<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Jason Curlee]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jason Curlee is a novelist writing 1980s small-town coming-of-age fiction. He grew up in Edna, Texas, under the same Friday night lights his stories are built on — a former high school football player turned teacher, coach, and author. His Beyond the Goalposts series follows a Texas football team through a season that tests the players, their families, and the town that lives and dies on every game. His books are about friendship, love, small-town pressure, and the space between who we perform and who we really are.]]></description><link>https://www.jasoncurlee.com/behind-the-stories</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 02:07:30 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.jasoncurlee.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The Book Inspired An Album]]></title><description><![CDATA[Over the past few weeks I've been working on an album for my Beyond The Goalposts world. Let me tell you how that all came about. So it all started with me wanting to create one song. My main female character, Amber Brown, had a dream of being a singer. Well I thought, why not make her one. Why not create a song based off a small note she wrote Matt in Book Two, Edge of Almost.  Well I sat down and did that. But then I was stuck. I'm not female. I don't play instruments. I don't have the...]]></description><link>https://www.jasoncurlee.com/post/the-book-inspired-an-album</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a44b33951416e35e78827cf</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 06:43:35 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/0d2c83_73929f4f8cd7475bb7b5d0cd4368b37b~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_941,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jason Curlee</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>