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Calling All Authors In Our Midst: Submissions Please, Round Two

by WaterGirl|  November 30, 20191:35 pm| 103 Comments

This post is in: Authors In Our Midst

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In October, we put out a call to our Balloon Juice writers, asking if anyone was interested in having their books work included in our list of published authors.  There was quite a bit of interest, and the result is the first draft you will find at the Our Authors link in the footer on the new site.

So much talent here on Balloon Juice!

Dorothy Winsor’s comment about her book in the morning thread reminded me that this is the perfect time to ask for a second round of submissions by our authors.  Past time, actually!  I had planned to have an updated list in place by December 1, in time for gift-buying season, so I am running out of daylight on this one.

For our published authors, we are asking for Balloon Juice people only, not family members.  (The cousin to this list – Our Artists & Artisans – can include spouses and partners.   John was waiting for the new site to put out his call for artists and artisans, so I suspect we may see that soon.)

What you need to know before submitting your information:

  1. Up to 3 publications can be listed on Our Published Authors page.  (fiction, non-fiction, graphic novels, plays, poetry…)
  2. They must be written by Balloon Juice people only, not family members.
  3. Please please please submit your information in the format below.
  4. Please copy the contents of the window below into your comment and fill in the blanks.

Balloon Juice Nym:

Author Name:

Do you want your BJ nym displayed with your entry?  (yes or no)

Author URL, if you have one:

Title 1:

Title 1 category/type:

Title 1 URL:

Title 2:

Title 2 category/type:

Title 2 URL:

Title 3:

Title 3 category/type:

Title 3 URL:

We have a better idea of what we are looking for and what the limitations are this time around, so if you supplied information during the first call, please check Our Authors in the footer so we can make any changes or additions to your information.

If you want to make changes or additions to your listing, please use the format above.

Update:  If you do not want us to know that “Little Surfer” is actually Diana VanWriter, then please send email to WaterGirl at the balloon juice address.  You can copy the format into your email message and fill it in there.  I”ll need to know what nym connects with which author, but that will never be published anywhere, so no one else will see it.

Authors Added or Updated 11/30 by 5pm:

Tehanu
Hungry Joe
Laura Koerber
Bud
Munira
La Gata Gris
PhoenixRising
Robmassing
PaulWartenberg
Vicki Delany

Authors Added or Updated 12/1 by noon:

Facebones
Carol Van Natta
btom89
Citizen Alan
WereBear
JoyceH
Lucy Pick
Mark Benbow
mike shupp
Badgetoon
Cliff Wirt
hitchhiker
gwangung
Frankensteinbeck
tokyocali
Alex Olson

Final Update at 8pm on Sunday: I am no longer checking this thread for authors who wish to be added to the Our Authors list.  Thanks to all of our authors!

 

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  1. 1.

    PaulWartenberg

    November 30, 2019 at 1:41 pm

    Thank ye for offering this again, but give me some time to respond later, I am at a writing group this afternoon. Also I finished up my NANOWRIMO LAST NIGHT (52,000 words and counting) and hopefully will have that available to add next year. :)

  2. 2.

    Tehanu

    November 30, 2019 at 1:51 pm

    Balloon Juice Nym: Tehanu

    Author Name: Diana Waggoner

    Do you want your BJ nym displayed with your entry? (yes or no) yes

    Balloon Juice Nym: Tehanu

    Author Name: Diana Waggoner

    Author URL, if you have one: —

    Book 1 Title: The Hills of Faraway: A Guide to Fantasy

    Book 1 category/type: Nonfiction – bibliography of fantasy literature

    Book 1 URL: https://smile.amazon.com/Hills-Faraway-Guide-Fantasy/dp/068910846X/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=the+hills+of+far+away&qid=1575139784&s=books&sr=1-6

  3. 3.

    Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly, Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.)

    November 30, 2019 at 1:52 pm

    How ’bout those of us who are still working on something?  Maybe we could have some posts where we could ask those who have gotten farther along for some wisdom and other help.

  4. 4.

    schrodingers_cat

    November 30, 2019 at 1:53 pm

    @Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly, Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.): 
    Good idea.

  5. 5.

    NotMax

    November 30, 2019 at 1:56 pm

    Just books? Not stories, plays or academic journal articles?

  6. 6.

    WaterGirl

    November 30, 2019 at 2:08 pm

    @PaulWartenberg: I will keep this open through end of day Sunday, at least.  At whatever point I stop checking, I will update the post and add a comment so no one will have to wonder whether their submission will be seen, or has been seen.

  7. 7.

    WaterGirl

    November 30, 2019 at 2:13 pm

    I also added an update up top for anyone who wants to be included but does not want everyone to see that your nym is connected to a particular author.

