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As the hockey season gets closer, I will be releasing my first e-book. This will be my third book, as I previously released  World Cup of Hockey: A History of Hockey's Greatest Tournament  (with the incomparable Patrick Houda) and  The Legends of Team Canada  to store bookshelves via Warwick Publishing.. Other than to say it will be a collection of stories with as much of a personal touch as possible, I will be releasing more information about my e-book as the season nears. I have not settled on a title just yet, but project is something along the lines of James Duthie meets Jack Falla. Since this is my first e-book, I wanted to play with the software to familiarize myself with the process. As such, I have released a small e-book  Greatest Hockey Legends of the Winnipeg Jets  simply for practice purposes. It is a small project, and really is nothing like my main e-book I will be releasing later. I will leave the Jets e-book available for now, a...

As they do every year, the National Hockey League and Fenn/M&S had prepared all spring for a quick-to-market book about the 2011 Stanley Cup champions. A couple of weeks after the Boston Bruins won the Stanley Cup, they released The Year of the Bruins . Of course, the editors had to be equally prepared for the eventuality that the Vancouver Canucks had won the Cup. Using the same template and format, they prepared just such a book. They even made the mistake of releasing the cover and listing it online. Take a look . That book never made it to market, needless to say. But after having the book prepared minus the storybook ending, the NHL and publishers decided to cash in on the Canadian marketplace and release the book as  Celebrating the 2010-2011 Season of the Vancouver Canucks . Buy The Book: Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com That's nice of the, although I'm sure every Vancouver Canucks fan would tell you they would much rather have seen the book that was never...

My latest summer 2011 campfire read is McClelland and Stewart's 2007 release King of Russia: a Year in the Russian Super League . It chronicles Canadian hockey coaching legend Dave King's journey to the Ural Mountains to become the first Canadian coach in Russia. The book is based on King's daily diary, typically meticulous and refreshingly open, and polished up beautifully by The Globe and Mail's ace hockey reporter Eric Duhatschek . Buy the Book: Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com   I personally consider Duhatschek to be the best hockey journalist out there for quite some time. Not only is he incredibly connected, thorough and respected, but he's got an easy to read and captivating writing style. So I guess I shouldn't have been so surprised how easily I was drawn into the text. But I was very pleasantly surprised just how compelling and fascinating the text is. One biography or well written autobiography that I've always wanted to read ...