[This week marks the start of the Fall 2023 semester and my 19th year at Fitchburg State. So as ever, I’ve kicked off the semester with preview posts, this time focused on ongoing challenges and leading up to this update on my current book project!]
I’m not
gonna lie, when I planned this series a few months back I was pretty hopeful
that I would have a real update about my
current book project to share in the weekend post. The short answer is that
I don’t, as the project continues to seek a home. It does so under a new name
and frame, however, as Two Sandlots
has evolved into The Celestials’ Last
Game (same subtitle: Baseball,
Bigotry, and the Battle for America). I believe that frame allows me to
lean into the 19th
century baseball stories and histories that are at the
heart of this project, while still connecting to all the other social and
cultural contexts that make the Celestials and their last game so important
(from the Chinese
Educational Mission and Chinese
Exclusion Era to the Workingmen’s Party of California, the 1877 San Francisco
massacre, and much more). I’d really love the chance to share my revised
proposal with interested agents and/or editors, so please feel free to reach
out by email (brailton@fitchburgstate.edu)
with any such interest and/or contacts for me. Thanks in advance!
Next
series starts Monday,
Ben
PS. What
do you think? Fall previews or work in progress you’d share?
PPS.
Speaking of baseball histories, I’m very excited to note that I’ll be talking
about this project at the 9-Online
Virtual Baseball Conference in October. Please let me know if you’ll be
there too!
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