  8. 8.

    debbie

    November 30, 2019 at 2:13 pm

    @WaterGirl:
    Would now be a good time to ask about the font used for posts?

  9. 9.

    WaterGirl

    November 30, 2019 at 2:14 pm

    @Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly, Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.):  @schrodingers_cat:

    You will find exactly that on TaMara’s Writer’s Chatting series.  I hope to feature Tamara’s Writer’s Chatting under Featuring at some point, earlier rather than later.

  10. 10.

    WaterGirl

    November 30, 2019 at 2:19 pm

    @NotMax: Right now, the big headings are Fiction, Non-Fiction, Plays and Poetry.  Short fiction goes under Fiction.  I don’t know if short non-fiction even exists. ??

    I had not given any previous thought to Academic Journal articles.

  11. 11.

    something fabulous

    November 30, 2019 at 2:23 pm

    Hello, proofreader eyeball here! You’ve got “Balloon Juice Nym: /Author Name:” rows twice in the submit format style box. Is that on purpose? Just curious.

    Signed,
    a non-published author
    ?

  12. 12.

    WaterGirl

    November 30, 2019 at 2:24 pm

    @something fabulous: Good catch!  thank you

  13. 13.

    WaterGirl

    November 30, 2019 at 2:27 pm

    @debbie: Sure!  Do you want the font for the post titles?

  14. 14.

    Baud

    November 30, 2019 at 2:28 pm

    Baud
    The Sexual Awakening of Baud!
    Coffee Table Book
    Unpublished

  15. 15.

    NotMax

    November 30, 2019 at 2:39 pm

    @Baud

    World’s first all Photoshopped pop-up book?

    :)

  16. 16.

    WaterGirl

    November 30, 2019 at 2:39 pm

    @Tehanu: Yours has been added.  Please check my work. :-)

    @Baud: Yours, too*

    (*made you look?)

  17. 17.

    Hungry Joe

    November 30, 2019 at 2:40 pm

    Author Name: Arthur Salm

    Do you want your BJ nym displayed? yes

    Author url: arthursalm.com

    Book 1 Title: Anyway*

    Book 1 category/type: Middle-grade fiction

  18. 18.

    debbie

    November 30, 2019 at 2:44 pm

    @WaterGirl:
    I want it all! But I particularly like the text used for posts. The font where the J cuddles the N, like here: RWNJ.

  19. 19.

    Laura Koerber

    November 30, 2019 at 2:58 pm

    I am already listed so perhaps you could add this book?

    Balloon Juice Nym: laura koerber wonkie
    Author Name: laura koerber
    Do you want your BJ nym displayed with your entry? (yes)
    Author URL, if ayou have one: already on the author list
    Book 1 Title: I Once Was Lost but Now I’m Found
    Book 1 category/type: nonfiction dog rescue

  20. 20.

    lollipopguild

    November 30, 2019 at 3:11 pm

    @Baud: Pictures? Lots of pictures?

  21. 21.

    Obvious Russian Troll

    November 30, 2019 at 3:21 pm

    @PaulWartenberg: Congratulations! I will be lucky to hit 15K. I think part of it is that I haven’t done a good job of thinking through certain aspects of my work in progress, and another part is that it’s been a more hectic month than anticipated.

     

    I generally do better with slow but steady, though.

  22. 22.

    WaterGirl

    November 30, 2019 at 3:34 pm

    @Laura Koerber: Laura, did you not want a link to your book?

    also, you listed this next to nym: laura koerber wonkie

    but i never see your nym with the word wonkie, so I’m not quite sure what you want there.  please check out what I did and let me know what to change. thanks.

  23. 23.

    Yarrow

    November 30, 2019 at 3:38 pm

    Yarrow

    Tick Tock, Motherfuckers!

    Hardback–big enough to hit people over the head with, if necessary

  24. 24.

    WaterGirl

    November 30, 2019 at 3:41 pm

    @Baud:  @Yarrow:

    At this rate, we’re going to need an “Imaginary Books” category, or possibly Books I Wish I’d Written?

  25. 25.

    Bud

    November 30, 2019 at 3:45 pm

    Balloon Juice Nym: Bud

    Author Name: Bud Gundy

    Do you want your BJ nym displayed with your entry?  (yes or no) yes

    Author URL, if you have one: http://www.budgundy.com

    Book 1 Title: Somewhere Over Lorain Road (Lambda Literary Award nominee)

    Book 1 category/type: Gay Mystery

    Book 1 URL: https://www.amazon.com/Somewhere-Over-Lorain-Road-Gundy-ebook/dp/B0798P4DBY/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Bud+Gundy&qid=1575146640&sr=8-2

    Book 2 Title: Accidental Prophet

    Book 2 category/type: Gay Sci/Fi, thriller

    Book 2 URL: https://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Prophet-Bud-Gundy/dp/1635554527/ref=sr_1_1?crid=18AL3RDOSMXK7&keywords=bud+gundy+-+accidental+prophet&qid=1575146681&sprefix=Bud+Gundy+accid%2Caps%2C237&sr=8-1

    Book 3 Title:

    Book 3 category/type:

    Book 3 URL:

  26. 26.

