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Our Published Authors – Backup

If you are a Balloon Juice lurker or commenter and are a published author, please send email to WaterGirl at balloon-juice.comif you would like your work to be included on this page.

Balloon Juice Published Authors was last updated January 2020.

Fiction

Munira Judith Avinger
·   Julia  (YA fiction)

Mark Badger / Badgetoon
·   Abstract Sati  (graphic novel)
·   Julius Caesar  (graphic novel/adaptation of the Shakespeare play)

J. Tynan Burke / Major Major Major Major
·   The Bagel Shop Owner’s Nephew  (short urban fantasy)

Jonathan V. Cann / ViglanteMark
·   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)

Victor Catano / Facebones
·   Tail & Trouble  (urban/modern fantasy)
·   Winter of our Distemper  (urban/modern fantasy)
·   Tangled Lights and Silent Nights  (holiday anthology for charity)

Vicki Delany
·   The Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Series  (cozy mysteries)
·   Lighthouse Library Mysteries by Eva Gates  (cozy mysteries)
·   The Year Round Christmas mysteries  (cozy mysteries)

Annie DeMoranville / TaMara  (featured 7/15/19)
·   Run Aground  (mystery/romance)
·   Annie Short Stories  (short fiction)

O.G Dwr / dave
·   A Quantum of Mercy  (alternative history sci-fi)

C. Z. Edwards / CZAnne
·   Rien’s Rebellion: A Series  (fantasy)

Bud Gundy / Bud
·   Somewhere Over Lorain Road  – Lambda Literary Award nominee  (gay mystery)
·   Accidental Prophet  (gay sci-fi, thriller)

Simon Habegger / Nick
·   The Cricket  (YA fiction)

Joyce Harmon / JoyceH
·   Mary Bennet and the Bingley Codex  (historical fantasy/Pride and Prejudice sequel)
·   Mary Bennet and the Wickham Artifact  (historical fantasy/Pride and Prejudice sequel)
·   Mary Bennet and the Beast of Rosings Park  (historical fantasy/Pride and Prejudice sequel)

Jack Hughes
·   The SEED of CRONUS  (dystopian sci-fi/speculative fiction)

Laura Koerber / Laura Koerber
·   Wild Hare  (magical realism/dystopia)

John Manchester
·   Ray of Darkness Book 1: Never Speak  (deep psychological thriller)
·   Ray of Darkness Book 2: If I Fell  (deep psychological thriller)

T.S. Mann / Citizen Alan
·   Strangers in Boston  (urban fantasy)

Rob Massing / Robmassing
·   Hardly Strangers  (LGBT fiction)

Scott Peterson and Jose Garcia
·   Truckus Maximus  (YA original graphic novel)

Thad Phetteplace
·   Devious Origins  (YA Fiction)

Lucy Pick
·   Pilgrimage  (historical fiction)

Janet Poland / Snarkworth, short-fingered Bulgarian
·   Same River Twice  (mystery)

Richard Roberts / Frankensteinbeck
·   Please Don’t Tell My Parents I’m A Supervillain  (middle grade superhero)
·   A Rag Doll’s Guide To Here And There  (middle grade fantasy)
·   You Can Be A Cyborg When You’re Older  (YA science fiction/cyberpunk)

Arthur Salm / Hungry Joe
·   Anyway*  (middle grade fiction)

Jennifer L. Schiff / J.
·   Sanibel Island Mystery Series  (cozy mysteries)

Mike Shupp / mike shupp
·   The Destiny Makers  (science fiction, 5-part series)

Luther M. Siler
·   Skylights  (sci-fi / fantasy)
·   Benevolence Archives, Vol. 1  (sci-fi/fantasy)

J. A. Stewart / Jim Stewart
·   A Girl and her Neodog   (YA science fiction)

B. W. Thomson
·   Bill gets a Balloon  (illustrated political book in children’s book format)

Carol Van Natta / Carol Van Natta
·   Overload Flux (Central Galactic Concordance Book 1)  (fiction/sci-fi/space opera)
·   Shifter Mate Magic (Ice Age Shifters Book 1)  (fiction/romance/paranormal)
·   Shifter’s Storm (Ice Age Shifters Book 5)  (fiction/romance/paranormal)

Paul Wartenberg / PaulWartenberg
·   Body Armor Blues: from the World of Talents  (fiction/superhero)
·   Hero Cleanup Protocol: from the World of Talents  (fiction/superhero)

