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I write fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Recipient of the 2024 SABR Dorothy Seymour Mills Lifetime Achievement Award. Latest book: Exit Velocity.
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Mule Book Receives a Title
Email from Barbara Gregorich Onward! Barbara Gregorich Newsletter Ballad of the Horse and Mule Although I’ve been calling it “the mule book” since 2003, when I started writing it, that does not work
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November 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Thanks to long-time friend and fellow writer Robin Koontz, who created this trailer for Jack and Larry ten years ago. #Baseball #BaseballLife #BaseballBooks #bullterriers #BullTerrierBooks #WritingLife #WritingCommunity #DogBooks www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEOa...
Jack and Larry - Jack Graney and Larry, the Cleveland Baseball Dog
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November 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Thanks to long-time friend and fellow writer Robin Koontz, who created this trailer for Jack and Larry ten years ago. #Baseball #BaseballLife #BaseballBooks #bullterriers #BullTerrierBooks #WritingLife #WritingCommunity #DogBooks www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEOa...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
FREE EBOOK on Amazon November 12-16— Sample chapters from FIVE different novels. #FreeEbooks #Fiction #BaseballBooks #WomeninBaseball #RadicalThought #Mystery #ReadingCommunity #SpeculativeFiction #SocialJustice #BookClubs tinyurl.com/35cby2cx
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November 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Interesting parallels. #writingcommunity #ScienceFiction #WomenResist #SocialJustice #socialjusticebooks #WritingLife #resistance #resistanceleaders #leaders barbaragregorich.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/e...
Exit Velocity and Parable of the Sower
Several of the people who reviewed my 2024 science-fiction/political-fiction novel, Exit Velocity, compared it to Octavia Butler’s The Parable of the Sower. I had read Butler’s Lilith’s Brood trilo…
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November 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Celebrate National Immigrants Day — March for Social Justice — Read The F Words. @cityoflightpublisher #NationalImmigrantsDay #YANovel #SocialJustice #Diversity #BooksWithPoems #SocialChange #Friendship #YAMalePOV #TeenBoys www.wroteby.me/barbaragrego...
October 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Celebrate National Pumpkin Day — March for Social Justice — Read The F Words. @cityoflightpublisher #NationalPumpkinDay #YANovel #SocialJustice #Diversity #BooksWithPoems #SocialChange #Friendship #YAMalePOV #TeenBoys www.wroteby.me/barbaragrego...
October 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Celebrate National Pumpkin Day — March for Social Justice — Read The F Words. @cityoflightpublisher #NationalPumpkinDay #YANovel #SocialJustice #Diversity #BooksWithPoems #SocialChange #Friendship #YAMalePOV #TeenBoys www.wroteby.me/barbaragrego...
Yesterday Wordpress notified me that I had a sudden “surge” of hits on my blog post on Clem and Edna Dreisewerd, from way back on April 15, 2016. #Baseball #Dreisewerd #ClemDreisewerd #WomenInBaseball #WritingAboutBaseball #Blogs #BaseballHistory barbaragregorich.wordpress.com/2016/04/15/b...
Battery Operated: Clem and Edna Dreisewerd
As any writer knows, only a small percentage of research done on a subject ends up in the published book. That’s for the good of the reader, who deserves a well-told, gripping story, not a collecti…
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October 24, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Yesterday Wordpress notified me that I had a sudden “surge” of hits on my blog post on Clem and Edna Dreisewerd, from way back on April 15, 2016. #Baseball #Dreisewerd #ClemDreisewerd #WomenInBaseball #WritingAboutBaseball #Blogs #BaseballHistory barbaragregorich.wordpress.com/2016/04/15/b...
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New Hat and Book Cover
Email from Barbara Gregorich Adventures in Self-Publishing Barbara Gregorich Newsletter ALWAYS 99 CENTS This is the only one of my many books that features me on the front cover! And that wasn’t
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October 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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October 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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And Then: Connectors in a Ballad barbaragregorich.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/a... #conjunctions #partsofspeech #grammar #writinglife #writingcommunity #essays #blogs #poetry #ballads
And Then: Connectors in a Ballad
In speaking of connectors I’m not talking about influencers: I’m talking about conjunctions — words which show relationships between things. I’ve never thought much about these words (also, however…
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October 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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October 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Email from Barbara Gregorich Down with Obscurity! Barbara Gregorich Newsletter 50% Off, October 7-12 $3.99, Now $1.99 Amazon Ground-Breaking Work When it was published in 1993, Women at Play:
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October 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Music, Mystery, Murder! #MysteryNovel #PrivateEye #BookRecommendations #writing #humor #WritingLife #WritingCommunity #RuralSetting #PigsinLiterature www.wroteby.me/barbaragrego...