    Bud

    November 30, 2019 at 3:47 pm

    Thanks so much for offering this! I visit BJ every day, rarely comment, and I didn’t know anything about this. Such a great idea!

  27. 27.

    Raven

    November 30, 2019 at 4:06 pm

    I swore I’d never write again after my dissertation but, when I tell my stories, people say you have to write this stuff down. What do people think about dictating the stories and worrying about the writing later? I always wish I’d got my dad to talk into a mic more.

  28. 28.

    LivingInExile

    November 30, 2019 at 4:06 pm

    @Baud: Will there be a Braille edition.

  29. 29.

    WaterGirl

    November 30, 2019 at 4:10 pm

    @Raven: I think MomSense may have done some of that, so maybe check with her?  She will surely correct me if I am wrong!

  30. 30.

    WaterGirl

    November 30, 2019 at 4:11 pm

    @LivingInExile: @Baud:  We certainly hope so.

  31. 31.

    Badgetoon

    November 30, 2019 at 4:12 pm

    Do graphic novels fit into fiction? Or is that for the artists/craftspeople kinda thing? Longtime lurker very rare poster

  32. 32.

    WaterGirl

    November 30, 2019 at 4:12 pm

    Hey, you guys are following the directions.  And they said it couldn’t be done!

  33. 33.

    munira

    November 30, 2019 at 4:14 pm

    Balloon Juice Nym: Munira

    Author Name: Munira Judith Avinger

    Do you want your BJ nym displayed with your entry?  (yes or no) – No

    Author URL, if you have one:

    Title 1: The Cabin

    Title 1 category/type: Memoir

    Title 1 URL:https://www.amazon.com/Cabin-Munira-Judith-Avinger-ebook/dp/B00B2SG88W/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=munira+judith+avinger&qid=1575148306&sr=8-1

    Title 2: Julia

    Title 2 category/type: Young adult fiction

    Title 2 URL:https://www.amazon.com/Julia-Munira-Judith-Avinger-ebook/dp/B00E3HMHDY/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=munira+judith+avinger&qid=1575148376&sr=8-2

    Title 3: Hidden / Caché

    Title 3 category/type: Poetry – bilingual

    Title 3 URL: https://www.amazon.com/HIDDEN-CACHE-Munira-Judith-AVINGER/dp/0888872852/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=munira+judith+avinger&qid=1575148376&sr=8-4

  34. 34.

    La Gata Gris

    November 30, 2019 at 4:20 pm

    I am more of a lurker, rarely have commented in past but here goes I guess.  Book is very niche-y – basically anyone who is dearly in love with ethnobotany and/or Pacific NW Native cultures so…yeah. Niche-y as can be.

     

    Balloon Juice Nym: La Gata Gris

    Author Name: Patricia Whereat Phillips

    Do you want your BJ nym displayed with your entry?  (yes or no) yes

    Author URL, if you have one:

    Title 1: Ethnobotany of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, Siuslaw Indians

    Title 1 category/type: nonfiction, ethnobotany, Pacific NW, Native American

    Title 1 URL: http://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/ethnobotany-of-coos-lower-umpqua-and-siuslaw-indians

  35. 35.

    Steeplejack

    November 30, 2019 at 4:20 pm

    @Raven:
    There are definitely two parts to writing: composition (making up something) and editing/​structuring (shaping that something). Too often, people try to do both parts at once. Or they think that “writing” means that they have to start out at the beginning of their story and proceed through it in a straight line. That’s how the reader perceives the story, but very few are written like that.

    The important thing at the start is to get something down. For writerly writers that is a rough draft, or several rough drafts, or even just bits and bobs of scenes or whatever. And it could just as well be a collection of oral notes or anecdotes that could be shaped up later.

    In short, go for it!

  36. 36.

    WaterGirl

    November 30, 2019 at 4:25 pm

    @Badgetoon:

    Graphic novels fit under Our Published Authors. There is already one graphic novel in there.  I will add that to the list up top.  thanks

    edit: I would think that maybe that should be its own heading, along with:

    Fiction

    Non-Fiction

    Graphic Novels

    Plays

    Poetry

    What do the writers think?

  37. 37.

    PhoenixRising

    November 30, 2019 at 4:29 pm

    Balloon Juice Nym: PhoenixRising

    Author Name: ‘Alex King’

    Do you want your BJ nym displayed with your entry? (yes or no) Yes

    Author URL, if you have one: http://thirdtimecharmed.com/wp/about/

    Title 1: Third Time Charmed: what adopting an orphan taught me about love, loss & luck

    Title 1 category/type: Non-fiction

    Title 1 URL: http://thirdtimecharmed.com/wp/

  38. 38.

