Uncle Terry

Over a decade ago, T.W. "Terry" McNemar, our former president (2009-2010) began an annual gift guide for books by West Virginia authors. With his unfortunate passing in 2015, we continue this tradition in his honor.  As such, it's only fitting that Terry's books are #1 and #2 on the list.

So while you’re doing your holiday shopping, don’t forget to support these WV Writer, Inc. authors. And don’t forget to stop at your local bookstores: Tamarack, Taylor Books in Charleston, Empire Books & News in Huntington, Four Seasons Books in Shepherdstown, Main Line Books in Elkins, A New Chapter Books in Lewisburg …to name just a few.  Those are great places where you might find these books!

(If you are a member of West Virginia Writers, Inc. and your book is not listed here, please send a link to eric.fritzius@gmail.com.  We'll be happy to post them as well.)

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- webmaster Eric

• Ragdoll Angel by T.W. McNemar
• So This Is Christmas ebook of short stories by T.W. McNemar
• West Virginia Literary Map
• Coal & People and Scribbling and More: A Collection by Shirley Young Campbell
• My People was Music by Kirk Judd
• Chick Flicks and Through the Glass by Barbara Smith
• Wild Sweet Notes edited by Barbara Smith and Kirk Judd
• More than Penny Candy, Beyond the Apple Orchard and other books by Dolly Withrow
• Susan Sheppard's books: Cry of the Banshee; The Gallows Tree; and many other fiction and nonfiction books on the paranormal.
• The Best of Hillbilly: A prize collection of 100-proof writing from Jim Comstock's West Virginia Hillbilly
• Vivid Companion, Have You Had Enough Darkness Yet?, Six O'Clock Mine Report, The Girl with the Stone in Her Lap, and Unthinkable by the late WV Poet Laureate Irene McKinney.
• Beached in the Hourglass illustrated by the author, Ethan Fischer and available from: The Bunny & the Crocodile Press, shops near Shepherdstown)
• Naked Man's Rock by the late Richard A. Lewis
• The Pale Light of Sunset, Crum, Screamin’ with the Cannibals, Magnetic North, Cinco Becknell by the late Lee Maynard
• Blue Planet Memoirs by the late Joseph Patrick Barrett
• Where Do People in Dreams Come From?: And Other Poems; Sing Me Different; The Muntu Poets of Cleveland; The Muntu Poets of Cleveland, Vol 2. by the late Norman Jordan
• Furrows on Parchment, Musings After Midnight and New River Reflections by Miles Dean
• WVW President R.G. Yoho's western novels:  Death Comes to Redhawk; Long Ride to Yesterday; Death Rides the Rail; Return to Matewan; The Evil Day; America's History is His Story; Nightfall over Nicodemus; Major Impact; The Evil Day; Boot Valley Hill, A Gun for Ringo; Palo Duro. 
• Books by Carter Taylor Seaton: amo, amas, amat...: An Unconventional Love Story; Hippie Homesteaders; Father's Trouble$, The Rebel in the Red Jeep: Ken Hechler's Life in West Virginia Politics; Me & Mary Ann.
• Fragile Brilliance, Breakdown at Clear River, The Prospect, Making Arrangements, and A Knife's Edge by Eliot Parker.
• Everything I Know, its sequel Laundry to Love: Everything I Know about Life, and The Plain English Writers Workbook by Sandy Tritt
• Local Journeys; Green-Silver and SIlent: Poems; Believe What You Can; and the many children's books of WV Poet Laureate Marc Harshman
• Books by Lisa McCombs such as:  I Have MS. What's Your Super Power? and Bombs Bursting In Air.
• Separate Ways by Joshua Robinson
• Books by Michael Connick, such as: Trapped in a Hall of Mirrors; Funhouse Mirrors; Afghan Mirrors.
• Still Life With Plums and The Patron Saint of Ugly by Marie Manilla