October 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
My current blog, on the wonderful CONvergence Conference of this past July. #sciencefiction #SpeculativeFiction #SciFi #WritingCommunity #BloggingCommunity #WritingLife #SellingBooks #Conferences barbaragregorich.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/2...
2025 CONvergence SciFi Convention
CONvergence, held in Minneapolis, is a convention for science fiction and fantasy fans in all media. It began in 1999 and has been going strong since. Some time in November of 2024, maybe aft…
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October 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
My current blog, on the wonderful CONvergence Conference of this past July. #sciencefiction #SpeculativeFiction #SciFi #WritingCommunity #BloggingCommunity #WritingLife #SellingBooks #Conferences barbaragregorich.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/2...
Amazon is selling my sci-fi/social-justice novel Exit Velocity for $15 (list price $18) for a limited time only. Think holiday gifts! #fiction #FictionAddict #books #novels #socialjustice #workingclass tinyurl.com/4x6xmyvm
September 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Amazon is selling my sci-fi/social-justice novel Exit Velocity for $15 (list price $18) for a limited time only. Think holiday gifts! #fiction #FictionAddict #books #novels #socialjustice #workingclass tinyurl.com/4x6xmyvm
By age 10 Edith Houghton was playing on the Philadelphia Bobbies, a girls team that played against men. By 13 she and the other Bobbies were sailing to Japan to play against men’s teams.
September 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
By age 10 Edith Houghton was playing on the Philadelphia Bobbies, a girls team that played against men. By 13 she and the other Bobbies were sailing to Japan to play against men’s teams.
My most recent video, this on murder, mystery, music . . . and pet pigs. #MusicMystery #MysteryNovels #PetPigs #MusicFestivals #IllinoisMysteries youtu.be/1NnxvHpruqY?...
Sound Proof — Music, Murder, Mystery, and a Pet Pig #MysteryNovels #FolkMusic #PetPigs
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September 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
My most recent video, this on murder, mystery, music . . . and pet pigs. #MusicMystery #MysteryNovels #PetPigs #MusicFestivals #IllinoisMysteries youtu.be/1NnxvHpruqY?...
WORD ORIGINS My most-visited blog of August was on Anglo-Saxon vs. Latin-French words, firstposted in 2020. A relevant topic, apparently. #WritingLife #Writers #WritingCommunity #LiteraryAnalysis #WordOrigins barbaragregorich.wordpress.com/2020/01/01/a...
Anglo-Saxon vs. Latin-French
Approximately 20% (possibly less) of the words in the English language come from Anglo-Saxon roots. Approximately 60% come from Latin, but indirectly — usually through French. The words…
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September 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
WORD ORIGINS My most-visited blog of August was on Anglo-Saxon vs. Latin-French words, firstposted in 2020. A relevant topic, apparently. #WritingLife #Writers #WritingCommunity #LiteraryAnalysis #WordOrigins barbaragregorich.wordpress.com/2020/01/01/a...
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Cold Stones Tremble
Email from Barbara Gregorich But Dare to Hug! Barbara Gregorich Newsletter What Inspires a Writer? Just about anything. I once wrote a collection of twenty-some poems about Inuit-carved stone bears,
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September 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Sharing my most recent blog. #sciencefiction #SpeculativeFiction #SciFi #WritingCommunity #BloggingCommunity #WritingLife barbaragregorich.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/e...
Exploring Science Fiction Subgenres
In a previous blog post, “Rediscovering Science Fiction,” I wrote about how and why I returned to reading science fiction. In this post I’ll talk about themes I’m discerning as I read. There are, I…
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September 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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September 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Amazon has a temporary price reduction on Exit Velocity, don't know for how long. #SpeculativeFiction #SocialJustice #Reading #BookShelf #BookClubs www.amazon.com/Exit-Velocit...
Exit Velocity: A Novel
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September 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Amazon has a temporary price reduction on Exit Velocity, don't know for how long. #SpeculativeFiction #SocialJustice #Reading #BookShelf #BookClubs www.amazon.com/Exit-Velocit...
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September 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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