Official Sports Picks Up Referee's Survival Guide

Official Sports International, one of the world's largest suppliers of referee equipment, has reached an agreement with New Alexandria Press to carry Jeffrey Caminsky's Referee Survival Guide.

The book, released to critical acclaim last year, has emerged as one of the standards in the field of soccer officiating, generating worldwide recognition and steadily increasing sales. Holiday sales of the book through OSI have already exceeded the company's expectations, and look to continue into the New Year.

Referee's Survival Guide Booksigning

Jeffrey Caminsky, a veteran soccer official, appeared at the Novi soccer referee recertification clinic on Saturday, November 15, 2008, signing copies of The Referee's Survival Guide, his acclaimed book on soccer officiating. Two complimentary copies of the book were awarded to the two youth officials who received the highest score on their recertification test, and other copies were available for referees who wanted to purchase them.

"I always like to help younger officials to rise through the ranks," said Caminsky, a state referee emeritus and former club assignor for the Michigan Wolves and Hawks. "One of my proudest achievements was to see two of my kids acknowledged as the 'Young Referee of the Year,' and part of the reason I wrote my soccer book was to help new officials learn some of the tricks of the trade more quickly than I managed, during my early years as a referee."

The Referee's Survival Guide is available online at Amazon, as well as directly from the publisher. The book will be available soon from Official Sports International, the world's largest referee supply company, which recently completed an agreement with the publisher to stock the book on its website.

Booksigning by Jeffrey Caminsky at Frank Murphy Hall of Justice

Michigan author Jeffrey Caminsky marked the release of his latest books by holding a lunch-time booksigning for friends and colleagues at the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice in downtown Detroit.

Caminsky, an assistant Wayne County prosecutor, appeared at a Pop and Pizza event in the building that houses the criminal courts for the city of Detroit. Among the books offered was his newest novel, The Star Dancers, the latest book in his Guardians of Peace science fiction series. Also offered were The Sirens of Space, the first novel in the series, The Sonnets of William Shakespeare, his book on Elizabethan poetry, The Referee's Survival Guide, his book on soccer officiating, and All Fathers Are Giants, a collection of his father's short stories.

The event was well-attended, with many members of the staff stopping by to make a purchase, wish him well, or simply to eat pizza.

Sales were brisk, but the event soon ran out of pizza.