    Robmassing

    November 30, 2019 at 4:32 pm

    Thank you!

    Balloon Juice Nym: robmassing

    Author Name: Rob Massing

    Do you want your BJ nym displayed with your entry?  (yes or no) Yes

    Author URL, if you have one: http://robmassing.com/

    Title 1: Hardly Strangers

    Title 1 category/type: LGBT fiction

    Title 1 URL: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VLKHPQ3

  39. 39.

    Raven

    November 30, 2019 at 4:34 pm

    @Steeplejack: Thanks!

  40. 40.

    NotMax

    November 30, 2019 at 4:34 pm

    @WaterGirl

    Suggest amending it to Plays & Scripts. Who knows what screenwriters lurk in our midst?

  41. 41.

    debbie

    November 30, 2019 at 4:34 pm

    @Raven:
    Absolutely. Get them down any way you can. When you listen back to them all, I bet you’ll find stuff you never would have thought to look for.

  42. 42.

    WaterGirl

    November 30, 2019 at 4:37 pm

    @munira: I had The Cabin listed already, but I had it as YA fiction.  We must have gotten our wires crossed.  I will move The Cabin from Fiction to Non-Fiction add the other two.  You are our first writer to be listed under 3 different types.

  43. 43.

    NotMax

    November 30, 2019 at 4:37 pm

    @NotMax

    Oh, and also a category for Other. For example, TaMara’s recipe book.

  44. 44.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    November 30, 2019 at 4:37 pm

    @Baud: Is that a pop-up book?

  45. 45.

    PaulWartenberg

    November 30, 2019 at 4:40 pm

    Balloon Juice Nym: PaulWartenberg

    Author Name: Paul Wartenberg

    Do you want your BJ nym displayed with your entry?  (yes or no) Yes

    Author URL, if you have one: https://paulwstories.com

    Title 1: Surviving in the Age of Obstruction: Notes on the Obama Years

    Title 1 category/type: non-fiction

    Title 1 URL: https://www.amazon.com/Surviving-Age-Obstruction-Paul-Wartenberg/dp/1524507938

    Title 2: Body Armor Blues: from the World of Talents

    Title 2 category/type: Fiction/Superhero

    Title 2 URL: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/600060

    Title 3: Hero Cleanup Protocol: from the World of Talents

    Title 3 category/type: Fiction/Superhero

    Title 3 URL: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/51667

     

    Just got in from my writers’ group. Again, Thank You for doing this!

  46. 46.

    WaterGirl

    November 30, 2019 at 4:45 pm

    @NotMax: done!

  47. 47.

    WaterGirl

    November 30, 2019 at 4:46 pm

    @NotMax: TaMara’s recipe book is under Non-Fiction.

  48. 48.

    WaterGirl

    November 30, 2019 at 4:47 pm

    @PaulWartenberg: I see you ditched your original non-fiction work in favor if these three!

  49. 49.

    Yarrow

    November 30, 2019 at 4:53 pm

    @Raven:  Since they’re stories you tell, see if you can tell them and have someone record or video you while you do. You can also have some voice transcription thing running. It’ll be more comfortable for you since that’s how you usually tell them and a gold mine for anyone who might want to watch or listen to it later. Your audience might also ask questions once the main story is done and you can expand on it. If you’re just talking into a microphone on your own that won’t happen.

  50. 50.

    WaterGirl

    November 30, 2019 at 4:57 pm

    @PhoenixRising: I put that under Non-Fiction and then memoir.  If that’s not right, please let me know.

  51. 51.

    Raven

    November 30, 2019 at 5:04 pm

    @Yarrow: Many of mine come in our 20 minute daily visit with our friends at the bakery!

  52. 52.

    HeleninEire

    November 30, 2019 at 5:09 pm

    @Baud: I’d “read” that.

  53. 53.

    WaterGirl

    November 30, 2019 at 5:11 pm

    @HeleninEire: Yeah, a bunch of us will fight you for that “book”!

  54. 54.

    WaterGirl

    November 30, 2019 at 5:12 pm

    @PaulWartenberg: Paul, I added your first title as “politics”. Let me know if that should be something different.

  55. 55.

    WaterGirl

    November 30, 2019 at 5:14 pm

    Okay, first round of Second Round Submissions have been added or changed.  Check the update at the top to see if your entry was added.  Please check my work!  If there are any other additions, I will most likely add those in the morning.

  56. 56.

    Miss Bianca

    November 30, 2019 at 5:17 pm

    @NotMax: Or, heck, magazine or newspaper articles?

