCommunity #WritingLife #NewBooks #Ballads #NovellainVerse
January 2, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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FREE on Amazon Dec 27-31 — Sample chapters from EIGHT different books. #FreeEbooks #Kindle #ebooks #nonfiction #bookclubs #baseballbooks #mysterywriting #sportsmascots
December 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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December 24, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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The second of my two December newsletters. #writinglife #writingcommunity #BookIllustrations #mules #booksaboutmules #authors #authornewsletters #pronouns conta.cc/4q72jRm
Wait 'Til Next Year!
Email from Barbara Gregorich Mule Book Moving Forward Barbara Gregorich Newsletter   Illustrations and Captions At least a year ago I decided that Ballad of the Horse and Mule should contain a few ill
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December 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Crossover books are becoming more popular. #CrossoverBooks #WritingCommunity #WritingLife #Blogs #Essays barbaragregorich.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/b...
Ballad of the Horse and Mule: Crossover Book
Back in 2012 if I typed “crossover book” into a search engine, I got very little information that corresponded to what I was looking for. Maybe no information at all: I simply don’t remember. Today…
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December 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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FREE on Amazon Dec 12-16. #SocialJustice #DiverseBooks #OwnVoices #ReadForChange #JusticeThroughStories #InclusiveReads #BooksforJustice #EqualityInLiterature #ebooks #bookclubs #freebooks tinyurl.com/3u2nab9p
December 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Abolish ICE! #PoinsettiaDay @cityoflightpublishing #YAnovel #TheFWords #teenlit #teenbooks #boysandmen #humanrights #SocialJustice #SocialJusticeFiction #SocialChange #YAMalePOV #TeenBoys
December 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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FREE on Kindle December 2-6. #SocialJustice #DiverseBooks #OwnVoices #ReadForChange #JusticeThroughStories #InclusiveReads #BooksforJustice #EqualityInLiterature #ebooks #freebooks #bookclubs
December 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Final Draft: Adding Hours and Minutes #WritingCommunity #WritingLife #Blogs #Essays #Mules #EnduranceRaces barbaragregorich.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/f... www.wroteby.me/barbaragrego...
Final Draft: Adding Hours and Minutes
I don’t know about you, but when it comes to writing the final draft of a book, I generally have no fear. I know what things to look for in general, ranging from consistency of character names to w…
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December 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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I love this review of #ExitVelocity. #WorkingClassFiction #BlueCollarStories #EverydayHeroes #SocialIssues #RealLifeFiction #ContemporaryFiction #GrannySquares #Donuts www.wroteby.me/barbaragrego...
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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My most recent newsletter. #writinglife #writingcommunity #essays #blogs #mules #booksaboutmules #authors #authornewsletters #booktitles #subtitles conta.cc/4g57ldi
Mule Book Receives a Title
Email from Barbara Gregorich Onward! Barbara Gregorich Newsletter   Ballad of the Horse and Mule Although I’ve been calling it “the mule book” since 2003, when I started writing it, that does not work
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November 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Thanks to long-time friend and fellow writer Robin Koontz, who created this trailer for Jack and Larry ten years ago. #Baseball #BaseballLife #BaseballBooks #bullterriers #BullTerrierBooks #WritingLife #WritingCommunity #DogBooks www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEOa...
Jack and Larry - Jack Graney and Larry, the Cleveland Baseball Dog
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November 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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FREE EBOOK on Amazon November 12-16— Sample chapters from FIVE different novels. #FreeEbooks #Fiction #BaseballBooks #WomeninBaseball #RadicalThought #Mystery #ReadingCommunity #SpeculativeFiction #SocialJustice #BookClubs tinyurl.com/35cby2cx
November 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Missing Baseball already? 100-plus pages of baseball writing, FREE November 5-9 on Amazon. #FreeBooks #BaseballBooks #LoveOfTheGame #BaseballFans #bookclubs #sportsbookclubs #BookRecommendations #WomenInBaseball #ebooks #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity tinyurl.com/mrerx6nj
November 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Was $15, Now $6.99!
Email from Barbara Gregorich And It's Not a Pig in a Poke Barbara Gregorich Newsletter     $15, Now $6.99   Who Is Waltur? Waltur is a bear, the main character in my two early readers published by Hou
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November 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Interesting parallels. #writingcommunity #ScienceFiction #WomenResist #SocialJustice #socialjusticebooks #WritingLife #resistance #resistanceleaders #leaders barbaragregorich.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/e...
Exit Velocity and Parable of the Sower
Several of the people who reviewed my 2024 science-fiction/political-fiction novel, Exit Velocity, compared it to Octavia Butler’s The Parable of the Sower. I had read Butler’s Lilith’s Brood trilo…
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November 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Celebrate National Immigrants Day — March for Social Justice — Read The F Words. @cityoflightpublisher #NationalImmigrantsDay #YANovel #SocialJustice #Diversity #BooksWithPoems #SocialChange #Friendship #YAMalePOV #TeenBoys www.wroteby.me/barbaragrego...
October 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM