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HOME PAGE: www.michaelembry.com
EMAIL ADDRESS: membry@fewpb.net; michael.embry@gmail.com
AUTHOR'S BIO:
Michael Embry is the author of three nonfiction basketball books and five novels including Shooting Star for Wings ePress in 2011. His career includes more than 30 years in journalism as a reporter, sportswriter and editor. He is a member of the U.S. Basketball Writers Association and the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association and serves on the selection committee of the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame. He lives in Frankfort, Ky., with his wife, Mary, and Yorkshire terriers, Baxter and Bucky.
Michael Embry's honest,
open, evocative prose engages readers from the opening sentence and propels
readers along a storyline that leads straight to the heart. One of my must
reads, but be forewarned, once you
start reading A Confidential Man, you
won't want to put it down until you finish.
Love, liaisons, death and
deceit all find their way into the newsroom where sportswriter Chase Elliott
spends his days. Admired for his reticence, Chase fears that the last secret
entrusted to him may hold the key to a friend's mysterious death and may have
put his own life in jeopardy as well. Michael Embry has crafted a treasure of
intrigue and romance in A Confidential Man--a
real page turner by anyone's standards.
Everybody has secrets! You
better be careful who you tell them to. A Confidential Man
by Michael Embry looks at the inner workings of a major newspaper.
Sports columnist Chase Elliott is the “Confidential Man.” He can keep secrets
and give advice. He isn’t like others who love to gossip and some who are direct
pipelines to management.
Some secrets are just too big.
Chase struggles with his own personal responsibility with secrets revealed to
him in confidence. Infidelity and fraudulent news stories become the focus of
ongoing office romances and newspaper politics. What should Chase do? What can
he do?
His friend, Brett Johnson, special sections editor, dies suddenly. The
apparent accident spirals into a murder investigation as each piece of the
puzzle is revealed. The action reaches every corner of the newspaper as you turn
the pages quickly wanting to know more. Michael Embry weaves an exciting story
with shocking revelations. This newspaper will never be the same.
--Peter Hurley,
Shooting Star is more than a novel
about high school basketball although it provides the excitement of a hoops
season in a team's quest for a championship against formidable odds. It also
deals with the problems students face on a day-to-day basis in trying to fit in
the complex world of high school. Michael Embry has crafted a novel for young
adults that's a winner on many levels. -- Mark Maynard, author of
Teamwork: Ashland's 1961 Championship Season
and Mark My Words: Tales of Brandon Webb, O.J. Mayo, and
other Sports Legends of Northeastern Kentucky
Michael Embry's Shooting Star captures the
excitement of Kentucky high school basketball and more. Embry is a proven winner
when it comes to writing about basketball. This novel is sure to please sports
fans of all ages. -- Mike Fields, prep sports editor,
Lexington Herald-Leader