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Steve Biddison

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In introducing myself to my readers, it would be easy to give you just the short bio of who I am. I am a teacher and a basketball coach who is married to my wonderful wife, Amy. Together we have one son, Landry. But I have come to find out that in this digital age, readers now want to be able to get to know more about the authors of the books they read. They don't want just facts, they want to know what motivates them. What are their loves? In a world full of facebook, twitter, and email, people want to be able to communicate with others and see them as real human beings. With that thought in mind, I decided to write a little bit about how I came to be an author.

Even in my earliest memories, I was an avid reader. My mother would read to me In introducing myself to my readers, it would be easy to give you just the short bio of who I am. I am a teacher and a basketball coach who is married to my wonderful wife, Amy. Together we have one son, Landry. But I have come to find out that in this digital age, readers now want to be able to get to know more about the authors of the books they read. They don't want just facts, they want to know what motivates them. What are their loves? In a world full of facebook, twitter, and email, people want to be able to communicate with others and see them as real human beings. With that thought in mind, I decided to write a little bit about how I came to be an author.

Even in my earliest memories, I was an avid reader. My mother would read to me almost every night and she is the one who first started teaching me how to read. When I entered kindergarten, I already had a pretty decent grasp on reading and I recall even reading to my classmates from time to time.

Fast forward through elementary school into my junior high years. Although my love for reading never waned, there were other things that began to take my focus and many of those things would be what shaped me for the rest of my life.

First, I began to understand just a little bit of what it meant to have a walk with God. The way I lived out my Christianity would have an extreme impact on the rest of my life.

Secondly, I got very involved in athletics. In junior high, I played football, basketball, tennis, and ran track. I was a year round athlete. By the time I had graduated from college, I had narrowed my athletic focus to one main sport - basketball. Little did I know then that just a few years later I would embark on over two decades of coaching basketball.

Third, I began to channel my love for reading into writing. I think it was the summer between sixth grade and seventh grade that I wrote my first novel. Having been a big fan of the orginal Star Trek series, my first novel was a Star Trek novel entitled, One of Our Captains Is Missing. Okay, I know now that it really wasn't very good. But it was my writing start. I think from that year on, I wrote one novel a year. But they never went further than being written on notebook paper and kept in a binder.

Between my junior and senior year in high school, I began writing a series of novella's that built on one another. I called it The Center Circle Chronicles. It was a story of swords and magic that took place on other worlds. I finished the series by my sophomore year in college and once again it never made it past the binder filled with notebook paper. But unlike many of my other novels, I made sure that I always kept this one. It was something special to me and I wanted one day to return to that series, rewrite it, and make it the series I wanted it to be.

But through the years, I found myself caught up in my career of coaching and my dreams of writing were put on the back burner. However, the inner drive to write never left me as I began to write coaching manuals and other professional related materials. In addition to my coaching booklets, I also wrote devotionals for Christian living.

Even after publishing some of those other books, and seeing them rise in the sales charts, my heart was still drawn to writing fiction and the story that first formed in my mind in high school, The Center Circle, would not leave me. So one day I finally decided to hit the computer and actually type a new manuscript of that story that had been a part of my for several decades.

It is true that the story changed a lot over the first version and the last one. But at its core, it is still the story that had been a part of me for several decades. ...more

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The Greatest Game I Ever Coached

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I swallowed yet another cup of water as my players took the floor for the third round game of the state basketball playoffs, a game that everyone knew we had no business playing. For over a decade, this basketball program resided in the cemetery of the dead and could be considered the laughing stock of the sport. Not only had a winning record eluded them for over a decade, the la

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	Winning Ways Basketball: Effective Zone Offenses for the High School Coach really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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