Inspired by the personal experience of Florida State University star quarterback, Victor Prinzi, Rosemary Imregi and J. R. Minard’s debut novel captures the underlying heartbeat of a Florida reform school in 1961.
“Coach in Cottage C” is a passionate story of an exceptional character confronting despair and hopelessness, but also details the friendship, trust and joy in the creation of an unlikely Florida high school football team. [Read more]
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Coach Matt Grazi, the main character in “Coach in Cottage C,” is a star college football player who comes face to face with the reality his dream of a career in professional football is over. Trying to find some worth in the time he has spent on the gridiron, and determined to somehow keep football in his life, he lands in one of the most unlikely of places, a facility in the Florida juvenile justice system.
- Book Expo 2024
Since 2015, WLOV has produced the Central Florida Book & Author Expo. “Coach in Cottage C,” is a highlight that reveals an untold story in Florida history. A first time coach finds he and a teenage delinquent must fight for much more than a football game at one of theContinue Reading - 2023 Book Expo
Coach in Cottage C – a hit at the largest book sale in The Villages!Continue Reading - All Booked Up Bookstore Exhibits Recent Works by Villages Authors
March-April 2021 All Booked Up, a bookstore located at 271 Colony Blvd. in The Villages, will feature a new set of books written by authors in The Villages. The store features books by members of the Writers League of The Villages club every two months and includes a variety ofContinue Reading - Sumter County Library December 1, 2020
Author J.R. Minard, delighted a Zoom audience on December 1, 2019 with an inside view of “Coach in Cottage C”, a novel she wrote with co-author Rosemary Imregi. Her teaching experience in public schools and at the Job Corps assisted her in her quest to get “inside” the heads ofContinue Reading - J.R. Minard Interview: “Coach in Cottage C” Historical Fiction
A long time Florida resident, J.R. Minard taught in high school and junior college classrooms and raised two teenage daughters. She later became part of the faculty at the Job Corps in Charles Town, WV and taught the GED program to young men and women who wished to complete theirContinue Reading