     

    But nice feature, WaterGirl! (Not TaMara, what was I thinking!)

  57. 57.

    PaulWartenberg

    November 30, 2019 at 5:20 pm

    @WaterGirl: that would be more accurate, thank you @WaterGirl and again thank you for this Author organizing.

  58. 58.

    Facebones

    November 30, 2019 at 5:20 pm

    Thanks for offering!

    Balloon Juice Nym: Facebones

    Author Name: Victor Catano

    Do you want your BJ nym displayed with your entry?  (yes or no) yes

    Author URL, if you have one: https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B01EVNJ552

    Title 1: Tail & Trouble

    Title 1 category/type: Urban/Modern Fantasy

    Title 1 URL: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01EU99YK8

    Title 2: Winter of our Distemper

    Title 2 category/type: Urban/Modern Fantasy

    Title 2 URL: https://www.amazon.com/Winter-Distemper-Gabriel-Orson-Adventure-ebook/dp/B07YCWB8YT

    Title 3: Tangled Lights and Silent Nights

    Title 3 category/type: Holiday Anthology (for charity!)

    Title 3 URL: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07JDVSMK5/

  59. 59.

    PaulWartenberg

    November 30, 2019 at 5:21 pm

    @WaterGirl: you mean the short story anthology? I am going to be cancelling the contract with XLibris on it soon so I can update it with newer stories and reprint under a different banner (I am looking at IngramSpark because of its availability to libraries /sigh)

  60. 60.

    opiejeanne

    November 30, 2019 at 5:22 pm

    @La Gata Gris: That looks very interesting.

  61. 61.

    WaterGirl

    November 30, 2019 at 5:34 pm

    @PaulWartenberg: You are most welcome!

  62. 62.

    WaterGirl

    November 30, 2019 at 5:35 pm

    @PaulWartenberg: Yes, I think that was the one.  You seem to be a very hard worker! :-)

  63. 63.

    Carol Van Natta

    November 30, 2019 at 5:38 pm

    Balloon Juice Nym: Carol Van Natta

    Author Name: Carol Van Natta

    Do you want your BJ nym displayed with your entry? (yes or no) Yes, please

    Author URL, if you have one: https://author.carolvannatta.com

    Title 1: Overload Flux (Central Galactic Concordance Book 1)

    Title 1 category/type: Fiction / Science Fiction / Space Opera

    Title 1 URL: https://author.carolvannatta.com/OverloadFlux

    Title 2: Shifter Mate Magic (Ice Age Shifters Book 1)

    Title 2 category/type: Fiction / Romance/ Paranormal Romance

    Title 2 URL: https://author.carolvannatta.com/ShifterMateMagic

    Title 3: Shifter’s Storm (Ice Age Shifters Book 5)

    Title 3 category/type: Fiction / Romance/ Paranormal Romance

    Title 3 URL: https://author.carolvannatta.com/ShiftersStorm

    Thank you for the opportunity.

  64. 64.

    WaterGirl

    November 30, 2019 at 5:40 pm

    @Miss Bianca:

    Or, heck, magazine or newspaper articles?

    If a person had, say, short stories published in a magazine, those could definitely be included.  Not sure what you’re thinking of re: newspaper articles.

  65. 65.

    WaterGirl

    November 30, 2019 at 5:42 pm

    @Carol Van Natta: I have never heard of Space Opera!

    (obviously that doesn’t mean it won’t be included)

  66. 66.

    WaterGirl

    November 30, 2019 at 5:44 pm

    @Miss Bianca: No mystery there!  You were thinking that TaMara is the author who does the writers in our midst, authors chatting and writing group posts.

  67. 67.

    opiejeanne

    November 30, 2019 at 5:59 pm

    @WaterGirl:  n Star Wars is Space Opera.

  68. 68.

    Aleta

    November 30, 2019 at 6:06 pm

    @Miss Bianca:
    — fog on the window pane;
    — other people’s rear windshields (the Clean Me! series, though it’s written by an annoying relative not me)

  69. 69.

    J R in WV

    November 30, 2019 at 6:21 pm

    @La Gata Gris:

     

    That title / subject is awesome, so glad you spoke up. Not a ethnobotany student, but always glad to hear of a new technical topic like that. I have neighbors who are biologists who will also love the topic, as they collect local plants from our mid-Appalachian forest.

