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Coach K by Ian O'Connor PDF DownloadCoach K by Ian O'Connor KINDLECoach K by Ian O'Connor EBOOKCoach K by Ian O'Connor EPUBCoach K by Ian O'Connor Read onlineCoach K by Ian O'Connor Full PDFBook Description: The definitive biography of college basketball’s all-time winningest coach,Mike KrzyzewskiMike Krzyzewski, known worldwide as “Coach K,” is a five-time national champion at Duke, theNCAA's all-time leader in victories with nearly 1,200, and the first man to lead Team USA to threeOlympic basketball gold medals. Through unprecedented access to Krzyzewski’s best friends, closestadvisers, fiercest adversaries, and generations of his players and assistants, three-time New YorkTimes bestselling author Ian O’Connor takes you behind the Blue Devil curtain with a penetratingexamination of the great, but flawed leader as he closes out his iconic career.Krzyzewski built a staggering basketball empire that has endured for more than four decades, placinghim among the all-time titans of American sport, and yet there has never been a defining portrait ofthe coach and his program. Until now. O’Connor uses scores of interviews with those who knowKrzyzewski best to deliver previously untold stories about the relationships that define the venerableCoach K, including the one with his volcanic mentor, Bob Knight, that died a premature death.Krzyzewski was always driven by an inner rage fueled by his tough Chicago upbringing, and by theblue-collar Polish-American parents who raised him to fight for a better life. As the retiring Coach Kmakes his final stand, vying for one more ring during the 2021-2022 season before saying goodbye atage 75, O’Connor shows you sides of the man and his methods that will surprise even the mostdedicated Duke fan.“Basketball fans might feel as though they already know Coach K – or Mike Krzyzewski, the decadeslongcoach of the Duke Blue Devils who’s set to retire after this season. In this insightful biography,sportswriter O’Connor captures the formative experiences and inner drive that catapulted the coachto icon status. Even the most die-hard fans will learn something.”-The Washington Post=====================================================================As a young writer, my naiveté about the publishing process nearly led me to financial ruin.Here’s how to avoid my mistakes.The first thing I tell debut authors is this: Assume nothing.If just one person had sat me down when I signed my first book contract and explained howpublishing works, how nothing is guaranteed, and how it often feels like playing RussianRoulette with words, I would have made much sounder financial and creative decisions. Iwould have set a foundation for a healthy life as an artist, laying the groundwork to thrive in
uncertainty, to avoid desperation, panic, and bad decisions that would affect me for years tocome.How would my life be different if a fellow writer or someone in the industry had told me thatthe money I’d be receiving for my advances was absolutely no indication of what I couldmake on future book deals? What pain could I have avoided if they had advised me not tospend that money as though there would be more where that came from? I suspect I mayhave avoided a near nervous breakdown and not come so perilously close to financial ruinand creative burnout. But no one came forward.Let me back up. One of the most respected publishing houses in the world gave me$100,000 to write two books, one of which was already finished, and I was feeling… well,fancy.As a kid who’d once stood in line with her mother to get food stamps, I could not believe thefigures in my bank account.Now, I want to acknowledge the inherent privilege that I hold as a white, educated,middleclass American. The problems I write about here are “struggles” many people wouldlove to have. They are good problems. Lucky, even. Growing up with a lack of financialliteracy didn’t mean there weren’t opportunities for me out there because of my positioningin the world. I had a leg up, even when it felt like I was in the trenches. Access equalsprivilege, and I understand that. I try hard to acknowledge my privilege and not be part ofthe problem, but didn’t do so explicitly in the original version of this article. Revising is myfavorite part of the writing process, and clearly a big part of my personal life. In fact I wish Icould go back and revise the past six years.I did play it smart, though: I didn’t quit my day job, and wrote a larger-than-usual check tomy student loan company when the advance came through. I didn’t know if this was aonetime thing or not.Each new book is like a weekend in Vegas: Maybe I’ll get lucky, maybe I won’t.But when I sold a trilogy to another publisher the following year for over $250,000 dollars(even now I cannot believe I wrote that sentence and, furthermore, that it’s true), I reallythought I had made it — forever, not just for a moment. Not for this one book deal. Forever.Otherwise, I reasoned, they would never have paid me such enormous sums. Thesepublishers must be investing in me for the long run. I was one of their own.It had happened twice in a row, these six-figures: Surely I had somehow become one of thechosen few. After years of research and struggle to break out in such a ferociouslycompetitive industry, I’d somehow come out ahead.But in that process, I’d somehow missed several critical aspects of the business, and thatwas on me (to some extent). Surely there were writers who had gotten the memo abouthow advances worked, and the ins and outs of publishing. But so much of an aspiringwriter’s life — and so many of the resources available to them — is focused on getting thatfirst book deal. What came after was beside the point.It would also be fair to say that the same energy and drive that had landed me a book dealin the first place guided much of my decision-making process in ways that weren’t always
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