• Books by Meredith Sue Willis, such as: A Space Apart; Ten Strategies for Writing Your Novel; Dwight's House and Other Stories; Out of the Mountains: Appalachian Stories (Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia); Ten Strategies to Write Your Novel; Re-visions: Stories from Stories.
• Robert Fouch's novels for children: Christmas Carol & the Defenders of Claus; and Little & Big: A Bigfoot Story.
• Clyde the Undead Dust Bunny, Fiddlebug, Sheridan Starswimmer, Queen Calla's Heroes, by Brittney Cassity
• From Fingers of Bone by Josie Dorans.
• Riding on Comets by Cat Pleska
• Voices on Unity: Coming Together, Falling Apart - a collection of essays from Mountain State Press.
• Letters to My Son: Reflections of Urban Appalachia at Mid Century by M. Lynne Squires
• A Consternation of Monsters stories by Eric Fritzius, also available as an audiobook.  Eric's audiobook narrations include How to Carry Bigfoot Home by Chris Tarry, Mississippi Nights by D.M. Webb, The Blackstar of Kingston by S.D. Smith, The Last Archer by S.D. Smith. and the forthcoming The Wreck and Rise of Whitson Mariner by S.D. Smith.
• Sarah Blizzard's book As a Result.
• Jane Congdon's books: Mr. Joe: Tales from a Haunted Life; It Started with Dracula: The Count, My Mother, and Me; and How the WILD EFFECT Turned Me into a Hiker at 69: An Appalachian Trail Adventure.
• Anastasia Knudsen (CD) "Well I can't have both of you".
• Gena Ellis's nonfiction chronicle of her film experience: Angela's Decision: A Journey of Adaptation.
• The Sound of Holding Your Breath by Natalie Sypolt.
• View from Blue-Jade Mountain poems by Robert Merritt.
• Diner Stories: Off the Menu edited by Daniel McTaggart. Also by McTaggart, Diner Poems, Midnight Muse in a Convenience Store.
• Pam Hanson's books: Hometown Reunion; Family Heirlooms; All Things New; and other romance novels penned with her mother Barbara Anderson.
• Pocket Change and Blood Kin and Other Strangers by Patsy Evans Pittman
• West Virginia Histories: Unique People, Unusual Events, and the Occasional Ghost and West Virginia Histories: Days of Slavery, Civil War and Aftermath, Statehood and Beyond by Gerald Swick.
• Letters to Buddha by Victor M. Depta, among many other excellent poetry collections available through Blair Mountain Press.
• Kettle Bottom by Diane Gilliam Fisher
• The Well Ain't Dry Yet, The Bingo Cheaters, Buckle Up, Buttercup, and Jackson Vs. Witchy Wanda: Making Kid Soup by Belinda Anderson
• Rain No Evil by Michelle Zirkle Marcum.
• Books by T. Byron Kelly, such as: Poems of the Infinite Dream; Project End Of Days: Selected Poems; Va. West Va.: Selected Poems; & New Selected Poems of T.Byron Kelly.
• The Scrap This mystery series, the New Beginnings mystery series, and Dying for Redemption by Christina Freeburn.
• The Last Ereph, and Other Stories, Moore Hollow, The Destiny Engine, the Water Road Trilogy, by J.D. Byrne.
• Cole Smith's debut WV-set mystery, Waiting for Jacob.
• Hope After Traumatic Brain Injury, My Journey Back From the Edge by Rodney Smith
• Short and Simple Annals: Poems About Appalachia' and Llewellyn McKernan's Greatest Hits by Llewellyn McKernan.
• To Keep The South Manitou Light, Golden Delicious: A Cinderella Apple Story and The Life of St. Brigid by Anna Egan Smucker
• Tim Hueguenin's novels:  When the Watcher Shakes and Little One.
• S.D. Smiths' novels The Green Ember; Ember Falls; Ember Rising, The Black Star of Kingston; The Last Archer; and The Wreck and Rise of Whitson Mariner.  Also check out The Black Star of Kingston audio book, and The Last Archer both with narration by Eric Fritzius.
• Live 'n Drivin' On (CD), Milepost 5 (CD), Crum Session (CD), Cuttin' In Line at the Karmic Buffet (CD) by Pops Walker
• Undercover Muse (CD), Dance Across the Sky (CD) by Kipyn Martin