  70. 70.

    btom89

    November 30, 2019 at 6:22 pm

    Balloon Juice Nym: btom89

    Author Name: B. W. Thomson

    Do you want your BJ nym displayed with your entry? (yes or no) yes

    Author URL, if you have one:

    Title 1: Bill gets a Balloon

    Title 1 category/type: Illustrated political book in children’s book format

    Title 1 URL: https://www.amazon.com/Bill-Gets-Balloon-B-Thomson-ebook/dp/B01LISGDPI/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=B.+W.+Thomson&qid=1575156024&s=digital-text&sr=1-3

    Title 2:The Adventures of Nora the Polar Bear

    Title 2 category/type: Children’s book

    Title 2 URL: https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Nora-Polar-Bear-ebook/dp/B06XGFFT9B/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=B.+W.+Thomson&qid=1575156024&s=digital-text&sr=1-2

    Title 3: Birdland

    Title 3 category/type: Children’s book

    Title 3 URL: https://www.amazon.com/Birdland-B-W-Thomson-ebook/dp/B081GJQ4JZ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=B.+W.+Thomson&qid=1575156024&s=digital-text&sr=1-1

  71. 71.

    Citizen Alan

    November 30, 2019 at 6:32 pm

    Balloon Juice Nym: Citizen Alan

    Author Name: T.S. Mann

    Do you want your BJ nym displayed with your entry?  (yes or no) Yes

    Author URL, if you have one: n/a

    Title 1: Strangers In Boston

    Title 1 category/type: Urban fantasy

    Title 1 URL:  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07RW6C2VV/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0

  72. 72.

    WereBear

    November 30, 2019 at 6:43 pm

    Balloon Juice Nym: WereBear
    Author Name: Pamela Merritt
    Do you want your BJ nym displayed with your entry?  (yes)
    Author URL, if you have one: https://www.wayofcats.com
    Title 1: The Way of Cats
    Title 1 category/type: non-fiction cat advice
    Title 1 URL:  https://www.amazon.com/Way-Cats-their-instincts-understand-ebook/dp/B07DFNMDQ4
     

    Thanks so much!

  73. 73.

    JoyceH

    November 30, 2019 at 6:48 pm

    I’m already listed with one book, but would like to have book 2 and 3 added.

     

    Balloon Juice Nym: JoyceH

    Author Name: Joyce Harmon

    Do you want your BJ nym displayed with your entry?  (yes or no) yes

    Author URL, if you have one:

    Title 1:

    Title 1 category/type:

    Title 1 URL:

    Title 2: Mary Bennet and the Wickham Artifact

    Title 2 category/type: Historical fantasy/Pride and Prejudice sequel

    Title 2 URL:

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07W3NRD64

    Title 3: Mary Bennet and the Beast of Rosings Park

    Title 3 category/type: Historical fantasy/Pride and Prejudice sequel

    Title 3 URL:

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZCB252P/

    Thanks!

  74. 74.

    WaterGirl

    November 30, 2019 at 7:07 pm

    Author Name: Lucy Pick

    Author URL, if you have one: http://lucypick.com

    Title 1: Pilgrimage

    Title 1 category/type: Historical fiction

    Title 1 URL: https://www.amazon.com/Pilgrimage-Lucy-Pick/dp/0991121538

  75. 75.

    WaterGirl

    November 30, 2019 at 7:08 pm

    Author Name: Mark Benbow

    Author URL, if you have one: https://www.amazon.com/Mark-Benbow/e/B004AO8GPS?ref_=dbs_p_pbk_r00_abau_000000

    Title 1: Leading Them to the Promised Land: Woodrow Wilson, Covenant Theology and the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1915

    Title 1 category/type: History

    Title 1 URL: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1606350250/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1

    Title 2: The Nation’s Capital Brewmaster: Christian Heurich and his Brewery: 1842-1956

    Title 2 category/type: History, biography

    Title 2 URL: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/147666501X/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0

  76. 76.

    WaterGirl

    November 30, 2019 at 7:13 pm

    @debbie: I will get the skinny on all the fonts and send them to you.

  77. 77.

    oatler.

    November 30, 2019 at 7:15 pm

    @WaterGirl: Jack Vance wrote a comic novel by that name; in that era he was probably making fun of “horse opera”.

  78. 78.

    Hob

    November 30, 2019 at 7:19 pm

    @WaterGirl: I personally am not crazy about calling all comics “graphic novels”— and that goes for a lot of other cartoonists I know as well. It tends to get used in a confusing way that may or may not include non-novel-like things, like collections of short comics or nonfiction works. Since you’re not distinguishing between book-length and shorter pieces in other media, I would suggest just saying “Comics”, or “Comics/Graphic Novels” if you insist.

  79. 79.

    WaterGirl

    November 30, 2019 at 7:28 pm

    @Hob: I completely agree that not all comics are graphic novels.  I am wondering if graphic novels should get its own category or if it fits within the larger “Fiction” category, that does include short stories as well as novels.

    Are you thinking it should not get its own category?  There are only two graphic novels so far, and one hasn’t been submitted yet, but we do have the poetry and plays categories, and there aren’t many in each yet.  I really don’t have a strong opinion either way.

  80. 80.

