Want to read NA/Adult Contemporary Fantasy with Baseball?
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Melissa Slager
Feb 4, 2026, 11:42:16 AM (6 days ago) Feb 4
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Looking for a seasoned writer who is a baseball fan, devours fantasy novels, and loves big books to critique my latest project.
(For potential CPs, I read everything, and my published novel is historical fiction, so I'm willing to read whatever in return.)
One-sentence blurb (full description at bottom of post if interested):
In a world ruled by baseball-mad gods and haunted by primordial terrors, three siblings vie to win the greatest championship series yet, risking relationships, honor, and the future of the created world in a quest for glory.
I have agent interest and am finalizing the first draft of Book 1 in the planned duology. First draft is a biggie (>160K).
Last book I read that I loved was a re-read of a book I still love, Brandon Sanderson's Words of Radiance, as I re-read The Stormlight Archive in prep for the paperback release of Book 5.
Book that epitomizes me as a reader is very tough, since I read wide. Favorite reads include anything by Brandon Sanderson, Naomi Novik, Annie Dillard, and Anthony Doerr, along with David James Duncan's The Brothers K, Leigh Bardugo's Shadow & Bone series, and Maggie Stiefvater's The Listeners (which led me here!). *shrug*
Contact info: Drop a line here first and we can go from there.
FULL DESCRIPTION
Baseball held the Kans family together. Until a god changed the game. Now it’s hardball, as slugger Griff, his base-stealing twin Presley, and their stats-obsessed sister Cora play for the ultimate prize: a slice of the gods’ power itself.
Griff is a party-boy home run machine who’s enticed to step up to the plate for his dad’s old team—and take the gods for all they’ve got, in order to give his son the life and future he never had.
Presley is a pretty-boy speed demon who’s quick to steal most anything, including home plate. He heads across the Continent to pitch and run for his dad’s old arch rival—and for the god who holds the answers to his biggest questions.
But both brothers are thrown for a loop when their stats-head sister Cora convinces their gods-hating old man to enter the game, too, on long-shot, underdog odds—and the scrap of hope that it will help her draw back their missing mom.
There can only be one winner.
But if nobody addresses what’s happening outside the stadium walls—with terrors like hellhounds and flodders pointing to far different sources of power—there might be losers all around.
Griff is a party-boy home run machine who’s enticed to step up to the plate for his dad’s old team—and take the gods for all they’ve got, in order to give his son the life and future he never had.
Presley is a pretty-boy speed demon who’s quick to steal most anything, including home plate. He heads across the Continent to pitch and run for his dad’s old arch rival—and for the god who holds the answers to his biggest questions.
But both brothers are thrown for a loop when their stats-head sister Cora convinces their gods-hating old man to enter the game, too, on long-shot, underdog odds—and the scrap of hope that it will help her draw back their missing mom.
There can only be one winner.
But if nobody addresses what’s happening outside the stadium walls—with terrors like hellhounds and flodders pointing to far different sources of power—there might be losers all around.
Melissa Slager is a writer and journalist in Everett, Washington. Learn more at melissaslager.com.
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