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Introducing SLUGGERS!
By Phil Bildner - February 12, 2009
2009 is all about change!
I want to make sure everybody knows about the exciting new changes that are happening in February with the chapter book series I've created with Loren Long. Well, our series Barnstormers is no longer going to be called Barnstormers. It's going to be Sluggers!
So why change the title of a successful series in the middle of the series?
Loren and I really liked the historical aspect of the term, Barnstormers. After all, our characters -- Griffith, Ruby, Graham and the Travelin’ Nine baseball team are -- in fact “barnstorming” as they travel around the country playing baseball.
But we have learned that the title of a book series must clearly indicate what the series is about. So even though we liked the term, we’ve realized that it does not immediately say that this series is about baseball. For this reason, we are changing the name to Sluggers!, a more easily identifiable baseball term. We feel that this new title will help us reach a larger audience of young readers who would like to read “the series that saved baseball!"
While the story is the same and the art on the inside is the same, Loren has created some fantastic new cover art for each book in the Sluggers series. Just like a title, a cover is a selling point for any book and we wanted the art on the covers to reflect the baseball and magic that takes place inside the books.
So please spread the word!
