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Delphin Enjoiras 1920

Watergirl asked me if I thought it was a good idea to put together a list (much like the blog roll) of our published authors. She would link to their book or author’s page. Of course, I thought it was a great idea.

So what she needs from you is: Name of your book, style of the book (NF, F, YA, etc), author’s name, link to your book or author’s page.

That’s it. Add it to the comments below.

And, please, to help Watergirl out, limit it to those comments so she doesn’t have wade through 150 random comments to find what she needs. Unless you have a question about an entry.

Otherwise, I posted an open thread just below this one. Thanks!

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  15. 15.

    TaMara (HFG)

    Okay you guys, I have to take off. It looks like we’ve got things going ok. I’ll check back tonight see if anything comes up – or email if you need to.

  16. 16.

    zhena gogolia

    I’ve published about ten books, but I don’t want to give up my anonymity!

    Most of them are not page-turners.

  19. 19.

    TaMara (HFG)

    @zhena gogolia: How about if you email me or watergirl your real name and books? She can list them, but not mention your nym here. I mean, if you want to. That goes for anyone else, too. You don’t need to reveal your real name here if anonymity is important to you, I completely understand.

  20. 20.

    laura koerber

    Magicsl realism/dystopia set in the near future. Bobby Fallon, half human and half wild hare trickster, lives by the wild hare code of “feed, Fuck, Fight” Starred review in KirKus Review: htt
    ps://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/laura-koerber/wild-hare/ Koerber (The Eclipse Dancer, 2018, etc.) offers readers an embittered narrator, a dystopic near future, and an intriguing, nuanced treatment of magic, nature, and justice in this urban-fantasy tale.
    Bob Fallon is half-human and “half-forest spirit from the wild hare clan,” and he owns one of the last remaining bits of forested land in northern Wisconsin. It would be easy for him to dismiss humankind entirely—and on some days, that’s exactly what he wants to do. His clan’s mantra of “feed, fuck, fight” has governed a lot of his life, and he can’t help but feel a smoldering rage about the destruction of the forests and other injustices in his surroundings. Koerber’s characterization of Bob is perhaps the book’s strongest element; the protagonist’s jaded, acidic attitude will put readers perfectly into a noirish mindset. At the same time, Bob does a great job of providing context, both for the decaying world he inhabits and for his own limited abilities: “since I’m a fairy, why can’t I fix things?” When Arne, one of his few friends, is jailed for failing to pay speeding tickets, Bob starts raising money for his release, but this is easier said than done, as Bob has spent years avoiding townspeople, doing begrudging odd jobs for them, or outright stealing from them—and the state adds Arne’s room and board to the fine every day. Bob works inside and outside the law as he runs afoul of local militia, a congressman with shady ties, and a host of other fairies, spirits, and tricksters. Overall, the story manages to weave together a complex tapestry of themes, from climate change to poverty to what qualifies as morality in a world that’s facing catastrophe. The prose is clear and concise throughout, giving readers a sense of each scene and character through the protagonist’s eyes.
    A wrenching, complex novel that any fantasy fan would do well to pick up.

    Kind of a revenge fantasy for progressives.

  24. 24.

    Princess

    Cool!

    I wrote up the details here, then edited because I’d prefer to preserve my anonymity. Can I find your email addresses somewhere on the forum?

  35. 35.

    WaterGirl

    @zhena gogolia: If you have an author website, there’s probably a way we could list that so it’s not attached to zhena gogolia. You can send email to my nym at balloon-juice.com. I promise I would keep your secret.

    Edit: Or, what TaMara said!

  36. 36.

    Jim Stewart

    After all these years of lurking …

    A Girl and her Neodog , SF, young-adultish, J.A Stewart (Jim)
    amazon.com/dp/B07MF69VKN

    Kim’s Uncle Ted, founder of Sirius Biotechnologies is dead, and if she can’t uncover the truth of what happened, not only will she watch his life’s work come to nothing, but she will lose his greatest gift to her: Rosie, her beloved genetically engineered talking dog!

  38. 38.

    Mustang Bobby

    Does being a produced and self-published playwright count? If so, here’s a link to my page at the New Play Exchange.

    My plays run the gamut from full-length romantic comedies, family dramas, ten-minute plays running from the sublime to the absurd, and a smattering of one-minute plays. Most of them are PG13.

    NPX was developed by the National New Play Network to showcase new and produced works by playwrights all over the world. You can search for plays and playwrights and for a ridiculously low price you can subscribe as a reader and download plays for your reading pleasure, mine included.

  39. 39.

    WaterGirl

    Quick note: For anyone who might not have included the type/style of the book, please reply to your original comment and include that, please!

