Uncle Terry’s Gift Ideas from WV Authors List 2021

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, 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.)

• Ragdoll Angel by T.W. McNemar
• So This Is Christmas ebook of short stories by T.W. McNemar
• Writerly Advice: Tips & Technques from West Virginia Writers
• 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
• The late 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
• Live 'n Drivin' On (CD), Milepost 5 (CD), Crum Session (CD), Cuttin' In Line at the Karmic Buffet (CD) by the late Pops Walker
• Blue Planet Memoirs by the late Joseph Patrick Barrett
• Milky Way Accent by Bob Snyder
• 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, and The Other Morgans.
• Books by Michael Connick, such as: Trapped in a Hall of Mirrors; Funhouse Mirrors; Afghan Mirrors.
• A Different Tail and Play Day With Daddy by Cheryl Kula.
• Blood in West Virginia by Brandon Kirk
• Strangers & Aliens, Dreadknights: For the Love of the Game, Luckbane, Soulbright, Garden of Stone,  Johnny Came Home, and Gray Barkers Book of Monsters by Tony Breeden
• Laundry to Love: Everything I Know about Life, and The Plain English Writers Workbook by Sandy Tritt
• Fragile Brilliance, Breakdown at Clear River, The Prospect, Making Arrangements, A Knife's Edge, and A Final Call by Eliot Parker.
• Local Journeys; Green-Silver and SIlent: Poems; Believe What You Can; and the many children's books of WV Poet Laureate Marc Harshman
• The Lightness of Water & Other Stories by Rhonda Browning White
• The Runaways: A Billie Rose Tackett Horse Adventure by Brenda Barnes-Clark
• Cooking With Family: Recipes and Remembrances, Duck and Cover, Where the Stars Grant Wishes, Fun Through the Seasons Vol I and II, and Hum Hum Hummingbirds by Janet F. Smart
• Books by Lisa McCombs such as:  I Have MS. What's Your Super Power? and Bombs Bursting In Air.
• My Velvet Elvis and The Almost Christmas Pony by Ruth L. Kirk 
• Masked Mayhem : Maladies and The Last Call by London Blue
• Ivory Hollyhock Collected Poems by Dreama Wyant Frisk
• The Brave Knight by Diane Tarantini (will soon be available via online retailers.  You can purchase a copy in the meantime via Pay Pal by sending $12 per book with $3 shipping per book to diane@dianetarantini.com.  Be sure to include your preferred mailing address.
• Separate Ways by Joshua Robinson
• Hopping to America: A Rabbit's Tale of La Befana, Hopping to America: A Rabbit's Tale of a Wedding, Spaghetti & Meatballs: Growing Up Italian, and I Don't Want to Sit in the Front Row Any More by Diana Pishner Walker
• 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; Christmas Carol and the Shimmering Elf; 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.
• Cromwell’s Folly, No Good Deed Left Undone, Lying, Cheating, and Occasionally Murder, No End of Bad, Blue Girl on a Night Dream Sea, Possession, and Thoughts & Prayers (as Lee Anne Post) by Ginny Fite
• 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 other audiobook narrations include How to Carry Bigfoot Home by Chris Tarry, Mississippi Nights by D.M. Webb, The Blackstar of Kingston, The Wreck and Rise of Whitson Mariner, The Last Archer, The First Fowler, and The Archer's Cup by S.D. Smith, and To the Bones by Valerie Nieman
• Vada Faith, Ezra and Other Stories, Dear Anne: Love Letters from Nam, and Missing: Sweet Baby James by Barbara Whittington
• Sarah Blizzard's memoir 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 short film Angela's Experience is available on Amazon.  She has also written a nonfiction chronicle of her experience making the film : Angela's Decision: A Journey of Adaptation. Gena also has the Kindle short stories Hillbilly Chocolate: a lil' ol story and Christmas Tradition.
• 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.
• To the Bones by Valerie Nieman (available in paperback, ebook and audiobook narrated by Eric Fritzius)
• Feast of the Seven Fishes by Robert Tinnell (NOW A MOTION PICTURE!)
• Eternity That Is the latest collection of poems 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.
• Terrebonne by Robin Elaine
• 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, and the Unari Empire Trilogy by J.D. Byrne.
• Waiting for Jacob and Ursula Spark and the Fourth Frankenstein and Writers Write! by Cole Smith.
• 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 Huguenin's novels:  When the Watcher Shakes and Little One.
• S.D. Smiths' novels The Green Ember; Ember Falls; Ember Rising, Ember's End, The Black Star of Kingston; The Wreck and Rise of Whitson Mariner; The Last Archer; The First Fowler, The Archer's Cup.  Also check out Smith's titles as audiobooks, some with narration by WV Writers own Eric Fritzius.
• Undercover Muse (CD), Dance Across the Sky (CD) by Kipyn Martin

• 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 Horror 2, Writers Workshop of Science Fiction and Fantasy, and Author's Guide to Marketing with Teeth, and 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 , Night Terrors, Looking for Ireland: An Irish-Appalachian Pilgrimage, The Silver Tattoo, and Sir Grace and the Big Blizzard 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, Trigger and At Risk. 
• 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
• 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
• The Adventures of Wandala, 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
• 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
• Scrambled Eggs at Midnight, Dream Factory, and Jars of Glass by Brad Barkley
• The Rock and the Pebble by Mark Defoe
• 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