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The First Baseman's Grumpy Fan

Gayle’s first day back in the stands is Finn’s first day on the field with his new team. When fate hits a pop fly foul, it sends these two opposites crashing into one another’s lives.

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Special Edition Opportunities!

The First Baseman's Grumpy Fan Signing Edition

I’m so excited to be attending three signings next year where you’ll have the ability to get a signing edition of The First Baseman’s Grumpy Fan.
The signing edition cover of The First Baseman's Grumpy Fan with red sprayed edges. Arrows point from the book to features of the book: sprayed edges, wedding epilogue scene, duplex cover, color chapter headers and scene breaks. Also a "signed" Finn Nixon baseball card with an arrow pointing to the text: All signing editions come with a "signed" Finn Nixon baseball card.

This is the cover that won the cover voting on social media and here on my website.

The paperback will feature red sprayed edges, a duplex cover to give the idea of end papers, and color interior formatting. It will also feature the wedding epilogue scene, which is not in standard retail editions of the book.

Stock at all three of these signings will be limited, so preordering is your best way to get a copy! Also, my cozy mystery alter ego will have books at two of the signings, so if you like mysteries with a side of sweet slow-burns, check those out too (on the same preorder form). 

RomantiConn Preorder

Trumbull, Connecticut

July 26, 2025

Romance-Con Preorder

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

September 5-6, 2025

The First Baseman's Grumpy Fan Special Edition Paperback and Hardcover

I can’t contain my excitement anymore! The First Baseman’s Grumpy Fan is heading to Kickstarter for special paperback and hardcover editions!

Both versions will have a special outer cover with the hardcover receiving a double-sided dust jacket and the paperback getting a duplex cover to showcase the front artwork of both sides of that dust jacket. The hardcover will have a few more bells and whistles just by nature of it being a hardcover, custom end papers, for example, but I have a few ways to make the paperback special too!

As soon as I have the proof copies of both, this project is going live! I can’t wait to show you the beauties in person.

Also, there are some really awesome book box goodies for it too.

Sweet and Spicy versions will both be available!

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This will be the design on the casebound hardcover as well as the paperback. And YES, there will be foil on BOTH provided my proofs look good when they arrive. Cover design by Maria Rosera.
This will be the design on the casebound hardcover as well as the paperback. And YES, there will be foil on BOTH provided my proofs look good when they arrive. Cover design by Maria Rosera.
The hardcover of the special edition of The First Baseman's Grumpy Fan will have a double-sided dust jacket. The first is similar to what you'll find on the ebook and the retail version of the paperbacks, but Finn and Gale have a bit more detailing to them to be a bit more dimensional and the back is completely different with the blurb being on what I made to look like a piece of baseball leather with threads on the side. Plus the fold over parts, of course. The reverse side is the Christmas in July themed side with quotes from the book, some different imagery for both Finn and Gale, taken from scenes of the book, and a look at the snowflake making scene. Some colors might be tweaked on this side depending on how the proof comes out, but this will be close to the final either way. The paperback special edition will have the front covers of both of these on the inside of the front and back cover, respectively. Designs by Maria Rosera featuring stock and original characters.
The hardcover of the special edition of The First Baseman's Grumpy Fan will have a double-sided dust jacket. The first is similar to what you'll find on the ebook and the retail version of the paperbacks, but Finn and Gale have a bit more detailing to them to be a bit more dimensional and the back is completely different with the blurb being on what I made to look like a piece of baseball leather with threads on the side. Plus the fold over parts, of course. The reverse side is the Christmas in July themed side with quotes from the book, some different imagery for both Finn and Gale, taken from scenes of the book, and a look at the snowflake making scene. Some colors might be tweaked on this side depending on how the proof comes out, but this will be close to the final either way. The paperback special edition will have the front covers of both of these on the inside of the front and back cover, respectively. Designs by Maria Rosera featuring stock and original characters.
The hardcover of the special edition of The First Baseman's Grumpy Fan will have endpapers with this design featuring silhouettes of Gale and Finn, the Snowhawks logo, and baseball hearts and snowflakes that were created with manipulated vector stock. The paperback special edition, by nature of being a paperback, won't have endpapers, but that doesn't mean they won't feature this design in some way at all. Design by Maria Rosera.
The hardcover of the special edition of The First Baseman's Grumpy Fan will have endpapers with this design featuring silhouettes of Gale and Finn, the Snowhawks logo, and baseball hearts and snowflakes that were created with manipulated vector stock. The paperback special edition, by nature of being a paperback, won't have endpapers, but that doesn't mean they won't feature this design in some way at all. Design by Maria Rosera.
A picture of the actual hardcover. There is a stretch goal for a ribbon bookmark as shown in the picture, only it will be red.
A picture of the actual hardcover. There is a stretch goal for a ribbon bookmark as shown in the picture, only it will be red.
Backers of my KS project will receive bonus material for The First Baseman's Grumpy Fan both in the back of the special edition and electronically. This will be the only way to get all of the special scenes and alternate POV chapters printed inside the book. Backers will also get early access to the electronic version. And yes, this will include a certain epilogue that readers have been asking for. Also yes, readers who don't back the campaign will be able to get that epilogue, just after the early access window ends.
Backers of my KS project will receive bonus material for The First Baseman's Grumpy Fan both in the back of the special edition and electronically. This will be the only way to get all of the special scenes and alternate POV chapters printed inside the book. Backers will also get early access to the electronic version. And yes, this will include a certain epilogue that readers have been asking for. Also yes, readers who don't back the campaign will be able to get that epilogue, just after the early access window ends.
The tropes and microtropes you will find in The First Baseman's Grumpy Fan.
The tropes and microtropes you will find in The First Baseman's Grumpy Fan.
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