Just bought my 2014 Twins Daily Offseason Handbook, and I started thinking my baseball thriller The Hoosecows, written with Roy C. Booth, is a prospect to watch in its own right.

If you're a Twins fan, the joy of watching prospects mature is going to be a big part of your 2014 experience. Sano, Buxton, Meyer . . . What could be more exciting than supporting a future superstar before they slip into a big league uniform?

Now, I'd like to offer you a chance to dial into another prospect. The Hoosecows is a baseball thriller about an independent league baseball team slogging through a season of suffering. Mysteries develop. Games get violent. Ballplayers meet untimely ends. It's a heckuva story, and Roy C. Booth and I will finish the final revision soon.

This means The Hoosecows is a prospect, too. It will audition for publishers and we think you'll want a copy when it goes pro.

But then you'd miss the fun of following the prospect process. Like us at http://www.facebook.com/cfcows. Get all the updates. Just by liking the page, you pump up our stats for the publishing scouts, too!

That way, when someone you know buys a copy of the finished novel, you can say "I followed that book in the minor leagues."

-- Axel