Zia Westfield / tokyocali – formerly tokyo expat
·   The Deadly Encounters Series: Killer Secrets, Killer Lies, Killer Deceptions  (romantic suspense)
·   Mystic Desire  (supernatural anthology)

Neil Willcox
·   The Inexplicable Affair of the Mesmerising Russian Nobleman  (comedy crime novel set in 1902)
·   The Convoluted Adventure of the Vengeful Yankee Financier  (comedy crime novel set in 1902)

Dorothy A. Winsor
·   The Wind Reader  (YA fantasy)
·   Deep as a Tomb  (YA fantasy)
·   Finders Keepers  (middle grade fantasy)

John F. Wirenius / Johannes
·   Phineas at Bay  (Victorian political thriller)

Children’s Books

B. W. Thomson
·   The Adventures of Nora the Polar Bear
·   Birdland

Non-Fiction

Robert St. Amant / RSA
·   Computing For Ordinary Mortals  (computer science)

Munira Judith Avinger
·   The Cabin  (memoir)

Mark Badger / Badgetoon
·   Just Draw: Stress and the ending of Stress for Cartoonists  (graphic novel instructional)

Peter Barrett / Peter
·  Project 258: Making Dinner at Fish & Game  (portrait of a restaurant/cookbook)

Mark Benbow
·   Leading Them to the Promised Land: Woodrow Wilson, Covenant Theology and the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1915  (history)
·   The Nation’s Capital Brewmaster: Christian Heurich and his Brewery, 1842-1956  (history/biography)

Christopher Carson
·   14 Things I Learned From A Cat  (pets/philosophy)

Martha C. Franks
·   Books without Borders: Homer, Aeschylus, Galileo, Melville and Madison Go to China  (narrative)

R. G. Fredericks / RandyG
·   The Complete Guide To Republican Ethics  (political humor)

Alex King / PhoenixRising
·   Third Time Charmed: what adopting an orphan taught me about love, loss & luck  (memoir)

Laura Koerber / Laura Koerber
·   I Once Was Lost, But Now I’m Found  (dog rescue)

Thomas Levenson / Tom Levenson
·   The Hunt for Vulcan  (history and science)
·   Newton and the Counterfeiter  (history and science)
·   Money for Nothing  (upcoming June 2020, history and science)

Marily Marzuki and Judith M. Costello / SiubhanDuinne
·   The Christmas Harpist  (music/holidays)

Pamela Merritt / WereBear
·   The Way of Cats  (cat advice)

Alex Olson (and Philip Deloria)
·   American Studies: A User’s Guide  (history/literature/culture)

Patricia Whereat Phillips / La Gata Gris
·   Ethnobotany of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, Siuslaw Indians  (ethnobotany/Native American)

Daniel S. Price / Daniel Price
·   Excruciverbiage: a compendium of cryptic crosswords  (crossword collection)

David Steinberg / zzyzx
·   This Has All Been Wonderful: A Travel Monologue From Summer 1994  (tour memoir)

Diana Waggoner / Tehanu
·   The Hills of Faraway: A Guide to Fantasy  (bibliography of fantasy literature)

Paul Wartenberg / PaulWartenberg
·   Surviving in the Age of Obstruction: Notes on the Obama Years  (political)

What’s 4 Dinner Solutions / TaMara
·   Summer Into Fall  (cooking)

Kate Willette
·   Don’t Call It a Miracle  (neuroscience for lay readers)

Cliff Engle Wirt / Cliff Wirt
·   The Concept Of The Ecstasis  (philosophy)
·   The Quality Quest  (philosophy of art)

Poetry

Munira Judith Avinger
·   Hidden / Caché  (poetry – bilingual)

Plays & Productions

Roger W. Tang / gwangung
·   Dawn of the She Devil of the China Seas is set to be produced by Annex Theatre, May/June 2020.

Philip Middleton Williams / Mustang Bobby
·   A Moment of Clarity was produced as part of a short play fest, TAP Shorts, Saturday, Dec. 28 in Lake Worth, Florida.
·   A Tree Grows in Longmont is a one-act about me and my late ex-partner.
·   Cooler Near the Lake is a full-length comedy/drama about a family, friends, and ex-lovers at their summer cottage in Michigan.
*Three monologues from my play “Can’t Live Without You” have been included in the anthology The Best Men’s Monologues from New Plays 2019 edited by Lawrence Harbison, published by The Applause Acting Series.

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