Despite all the
book signing and promotion work, I’m close to finishing the first draft of my
newest WIP, a humor book about Indiana history. (My space opera story is “cooling”,
so I can run through the next draft with a more objective eye.) I figure there
will be lots of Hoosier books published for the bicentennial, but maybe not a
lot of humor books.
My book, which
still doesn’t have a real working title, is divided up in two ways: by time
periods and subjects. There will be sections on pre-state history, becoming a
state, the Revolutionary War, and the Civil War, for example. Some subjects
include weather, state symbols, famous Hoosiers, transportation, sports, crime,
and so on.
It’ll be funny.
I promise.
What do you
think? What other subjects related to the Hoosier state and its history should
be covered in the book? Preferably something I can make fun of, but what the
heck—I’ve already covered the Klan and serial killers.
Since you mention sports and the Hoosiers, you're already covering what I'd have suggested- what makes people drive thousands of miles to watch a basketball game.
ReplyDeleteI'd drive thousands of miles to *avoid* watching a basketball game.
DeleteWhat's a Hoosier? Am I being a parochial Brit again?
ReplyDeleteNot at all, it's a question many here in 'Merica ask. A Hoosier is, in short, a resident of Indiana -- but where the word came from is another question, an no one's really sure. I have a whole section of the book dedicated to the nickname.
DeleteWhat about songs? Back Home in Indiana can't be the only one. Isn't there one about a river too?
ReplyDeleteMost people think "Back Home Again in Indiana" is the state song; but it's really "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away" -- so you're absolutely right.
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