    Laura Koerber

    November 30, 2019 at 7:52 pm

    @WaterGirl: i’m sorry to mskr work for you I used to use wonkie but haven’t lately  so you can just skip it. you already have a link to my goodreads page down at the footer  but here’s amazon

    https://www.amazon.com/Once-Was-Lost-But-Found-ebook/dp/B075FWWG73/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=laura+koerber&qid=1575161472&sr=8-4 thank you

  81. 81.

    DavidC

    November 30, 2019 at 7:55 pm

    Oops. I just have scientific papers.

  82. 82.

    mike shupp

    November 30, 2019 at 7:56 pm

    Balloon Juice Nym:    mike shupp

    Author Name:   mike shupp

    Do you want your BJ nym displayed with your entry?  (yes or no)   yes

    Author URL, if you have one:

    Title 1:   The Destiny Makers

    Title 1 category/type:  science fiction (5 novel sequence)

    Title 1 URL:

     

     

    This is an OLD series — 5 books published by Del Rey back in the 1985-91 period.  (With Fate Conspire, Morning of Creation, Soldier of Another Fortune, Death’ Gray Land, The Last Reckoning).  Find them used at Amazon or elsewhere.  Time travel, some battles, a bull-in-a-china shop protagonist,  a telepathic damsel protagonist, a psychotic or two, a fairly grim plot, less than glowing reviews ….

  83. 83.

    debbie

    November 30, 2019 at 8:30 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Thanks!

  84. 84.

    Debbie(Aussie)

    November 30, 2019 at 8:46 pm

    Balloon juice jackaltariat(?) are so talented.

  85. 85.

    Badgetoon

    November 30, 2019 at 9:25 pm

    Balloon Juice Nym: Badgetoon

    Author Name: Mark Badger

    Do you want your BJ nym displayed with your entry?  yes o

    Author URL, if you have one: http://www.markbadger.org

    Title 1: Abstract Sati

    Title 1 category/type: graphic Novel

    Title 1 URL:  https://smile.amazon.com/Abstract-Sati-Mark-Badger/dp/1070823732

    Title 2: Julius Caesar

    Title 2 category/type: Graphic Novel adaptation of the Shakespeare play

    Title 2 URL: https://amzn.to/2Qc7tu7

    Title 3: Just Draw: Stress and the ending of Stress for Cartoonists

    Title 3 category/type: Graphic Novel instructional

    Title 3 URL: https://smile.amazon.com/Just-Draw-Stress-Ending-Cartoonists/dp/1517372291

  86. 86.

    Cliff Wirt

    November 30, 2019 at 10:11 pm

    Balloon Juice Nym: Cliff Wirt

    (Usually I am a lurker)

    Author Name: Cliff Engle Wirt

    Do you want your BJ nym displayed with your entry? (yes or no) Yes

    Author URL, if you have one: http://www.cliffwirt.com/

    Title 1: The Concept Of The Ecstasis

    Title 1 category/type: non-fiction

    Title 1 URL: https://www.academia.edu/14956698/The_Concept_of_the_Ecstasis

    Title 2: The Quality Quest

    Title 2 category/type: non-fiction

    Title 2 URL: https://www.academia.edu/40170212/The_Quality_Quest

  87. 87.

    hitchhiker

    November 30, 2019 at 11:12 pm

     

    Balloon Juice Nym: hitchhiker

    Author Name: Kate Willette

    Do you want your BJ nym displayed with your entry? (yes or no) yes

    Author URL, if you have one:

    Title 1: Don’t Call It a Miracle

    Title 1 category/type: Nonfiction, neuroscience for lay readers

    Title 1 URL: https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Call-Miracle-Movement-Spinal-ebook/dp/B0170BPCE0

  88. 88.

    Aleta

    November 30, 2019 at 11:44 pm

    @La Gata Gris: That looks great.  Sent the link to some friends.

  89. 89.

    JanieM

    November 30, 2019 at 11:49 pm

    @Steeplejack:  Two of my favorite thoughts about writing:

    1) Anne Lamott’s reminder/permission about being okay with “shitty first drafts.” (And about tackling “one-inch frames.”)

    2) A passage from Annie Dillard’s “The Writing Life,” slightly edited for length:

    First you shape the vision of what the projected work of art will be…. But you are wrong if you think that in the actual writing…you are filling in the vision…. The vision is, sub specia aeternitatis, a set of mental relationships, a coherent set of formal possibilities. In the actual rooms of time, however, it is a page or two of legal paper filled with words and questions; it is a terrible diagram, a few books’ names in a margin, an ambiguous doodle, a corner folded down in a library book. These are memos from the thinking brain to witless hope.

  90. 90.

    gwangung

    December 1, 2019 at 12:21 am

    Wow. A lot of authors in our midst…..never dreamed there were so many….

