Hardball
by Victoria Stewart

What happens when news becomes entertainment and politics become a performance?

Virginia Eames, an aspiring political pundit, attempts to negotiate her way through the constantly shifting landscape of cutthroat commentary and learns what it takes to be a star.“Nice girls do not finish first in Victoria Stewart’s trenchant and entertaining topical drama, HARDBALL.

Girls with the sharpest elbows do… [and] Virginia has a pair of elbows that could splinter concrete… Smart, persuasive and nervy in its view of opinion journalism run amok.

Stewart clearly boned up on Fox News, CNN and MSNBC gabfests… HARDBALL incisively dissects the inside game of media punditry—and exposes it as, at worst, a zero-sum game for us all.”

Misha Berson, The Seattle Times