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.
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2023 Book ExpoCoach in Cottage C – a hit at the largest book sale in The Villages! [read more]
All Booked Up Bookstore Exhibits Recent Works by Villages AuthorsMarch-April 2021 All Booked Up, a bookstore located at 271 Colony Blvd. in The Villages, will feature a new set of [read more]
Sumter County Library December 1, 2020Author J.R. Minard, delighted a Zoom audience on December 1, 2019 with an inside view of “Coach in Cottage [read more]
J.R. Minard Interview: “Coach in Cottage C” Historical FictionA long time Florida resident, J.R. Minard taught in high school and junior college classrooms and raised two teenage [read more]
Tallahassee DemocratMillions of readers recently devoured Colson Whitehead’s bestselling novel, “Nickel Boys,” but no doubt Tallahasseeans [read more]