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Balloon Juice Published Authors was last updated March 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 (@vgcatano on Twitter and Instagram)
· 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)
Bradley Greenburg / BGinCHI
· When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed (historical fiction)
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)
R. Jamie Langa / R. Jamie Langa
· The Dream of the White Elephant (mystery/police procedural)
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)
Kristine Smith / Kristine
· The Jani Kilian Chronicles (adventure SF with hard medical detail)
· Other works (mostly fantasy short stories)
· The Gideon Witches (supernatural suspense/modern day witches in IL) written as Alex Gordon
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)
Peter J. Osterhaus
· Songs for Mrs. Tree: poems in the wake of loss (poetry)
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
· Seven plays and one anthology of short plays published by Smith Scripts.