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Ron Seybold is the author of the novels Sins of Liberty and Viral Times, as well as his fatherhood+baseball memoir Stealing Home. He is director of Austin's Writer's Workshop, coaching and editing authors who create books in fiction and nonfiction; an interviewer for Austin Liti Limits; as well as a Community Member of the Writers' League of Texas. His newsletter and Substack, The Write Stuff, has been serving writers each Friday for more than four years. A graduate of the University of Texas journalism program and a US Army veteran, he helps authors develop their stories for publication. With his wife, the yoga teacher Abby Lentz, he lives and writes in Austin, an oasis where the grandchildren visit and the family poodle Ella campaigns for ...more

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	Stealing Home: A Father, a Son, and the Road to the Perfect Game 4.62 avg rating — 26 ratings — 4 editions	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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