    And….I actually might be part of this:

    Balloon Juice Nym: gwangung

    Author Name: Roger W. Tang

    Do you want your BJ nym displayed with your entry?  (yes or no) Yes

    Author URL, if you have one: http://www.aatrevue.com/

    Title 1: Dawn of the She Devil of the China Seas

    Title 1 category/type: Play set to be produced by Annex Theatre, May/June 2020 (and Puget Sound jackalariats are more than welcome to come)

    Title 1 URL: Not published yet but talking to Mneme Press

    Based on an actual historical figure (the Chinese pirate queen who commanded the largest pirate fleet in history), but given a little sword and sorcery twist (a little Red Sonja and Conan mixed in there).

  91. 91.

    Frankensteinbeck

    December 1, 2019 at 12:26 am

    Woah.  I almost missed this!  Glad I didn’t!

     

    Balloon Juice Nym:  Frankensteinbeck

    Author Name: Richard Roberts

    Do you want your BJ nym displayed with your entry?  (yes or no) I don’t care, so yes

    Author URL, if you have one: https://www.amazon.com/Richard-Roberts/e/B005XOLGVU

    Title 1: Please Don’t Tell My Parents I’m A Supervillain

    Title 1 category/type: Middle Grade Superhero

    Title 1 URL: https://www.amazon.com/Please-Dont-Tell-Parents-Supervillain-ebook/dp/B07SN2F2S5

    Title 2: A Rag Doll’s Guide To Here And There

    Title 2 category/type: MG Fantasy

    Title 2 URL: https://www.amazon.com/Rag-Dolls-Guide-Here-There-ebook/dp/B07PZ2D3HZ

    Title 3: You Can Be A Cyborg When You’re Older

    Title 3 category/type: YA Science Fiction (Cyberpunk)

    Title 3 URL: (To be released within the month, hopefully I’ll have a URL before this goes up)

  92. 92.

    tokyocali (formerly tokyo expat)

    December 1, 2019 at 8:34 am

    @WaterGirl: Thank you for doing this. I am already listed and up to date on books! I don’t even remember doing this, but it was so gratifying to see under Our Authors. Could I add my author website URL? http://ziawestfield.com

    Cheers!

    Also, so amazed to see the talent in our midst. Now, off to get a copy of Tamara’s cookbook, and a few others that have caught my eye.

  93. 93.

    WaterGirl

    December 1, 2019 at 10:49 am

    @Laura Koerber: I can use whatever nym you like, it’s no problem to change it.  Just let me know.

  94. 94.

    WaterGirl

    December 1, 2019 at 11:00 am

    @Cliff Wirt: Cliff, can you please be more specific about the type of book for your two entries?  I think you’ll see what I’m looking for if you look at other entries.  thanks.

  95. 95.

    WaterGirl

    December 1, 2019 at 11:17 am

    @mike shupp: Thanks for the entry.  You’re not supposed to make me hunt for the links, though, that’s not part of the deal! :-)  I learned my lesson on the during during the first call…

  96. 96.

    WaterGirl

    December 1, 2019 at 11:36 am

    @Citizen Alan: Unless you are requesting a change that I haven’t noticed, you were already in from round one!  If there is a change, please point it out to me, thanks.

  97. 97.

    WaterGirl

    December 1, 2019 at 11:56 am

    I believe I have everyone entered through my comment #96 above.  If there are any more entries, I will add them later today.

     

    If you are one of the authors, please check my work to make sure your entry is correct, thanks.

  98. 98.

    WaterGirl

    December 1, 2019 at 12:05 pm

    Author Name: Alex Olson (and Philip Deloria)

    Title 1: American Studies: A User’s Guide

    Title 1 category/type: Non-fiction – history/literature/culture

    Title 1 URL: https://www.amazon.com/American-Studies-Deloria/dp/0520287738/

  99. 99.

    WaterGirl

    December 1, 2019 at 7:48 pm

    It looks like these have stopped coming in, so I will stop checking!  Please send me email if you would like to be added to the Our Authors list.

  100. 100.

    Jack Hughes

    December 1, 2019 at 7:56 pm

  101. 101.

    Jack Hughes

    December 1, 2019 at 7:58 pm

     

    Balloon Juice Nym:JackHughes

    Author Name:Jack Hughes

    Do you want your BJ nym displayed with your entry?  (yes)

    Author URL, if you have one:

    Title 1: The SEED of CRONUS: A Novel

    Title 1 category/type: Sci-Fi / Speculative Fiction

    Title 1 URL:

  102. 102.

    Jack Hughes

    December 1, 2019 at 7:59 pm

    @WaterGirl: Hi- Just added my novel.

    Thanks.

  103. 103.

    WaterGirl

    December 1, 2019 at 10:09 pm

    @Jack Hughes: I already had you on the list from the first round!

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