• "Think, Feel, Live" by Rob Shipley (CD)

• Doug & Telisha Williams/Wild Ponies (Music)

• Gathering Stones (CD) and West Virginia Serenade by Keith and Joan Pitzer
• The Return of the Mothman, by Michael Knost, and Writers Workshop of Horror, Writers Workshop of Science Fiction and Fantasy, and Author's Guide to Marketing with Teeth, edited by Michael Knost.
• The many books published by Woodland Press. including Fed From the Blade, edited by Cat Pleska and Michael Knost.
• Short Plays & Monologues, American Standard, and A Bitsy and Boots Holiday Special by Jonathan Joy.
• Lake Effect and The Silver Tattoo by Laura Treacy Bentley
• The Savage Murder of Skylar Neese: The Truth Behind the Headlines and Pretty Little Killers: The Truth Behind the Savage Murder of Skylar Neese by Daleen Berry and G. Cameron Fuller.  Also see the Mared and Karen Podcast co-hosted by G. Cameron Fuller.  Full Bone Moon by G. Cameron Fuller
• Daleen Berry's other books: Sister of Silence; Tales of the Vintage Berry Wine Gang; The Silver Tattoo.
• Tim Huguenin's novels: When the Watcher Shakes and Little One.
• Valley Girl by Crystal Good
• The CD collections of the stories of Granny Sue Holstein:  Beyond the Grave, Ghost Stories from the Mountains; Beyond the Grave II; Idy Mae's Full Moon and other Stories and Songs by Granny Sue Holstein.
• S.G. Redling's novels: Flowertown, Baggage, Redemption Key, The Widow File, Damocles, Braid, Ourselves, The Reaches. 
• The Miner's Daughter and The Midwife's Tale Gretchen Moran Laskas
• I Saw God Dancing and What's in the Blood by Cheryl Denise
• Livvie Owen Lived Here; Body of Water; and Free Verse by Sarah Dooley
• Disequilibrium and the Multi-Faceted Crystal Ball by Teresa Flerx
• The novels of Don Kesterson: The President's Gold; Gold of the Spirits; PAWNS: Magic Bullet; PAWNS: Kings in Check.
• The Psalms of Israel Jones, The Measure of Everything, and I Was So Much Older Then and by Ed Davis
• Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
• Hometown Reunion, Family Heirlooms, All Things New, and other romance novels by Pam and Barbara Andrews (a.k.a. Pam Hanson and Barbara Andrews)
• Death Falcon vs. The Zombie Slug Lords by William Bitner and Daniel Boyd
• Carbon and its sequel Salt by Daniel Boyd.
• M is For Monster, T is for Thing, N is for Nightmare,  Gone Where the Goblins Go by William Bitner
• Mountain Voices by the members of the WV Writers Roundtable
• Cayman Cowboys, Land Sharks, Return to Cayman, Lyin' Fish by Eric Douglas
• Bertha Butcher's Coat and Alice Saw the Beauty by Mary Lucille DeBerry
• Serendipity Hollow, Gap Hollow, Sandlick Hollow, (the Hollow Trilogy) and Concrete Girl by David Brown
• Short and Simple Annals: Poems About Appalachia' and Llewellyn McKernan's Greatest Hits by Llewellyn McKernan
• The Almost Christmas Pony by Ruth Lynn Kirk 
• Jester Knight by Joey Madia.
• Frontier Surgeon and House Calls in the Hills by Jay Banks, M.D. 
• Eyes in the Attic by Nadine McKinney
• Pilgrim of the Neo-Dark Ages (CD); and Someone Screaming Out by Tim Armentrout
• Broken Umbrellas and The Wind Keeper by Emma Broch Stuart
• In the Heart of the Hills: A Novel in Stories, Valley at Risk: Shelter in Place, and Witness at Hawk's Nest by Dwight Harshbarger
• The West Virginia Encyclopedia, Ken Sullivan, editor
• Scrambled Eggs at Midnight, Dream Factory, and Jars of Glass by Brad Barkley
• Feast of the Seven Fishes by Robert Tinnell
• The Rock and the Pebble by Mark Defoe

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While you’re finishing up your holiday shopping, don’t forget to support these WV Writer, Inc. authors. And don’t forget to stop at your local bookstores: Tamarack, James and Law, Borders, B & N, Frog Creek Books, the Open Book in Lewisburg, McClain’s Printing, Vandalia Press, Main Line Books, …to name just a few. This is where you might find these books! You may also send links if you have a website as a sales tool. Be happy to post it. Thanks.

UPDATED 12/10/09

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UPDATED 12/10/09

While you’re finishing up your holiday shopping, don’t forget to support these WV Writer, Inc. authors. And don’t forget to stop at your local bookstores: Tamarack, James and Law, Borders, B & N, Frog Creek Books, the Open Book in Lewisburg, McClain’s Printing, Vandalia Press, Main Line Books, …to name just a few. This is where you might find these books! You may also send links if you have a website as a sales tool. Be happy to post it. Thanks.

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The West Virginia Writers, Inc. Members Book List!
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1. The Rock and the Pebble by Mark Defoe

2. Mountain Voices by The members of the WV Writers Roundtable

3. Black Days, Black Dust by Armstead and S.L. Gardner

4. Return to Io by Henry Palek

5. Surviving Mae West by Priscilla Rodd

6. Southern Fried Woman by Pamela King Cable

7. Landscape Architects by Rob Merritt

8. Attitude Therapy by Deb Copeland

9. Wild Sweet Notes I & II by ……everyone

10. To Keep The South Manitou Light by Anna Egan Smucker

11. Looking Good by Keith Maillard

12. Screamin’ with the Cannibals by Lee Maynard

13. Feast of the Seven Fishes by Robert Tinnell

14. When Miners March and Lost Highway (audiobooks) by Ross Ballard

15. When Good Babies go Bad by Celeste Vingle

16. PSI Blue by Rob Walker

17. The Tree of the Nevee: A Kabbalistic Story of Elijah the Wizard by Jerry Blair

18. Demonstrative Pronouns: Poetry by Barbara Smith

19. Arrivederci, Recipes and Customs Every Italian Girl Takes From Home by Rosalyn Queen Alonso

20. The Measure of Everything, by Ed Davis.

21. ‘Everything I Know’ by Sandy Tritt

22. Oscar and the Rainbow by Marilyn McIntosh Blair

23. The West Virginia Encyclopedia, Ken Sullivan, editor

24. ‘Journey of the Snow Goose’ (just out today) and ‘No Name Harbor’ by Barbery Chaapel

25. ‘Sarah Beth, Eat Your Broccoli!’ by Nancy Merical

26. ‘I Saw God Dancing’ by Cheryl Denise

27. My.th by Boyd Carr

28. ‘Going’ by Kevin Oderman

We’ll keep adding these WVWriter, Inc. authors to our list until Christmas and then some.

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