  41. 41.

    Mnemosyne

    They haven’t shown up yet, but someone should probably track down Frankensteinbeck and JoyceH and see if they want to participate.

    I put my first book aside and I’m working on a new one now. I’ll send my info along once I have a working website and not just a placeholder URL.

  42. 42.

    CZAnne

    I read most posts & most of the comments, just I’m usually way too late to comment.

    I have a series out.
    Fantasy, at the intersection of epic and political and romantic.
    Author name: CZ Edwards, author page here:
    Series: Rien’s Rebellion
    Book I: Kingdom Smashwords Amazon
    Book II: Repudiation & Refuge Smashwords Amazon
    Book III: The Committed Ones Smashwords Amazon
    Book IV: Wisdom’s Fire Smashwords Amazon
    Book V: Redemption & Revolution Smashwords Amazon

    Book VI: Foundation Smashwords Amazon

    I’ve got a bridge novella coming out at the end of the month, and the first book in the next series in mid-November.

  44. 44.

    SiubhanDuinne

    I’m not sure this counts, but about 45 years ago I wrote the program notes/annotations (including a multi-stanza introductory limerick!) for a musician friend, Marilyn Marzuki, who published a book of Christmas carols arranged for harp. If you embiggen the cover image you will see my name under hers :-)

    Had completely forgotten about The Christmas Harpist until now, and was amazed to see that it’s still in print.

    amazon.com/O4999-Christmas-Harpist-Marilyn-Marzuki/dp/0825831539

  45. 45.

    Tom Levenson

    @Bill Arnold: It’s about the South Sea Bubble — and how it connects back to the Scientific Revolution and forward to our own financial follies.

    A key point it tries to make: the core idea behind the Bubble worked. Transforming money into an abstract, quantifiable idea at least one step removed from any physical thing, a coin, an acre or what have you, was a critical and incredibly powerful step in creating modern finance. Establishing a reliable system of public credit was a major reason why Great Britain rose to world-dominating-power. All of that emerges from the Bubble — but so does the fragility inherent in financial engineering.

    It’s a fun book: Daniel Defoe’s a character, and so is a reckless Isaac Newton, and many more besides.

  52. 52.

    zzyzx

    @WaterGirl:

    “Tour memoir?”

    Non-fiction, telling stories about seeing Phish in 1994 (centering around bit of a – difference of opinion? Fight? – I had with the guitarist after Des Moines). I researched some of the history of the venues and tried to explain the experience of seeing Phish to those who don’t know the band.

    Music criticism and travel journal might be the best two.

  57. 57.

    WaterGirl

    @zzyzx: Okay, I’ll go with Non-Fiction for now, and if we get a whole bunch of non-fiction, I will worry about additional categories then.

  63. 63.

    WaterGirl

    @munira: very glad you are contributing, but please don’t make me work that hard.
    :-)

    can you supply a link to the poetry and a link to the YA novel and a link to anything else you want listed? that would be much appreciated.

  64. 64.

    WaterGirl

    Okay, without being concerned about the order things are in, is this a reasonable organization for the listings we have so far? Should Urban Fantasy be part of fantasy, not broken out? What about Mysteries and Cozy Mysteries? Two separate things? Or one is a subset of the other? if a subset, then there would have to be a subset for regular mysteries, too, right?

    Published Authors
    Balloon Juice Published Authors was last updated October 2019.

    Fiction
    x

    Mystery-Romance
    TaMara / Annie DeMoranville

    Science Fiction-Fantasy
    Major Major Major Major / J. Tynan Burke
    Laura Koerber
    Luther M. Siler

    Urban Fantasy
    Citizen Alan / T.S. Mann

    Young Adult (YA)
    THESE PROBABLY NEED SOME SUBCATEGORY OF YA SINCE EVERYONE ELSE DID

    NIck / Simon Habegger P
    munira / Munira Judith Avinger

    YA Fantasy
    Dorothy A. Winsor

    YA Science Fiction
    Jim Stewart / J.A Stewart (Jim)

    YA Graphic Novel
    Scott Peterson / Scott Peterson and Jose Garcia

    Mysteries
    x

    Cozy Mysteries
    J. / Jennifer L. Schiff

    Psychological Thrillers
    John Manchester

    Playwrights
    Mustang Bobby / Philip Middleton Williams

    Non-Fiction
    SHOULD THESE HAVE SUBCATEGORIES?
    Martha C. Franks
    zzyzx / David Steinberg
    Tom Levenson
    RSA / Robert St. Amant

    Cooking
    TaMara / What’s 4 Dinner Solutions
    Peter / Peter Barrett

    Humor
    RandyG / R. G. Fredericks

    Music
    SiubhanDuinne / Marily Marzuki and Judith M. Costello

    Poetry
    munira / Munira Judith Avinger

    As Yet Uncategorized
    not zhena gogolia / Author’s Name
    not Princess / Author’s Name

  65. 65.

