Rick Wilber posted an entry

   About the most pure fun I've had in writing in many years came from working with writer Alan Smale to create "The Wandering Warriors," a novella that was the cover story for the May/June 2018 Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, and will be out on its own as a short ebook and paperback in July or August of 2018. The story follows a barnstorming baseball team in an alternate 1940s that wakes up one morning to discover they've been brought from Illinois to Ancient Rome by the Empress Julia Domna, to provide some entertainment for the masses, and perhaps cool off the tempers of her two sons. The empress is one of the most powerful women in Roman history, but with the untimely death of her husband (the famous Septimius Severus) she's caught in a power struggle between those sons, who both want the top job and aren't interested in sharing. So it's baseball in the Colosseum (and elsewhere around Rome), in games where the stakes are very high, indeed. There's some Roman politics, a little baseball action and a wild, wild finish to the story that left Alan and I both chuckling with enjoyment over the zany action. It's a romp, for sure, with a Mad Dash to home for the baseball insiders, a lot of Roman intrigue in a surprisingly accurate Ancient Rome for those history buffs (yes, the Romans played a game they called "small ball"), and a closing scene that we think really hits the strike zone. We hope you like it, either in Asimov's (where you can read it now!), or in a month or so when you'll see it for sale on Amazon and elsewhere.