Uncle Terry’s Gift Ideas from WV Authors List 2015

Nigh on a decade ago, Terry McNemar, our former president who recently passed away, began an annual gift guide for books by West Virginia authors.  The last time we ran one on this blog, however, was 2011.  With his passing this year, we felt it was time to re-institute this annual tradition in his honor.  And 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, the Open Book in Lewisburg, Four Seasons Books in Shepherdstown, Vandalia Press, Main Line Books in Elkins, …to name just a few.  Those are great places where you might find these books!

If you are a member of West Virginia Writers and your book is not listed here, please send it in immediately and we will get you added to the list.  Send those to wvwriterssecretary@gmail.com.  You may also send links to your own website.  We'll be happy to post them as well.

Thanks.

• Ragdoll Angel by T.W. McNemar

• So This Is Christmas ebook by T.W. McNemar

• Mountain Voices by the members of the WV Writers Roundtable

• Naked Man's Rock by Richard A. Lewis

• Beached in the Hourglass illustrated by the author, Ethan Fischer and available from: The Bunny & the Crocodile Press, shops near Shepherdstown)

• Where Do People in Dreams Come From?: And Other Poems by Norman Jordan

• Furrows on Parchment, Musings After Midnight and New River Reflections by Miles Dean

• Everything I Know and Tips and Techniques Workbook by Sandy Tritt

• Still Life With Plums and The Patron Saint of Ugly by Marie Manilla

• The Pale Light of Sunset, Crum, Screamin’ with the Cannibals, Magnetic North, Cinco Becknell by Lee Maynard

• Clyde the Undead Dust Bunny, Fiddlebug, Sheridan Starswimmer, Queen Calla's Heroes, by Brittney Cassity

• Riding on Comets by Cat Pleska

• My People was Music by Kirk Judd

• More than Penny Candy, Beyond the Apple Orchard and other books by Dolly Withrow

• Chick Flicks and Through the Glass by Barbara Smith

• Wild Sweet Notes edited by Barbara Smith and Kirk Judd

• Coal & People and Scribbling and More: A Collection by Shirley Young Campbell

• Vivid Companion, Have You Had Enough Darkness Yet?, Six O'Clock Mine Report, The Girl with the Stone in Her Lap, and Unthinkable by Irene McKinney.

• Local Journeys, Green-Silver and SIlent: Poems, and the many children's books of WV Poet Laureate Marc Harshman.

• A Consternation of Monsters by Eric Fritzius

• Diner Stories: Off the Menu edited by Daniel McTaggart

• Letters to Buddha by Victor M. Depta

• Kettle Bottom by Diane Gilliam Fisher

• Fragile Brilliance, Breakdown at Clear River, the Prospect, and Making Arrangements by Eliot Parker.

• The Well Ain't Dry Yet, The Bingo Cheaters, Buckle Up, Buttercup, and Jackson Vs. Witchy Wanda: Making Kid Soup by Belinda Anderson

• 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, and The Destiny Engine by J.D. Byrne.

• The Green Ember and The Black Star of Kingston by S.D. Smith

• 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.

• Jester Knight by Joey Madia.

• 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.

• Full Bone Moon by G. Cameron Fuller

• Valley Girl by Crystal Good

• Beyond the Grave, Ghost Stories from the Mountains (CD) of stories by Granny Sue Holstein

• Flowertown, Baggage, Redemption Key, The Widow File, Damocles, Braid, Ourselves by S.G. Redling.

• Past Due, Defying Reason, Fate Intended, Bella's Point and Healing Summer by Elizabeth Seckman

• 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

• amo, amas, amat...: An Unconventional Love Story, Hippie Homesteaders, Father's Trouble$, by Carter Taylor Seaton

• Livvie Owen Lived Here and Body of Water by Sarah Dooley

• The Psalms of Israel Jones, The Measure of Everything, and I Was So Much Older Then and by Ed Davis

• Lord of Misrule and Jaimy Gordon

• Out of the Mountains: Appalachian Stories (Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia), Ten Strategies to Write Your Novel and Re-visions: Stories from Stories by Meredith Sue Willis

• Hometown Reunion, Family Heirlooms, All Things New, and other romance novels by Pam and Barbara Andrews (a.k.a. Pam Hanson and Barbara Andrews)

• Pocket Change and Blood Kin and Other Strangers by Patsy Evans Pittman

• Death Falcon vs. The Zombie Slug Lords by William Bitner and Daniel Boyd

• Carbon by Daniel Boyd.

• M is For Monster, T is for Thing, N is for Nightmare,  Gone Where the Goblins Go by William Bitner

• 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

• Letters to My Son: Reflections of Urban Appalachia at Mid Century by M. Lynn Squires

• Short and Simple Annals: Poems About Appalachia' and Llewellyn McKernan's Greatest Hits by Llewellyn McKernan

• The Almost Christmas Pony by Ruth Lynn Kirk 

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

• To Keep The South Manitou Light, Golden Delicious: A Cinderella Apple Story and The Life of St. Brigid by Anna Egan Smucker

• Blood Clay, Fidelities, and Wake Wake Wake by Valerie G. Nieman

• Kathleen Coffee (CD) and Grow Love (CD) by Kathleen Coffee

• 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) by Tim Armentrout

• Death Comes to Redhawk, Long Ride to Yesterday, and Death Rides the Rail by R.G. Yoho

• Writers Workshop of Horror, Writers Workshop of Science Fiction, Author's Guide to Marketing with Teeth, Dark Tales of Terror, Mountain Magic, The Mothman Files, and Specters in Coal Dust, published by Woodland Press

• 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

• Disequilibrium and the Multi-Faceted Crystal Ball by Teresa Flerx

• The West Virginia Encyclopedia, Ken Sullivan, editor

• Lake Effect and The Silver Tattoo by Laura Treacy Bentley

• Kilpara by Patricia Hopper

• A subscription to Two-Lane Livin' Magazine, which features columns by 5 members of WV Writers Inc.   $30 a year, Stumptown Publishing, 2287 Rosedale Road, Stumptown, WV 25267

• Scrambled Eggs at Midnight, Dream Factory, and Jars of Glass by Brad Barkley

• SI Blue and Titanic 2012 and other books by Robert Walker

• Feast of the Seven Fishes by Robert Tinnell

• The Rock and the Pebble by Mark Defoe

• Legends: Profiles of West Virginia University Basketball by Norman Julian

• The Green Rolling Hills: Writings from West Virginia edited by V.J. Banis (anthology, various authors, included) or from Amazon.