{"id":32341,"date":"2025-11-04T04:57:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T04:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/32341\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T04:57:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T04:57:37","slug":"st-petersburg-press-brings-together-local-authors-in-typing-one-for-the-team-the-crows-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/32341\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg Press brings together local authors in \u2018Typing One for the Team\u2019 \u2013 The Crow’s Nest"},"content":{"rendered":"

St. Petersburg Press is a local publishing company that helps authors through all steps of the writing, publishing, and promotion process. <\/p>\n

Photo courtesy of Amy J. Cianci\u00a0<\/p>\n

By Irena Mesa<\/p>\n

After working as a fan host at Tropicana Field for 16 years, Bruce Reynolds has plenty of stories to tell. He had enough to pen a novel, \u201cThere Is No Place Like Dome,\u201d which is a collection of his experiences.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Reynolds took his novel to a smaller, more local publisher because the stories are based in St. Petersburg. Dave Mishkin, the current radio play-by-play announcer for the Tampa Bay Lightning, and Mike Nabors, a sports broadcast journalist who now teaches at Florida Southern College, also brought their stories to St. Petersburg Press.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Their publisher, Amy J. Cianci, pitched a book panel to the three authors, and they all readily agreed. For three authors who worked in the wide world of sports, Ferg\u2019s Sports Bar and Grill on October 7 was a fitting location for the event.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe publishing process, the way [St. Petersburg Press does] it is very intense, but a one-on-one experience. So, I love when the authors are then able to share some one those moments with more people,\u201d Cianci said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mishkin began work on his book in the mid 2000\u2019s but he put it on the back burner because he wasn\u2019t happy with the work he was doing. Fast forward to 2022, when the Lightning were facing an early playoff exit, Mishkin considered working on the novel with a longer offseason.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Even though the Lightning\u00a0 wound up extending their playoff run that year , Mishkin still had the motivation to finish what he started, and that work culminated in \u201cBlind Squirrel,\u201d a fiction novel about a hockey player who navigates the trauma of losing his parents after a career-ending injury.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMy hope is that for the people who take the time to get the book and read it is that they are impacted in some positive way, and they enjoy the story,\u201d Mishkin said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nabors took on a different genre, writing \u201cDon\u2019t Quit, Pivot,\u201d about how to find fulfillment in their career.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis book is for all ages. You can be 20 years old, you can be 100 years old, and I think all of us have skills that we really take for granted,\u201d Nabors said. \u201cI thought all I could be in my whole life was a sportscaster, and I realized at the age of 50 that I could do so much more, so now I\u2019m teaching.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Reynold\u2019s book, \u201cThere Is no Place Like Dome,\u201d is a compilation of stories from his time as a fan-host for the Rays. A standout moment that made those pages was assisting a visually impaired child in running the bases after a game.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he got to the field and he could put his cane on the field, his face lit up like a Christmas tree,\u201d Reynolds said. \u201cI\u2019m getting chills now and it\u2019s been 10 years since that happened.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

While their books cover very different topics and genres, they all chose St. Petersburg Press as their publisher because of the opportunities offered from a smaller, locally based publisher.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI never had visions of my book being a great bestseller, and I knew with St. Petersburg Press that it was going to be local because I\u2019m a local guy and the story is local,\u201d Reynolds said. \u201cThere was no sense for me to go to a national place like Amazon because it\u2019s still about St. Pete.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The community of writers like Reynolds, Mishkin, and Nabors is one that Cianci is proud to be a part of.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a lot of amazing talent here in the Tampa Bay area, and some amazing writers no one\u2019s ever heard of,\u201d Cianci said. \u201cWe want to have them in a position where they can share their story with the world. That\u2019s why these events are so special.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n


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