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The Whole Ball Game
by Truc Schell
2026 Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards Entry
Set in small-town Vermont during the late 1970s and early 1980s, The Whole Ball Game follows Tommy Cram and Chelsea Spencer through friendship, first love, family, loss, and the choices that shape a lifetime. Growing up isn’t measured by age alone—it’s measured by the moments that shape who we become.
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Crafted to win the whole ball game!
Building a new life across the Atlantic!
Figurehead Following
by Truc Schell
In 1702, Mathew Cobb leaves Scotland and boards the schooner Florence, bound for Boston and an uncertain future. Across dangerous seas and a raw new world, he finds opportunity, love, and the courage to build a life far from everything he has ever known.
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A single ski season, a whole new life!
Backboard
by Truc Schell
At thirty-eight, John steps into the demanding world of ski patrol. One unforgettable season of grueling training, mountain rescues, hard-earned friendships, heartbreaking loss, and unexpected love challenges everything he thought he knew about courage and belonging. By season’s end, he discovers that the life he never knew he was searching for has been waiting up on a mountain he didn’t know was already part of his soul.
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They Only Came for Christmas...
Truc Schell
Ted Lamont wasn't looking to change his life. Emma Carson wasn't looking for anyone to change hers.
He was a Boston bartender with more ability than ambition. She was a successful designer recovering from a humiliating relationship. A chance meeting in a Boston pub should have been nothing more than that. Instead, one evening becomes another, an unexpected weekend in Vermont brings two very different worlds together, and suddenly neither of them is quite as certain about the future they thought they had planned.
But falling in love may prove to be the easy part.
Careers shift. Families collide. Old troubles refuse to stay buried. And as Ted and Emma begin building a life neither saw coming, circumstances repeatedly remind them just how quickly everything can change.
From Boston to the mountains of Vermont, They Only Came for Christmas… is a story of love, family, second chances, and discovering that sometimes the life you never planned is the one you were meant to find.
After all…
They only came for Christmas…