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We are so Mediocre Pro

A collection of stories about one crazy group of adults that takes hockey way too seriously for their age

Why do they do it? Isn't it too late to get any good?

This companion site

This site is meant to provide some behind the scenes content and round out the characters and the Early Birds as a group

Hopefully, you'll find some "Aha" moments along the way

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Team Updates

Interesting updates regarding the characters we've all come to love, who knows? I might slip up and reveal real names by accident one day.

Author’s Notes

My personal thoughts, and cool things I have done in the writing of this book, including the secret of the spreadsheet

This may seem a bit like a tech blog

Games & Quizzes

Lightweight interactive bits, adding some flavor to the characters

Store Links

Interested in gifting some custom copies? Check out the various editions here

This book was the result of misguided positive reinforcement.

I'm so glad I went in blind, thinking I could do this. I mean who do I think I am?

The book itself started off with my wanting to include all my friends who coudldn't make it to our weekly pickup hockey sessions and missed out on all the fun moments that happened. One day, I just said to myself: "This would've been such a great premise for an anime." Sports, but not about a special talent, not about teenagers. It's about older people with jobs, just trying to enjoy themselves.

Then I decided to ask AI what it took

Making an anime would would take way too much effort. Then I paid OpenAI for a pro subscription to analyze my content. It told me this could be so good. And I believed it...

It lied

I realized how bad it actually was when I started editing: "This is what you said was good? Are you kidding?"

But I'm glad I bought into positivity

Because it actually is really good now!

You might even want different copies as gifts, which begs the question

Who plans a book like they are releasing a pokemon game?

See the secret of how I made it possible to create different versions of the book within minutes.