Book writing can be excruciating. It can also turn into an obsession since that’s often the only way to get it done. There are no promises on how the book will be received or how it will sell. If it sells at all. And yet, there are few things as gratifying as hitting send on that manuscript once the final page is written.
To help celebrate Sports Books Week at The Athletic, we asked a few of our authors to take us through the process. The ideas. The reporting. The shameless self-promotion. Writers at The Athletic have written nearly more than 85 books, and you can find their work listed at the bottom of this story. For this project, we asked seven to take us through the process:
Craig Custance
“Behind the Bench: Inside the Minds of Hockey’s Greatest Coaches”
Kavitha Davidson
“Loving Sports When They Don’t Love You Back: Dilemmas of the Modern Fan” (publication scheduled for September)
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