Roberta Isleib’s Backstory for FAIRWAY TO HEAVEN |
How Pinehurst Became a Character in a Murder Mystery --Published in Mystery
Scene and Backstory blog |
| Bidding for Major Takes Toll on Psyche |
--an article about the mental pressure
of playing in the US Open (first published in the New Haven Register, July
2004) |
| How I Write |
--first published in Mystery Morgue, February 2004 |
| Surviving Your Rookie Green Chair |
--first published by Golf Course Management in December, 2003 |
| Diary
of an Agatha Nominee |
--the roller coaster ride of the mystery
award nomination process (first published in the New England Sisters
in Crime Newsletter, October, 2003) |
| Going
to School |
--What you can learn from the LPGA Qualifying
School (first published in Tee Time Magazine, Spring 2003) |
| A
Drop in the Bucket |
--my experience
on a telephone hotline after 9/11 |
| Unscrambling
the Scramble |
--squeeze the most fun
out of this social golf format (first published in Tee Time Magazine,
Spring 2001)
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| Raising
your Competition IQ |
--identify and shape your
competitive style
|
| Choke
your Inner Choker |
--prevent your expectations
on the golf course from backfiring (published in Women's World of
Golf, May 2002)
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| Golf
Lessons |
--a horrendous round of
golf teaches me lessons about life (first published in Tee Time
Magazine, June 2002)
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| Someone's
in the Kitchen with Cassie |
--or why I don't
write culinary mysteries (first published in Mystery Readers Journal,
Fall 2002) |
| The
(Golf) Doctor is In |
--how I used my
background in clinical psychology to create my sports psychologist
character (first published in ESPNews, Spring 2002) |
| Can
you Get Here from There? |
--my path to publication (first published
on Myshelf.com) |