    JoyceH

    Hey guys, I’m at the hospital (I’m not the patient) with a relative and don’t know how to post links from my phone. Would someone mind finding and posting for me a link to the first book in my new series? Mary Bennet and the Bingley Codex by Joyce Harmon is historical fantasy and Pride and Prejudice sequel.

  66. 66.

    WaterGirl

    @JoyceH: Joyce, wouldn’t you want a link to your author page, so people see all your books? Not just to one?

    edit: Unless you have written books in multiple categories, and then I would think you might want to go to a page where people could see all your books that fit under that category?

  67. 67.

    WaterGirl

    Looks like this is kind of quiet for the moment. I will check back later for further entries or questions.

  69. 69.

    PaulWartenberg

    Hallo:
    Paul Wartenberg
    Author website linked here https://paulwstories.com and it bounces to my Witty Librarian blog.

    I’ve been in several anthologies for short stories:
    Strangely Funny series Volume 1, Volume 3, Volume 5 and Volume 6

    I’ve self-published a story anthology called Last of the Grapefruit Wars but I am thinking of pulling it and re-editing it with more unpublished / self-published shorts to re-release.

    P.S. Get ready for NaNoWriMo, people.

  72. 72.

    Daniel Price

    Yes, I know that the link in my previous comment is messy despite my attempt to edit it. Yeesh.

  73. 73.

    tokyocali (formerly tokyo expat)

    This thread always comes up in the middle of the night for me, which means I’m late to the party.//

    Zia Westfield ( http://www.ziawestfield.com ) Fiction

    Killer Secrets – Romantic Suspense
    Killer Lies – Romantic Suspense
    Killer Deceptions – Romantic Suspense (released Oct. 3rd!)
    Mystic Desire – Supernatural anthology, my story Bewitching the Wolf is a humorous, light on the mystery, paranormal romance (released Oct. 1st!)

  77. 77.

    VigilanteMark

    Two recent ones that are still widely available (i.e., Amazon), both by Jonathan V. Cann:

    Broken Lightning: The Curse of Godfall Golden – LGBT/sci-fi dystopian/mystery
    The Dyn’taren Guard and the Power of the Name – Children’s fantasy/adventure

    http://www.jonathanvcann.com

    Thanks for putting this together!

  78. 78.

    Johannes

    Well, I’m a bit late but there’s my Victorian political thriller/Anthony Trollope continuation novel, Phineas at Bay, which received a very nice Kirkus review, viewable here. My Pro Connect page can be accessed via the review; my Amazon author page is here.

  79. 79.

    WaterGirl

    I will keep checking in here for the next couple of days. I will leave a note when I check it for the last time, so if that note isn’t here yet, you can still add your information here and be confident that it will be seen.

    ~WaterGirl

  80. 80.

    Christopher Carson

    I published other authors for 20 years,. This is the first one of my own.

    A little philosophy, and cats from Christopher Carson, 14 Things I Learned from a Cat. My amazon page here:

    goo.gl/qeTw20

  81. 81.

    laura koerber

    @WaterGirl: I suppose fantasy. I think Magical realism is a kind of fantasy. Thank you for doing this. I have already found two books to read.

  83. 83.

    dave

    Amazon kindle (self published-nom de plume OG Dwr at wife’s request)___” A Quantum of Mercy”__ alternative history sci-fi

  84. 84.

    Vicki Delany

    Happy to Contribute. I write cozy mysteries. As Vicki Delany I write the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop series for Crooked Lane Books, the Year Round Christmas mysteries for Penguin. As Eva Gates, I write the Lighthouse Library series for Crooked Lane. Next up: Read and Buried, a Lighthouse Library mystery, coming Oct. 15, and There’s a Murder Afoot, A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery coming Jan 7. http://www.vickidelany.com facebook.com/evagatesauthor

  85. 85.

    laura koerber

    I am reading Phineas at Bay with great enjoyment The author has found a way to write comfortably in Trollope’s style, just a bit updated for modern readers. Like Trollope, the story is leisurely, gossipy. quietly satirical and witty.

  87. 87.

    WaterGirl

    I will keep checking in here for the next couple of days. I will leave a note when I check it for the last time, so if that note isn’t here yet, you can still add your information here and be confident that it will be seen.

    Just a quick note to say that this round of authors submitting their information for the Published Authors page is officially closed. There will be more opportunities!
    ~WaterGirl

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