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The Ranch

The Ranch, by Erick T. Rhetts, available on Amazon as an E-book and paperback As the author of multiple titles based on the infamous Skinwalker Ranch in Utah, the topic of The Secrets of Skinwalker Ranch, a television series on The History Channel, and the ghostwriter of no less than four other titles, all for…

Skinwalker Ranch

The Skinwalker Ranch, a ranch property popularized by numerous books and a TV series, The Secrets of Skinwalker Ranch, is thought to be both the location of a portal or portals to alternate planes or dimensions and a center of paranormal and supernatural activity associated with indigenous lore. My first experience with the ranch came…

Bethany Broom

Bethany Broom is the main character in the King Tree novels, of which there are three, currently: Into the Four Lands, Back to the Four lands and Beyond the Four lands. Each, also, has a sub-title: Altars of Fire and Water, Altars of Earth and Stone and Altars of Wind and Ice, all by Erick…

The launch angle, a misguided approach

Launch angle refers to the angle at which a batted ball leaves the bat and is inclusive of the trajectory the ball then follows. The laws of physics establish that a ball with a thirty-degree trajectory off the bat, all things equal, travels the furthest. MLB and its fans love the homerun. Based on this…

A Realistic Approach to Coaching Amateur Baseball

Thanks to a friend of mine who I’ve known for going on forty years–all through baseball, I had the opportunity to go down to the Dominican Republic and spend some time in a number of MLB baseball academies. These included the Chicago Cubs, Minnesota Twins, Houston Astros, Arizona Diamond Backs, Seattle Mariners and the Philadelphia…

Erick T. Rhetts, The Shadow Walkers

Before I sat down to write The Shadow Walkers, I was thinking along the lines of traditional horror. The setting, I had already decided, was to be the long-since abandoned property of the Pilgrim State Psychiatric Center in Long Island, a collection of derelict buildings with a lingering and dark history. Opened in 1931, the…

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I am a fan of both baseball and fiction writing. My goal for this blog is to promote both, with a admittedly self-serving hope of encouraging readers to engage with my titles. As an independent publisher–Indie publishing, as it is called, the challenge is in promoting and getting word out about the work. I publish…