Please help us buy your books. October 7, 2011 10:58 AM Subscribe
So, I was reading the writer's block post, and I had a thought....is there a central repository of all of the published writers here? I'm a pretty big book buyer, and I'd happily support the authors here.
I guess there's anonymity problems, maybe, so if you have stuff for sale and would rather not pipe up in thread, memail me!
If you do decide to answer, I guess an Amazon link would be cool. Or maybe it already exists and I'm just a dumbass, so a link to that would also be great.
I guess there's anonymity problems, maybe, so if you have stuff for sale and would rather not pipe up in thread, memail me!
If you do decide to answer, I guess an Amazon link would be cool. Or maybe it already exists and I'm just a dumbass, so a link to that would also be great.
One minute? Clearly the userbase is slacking.
posted by nevercalm at 11:02 AM on October 7, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by nevercalm at 11:02 AM on October 7, 2011 [2 favorites]
Heh.
I do a bit of work on the wiki and in a weird coincidence already had that page open in a tab.
I am cross-checking The MeFite Library page to confirm that anyone appropriate listed there is on the Published Authors page. I also need to add some works by EmpressC that I had forgotten about until this AM.
posted by zarq at 11:06 AM on October 7, 2011 [2 favorites]
I do a bit of work on the wiki and in a weird coincidence already had that page open in a tab.
I am cross-checking The MeFite Library page to confirm that anyone appropriate listed there is on the Published Authors page. I also need to add some works by EmpressC that I had forgotten about until this AM.
posted by zarq at 11:06 AM on October 7, 2011 [2 favorites]
I've been sort of idly working on a book since a slow work day made me write the first chapter of an intentionally terrible steampunk novel(la) in the Amanda Hocking thread, for e-publishing; some folks suggested they'd be into reading an entire book like that, and I figured, why not? There's a notification list for it and all, but anyway: But for a few edits, it's done, and before terribly long there should be some sort of information on how to buy it (as promised, it will be maybe three bucks).
So: Not yet, but real soon.
posted by FAMOUS MONSTER at 11:14 AM on October 7, 2011
So: Not yet, but real soon.
posted by FAMOUS MONSTER at 11:14 AM on October 7, 2011
I wanna be totally clear when I talk about "my first novel" I'm talking about the trunk-bound pile of teenage angst that, with another extensive revision, may possibly be not totally embarrassing to show to people but will probably never be publishable. (The second one might actually go somewhere. We'll see if I can get an actual ending on it.)
posted by restless_nomad (staff) at 11:17 AM on October 7, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by restless_nomad (staff) at 11:17 AM on October 7, 2011 [1 favorite]
Whoa! Love the new staff button! Where can I pick one up?
posted by Mister_A at 11:33 AM on October 7, 2011
posted by Mister_A at 11:33 AM on October 7, 2011
I don't know the whole story, but I can guess why Jenny left based on the top tags on her profile:
smug sexism plague oh
posted by Mister_A at 11:41 AM on October 7, 2011
smug sexism plague oh
posted by Mister_A at 11:41 AM on October 7, 2011
I always feel really cheesy about mentioning my book. I don't know why. I should probably get over that. But mine was published in August. I'm not in the wiki or anything, so here you go.
posted by katillathehun at 12:10 PM on October 7, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by katillathehun at 12:10 PM on October 7, 2011 [1 favorite]
katilla, if no one else adds it in, I'll do so within the next day or two.
posted by zarq at 12:15 PM on October 7, 2011
posted by zarq at 12:15 PM on October 7, 2011
there, I just put myself in. I didn't include the stuff I did for anthologies, I have a lot of short stories in various places floating around .
posted by The Whelk at 12:27 PM on October 7, 2011
posted by The Whelk at 12:27 PM on October 7, 2011
(aside from Strange tales just cause I'm really proud of that and you should read it)
posted by The Whelk at 12:28 PM on October 7, 2011
posted by The Whelk at 12:28 PM on October 7, 2011
Actually, zarq, the page which had all my stuff is gone, so I can take the credit, but the link is broken. (woe.)
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 12:31 PM on October 7, 2011
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 12:31 PM on October 7, 2011
I should have added that maybe this might be a good self-linky place where you can throw in stuff you're proud of that can really only be found online.
And you should never feel cheesy mentioning your work....it is, after all, YOUR WORK.
posted by nevercalm at 1:07 PM on October 7, 2011 [1 favorite]
And you should never feel cheesy mentioning your work....it is, after all, YOUR WORK.
posted by nevercalm at 1:07 PM on October 7, 2011 [1 favorite]
There's a really awesome bunch of published YA authors here--changeling, mothershock, headspace, and jeanne come to mind (and cider works in the biz too, but not as an author). I'm always uber happy when there's a YA reading recs question on ask and I click it to find they've already covered all of the bases.
I do not count myself among them yet, but my agent is working on it. I've got some short stories in places, though.
posted by PhoBWanKenobi at 1:08 PM on October 7, 2011
I do not count myself among them yet, but my agent is working on it. I've got some short stories in places, though.
posted by PhoBWanKenobi at 1:08 PM on October 7, 2011
katilla, I just put your book in an epic Amazon cart I've got going. It looks like it'll be right up several local alleys, here.
posted by nevercalm at 1:11 PM on October 7, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by nevercalm at 1:11 PM on October 7, 2011 [1 favorite]
Hey, Adam Roberts used to post here. I can thoroughly recommend Yellow Blue Tibia--one of the best science fiction novels I read last year.
posted by IjonTichy at 1:14 PM on October 7, 2011
posted by IjonTichy at 1:14 PM on October 7, 2011
Probably quite a few people on here (about 40%, it sometimes seems, but perhaps that's just the threads I read) are, like me, academics, with publications we might brandish proudly before a tenure review board, but which don't really cut it when compared with mothershock's Daring Book for Girls.
And, equally, perhaps we don't want members of our tenure review boards to be only two clicks away from our comments in the BDSM threads.
You can download a sample chapter of my book from my Academia.edu pages! If you can work out which of those 642,769 researchers I am!
posted by lapsangsouchong at 1:18 PM on October 7, 2011 [1 favorite]
And, equally, perhaps we don't want members of our tenure review boards to be only two clicks away from our comments in the BDSM threads.
You can download a sample chapter of my book from my Academia.edu pages! If you can work out which of those 642,769 researchers I am!
posted by lapsangsouchong at 1:18 PM on October 7, 2011 [1 favorite]
I have a WordPress page where I keep track of the things I've had published online because otherwise I forget where they are.
posted by shakespeherian at 1:27 PM on October 7, 2011
posted by shakespeherian at 1:27 PM on October 7, 2011
Since shakespeherian's gone ahead and done it, here is my online bibliography and also I slapped up a free short story on goodreads (click "read book" under the cover) if you're into, like, teenage alien angst.
posted by PhoBWanKenobi at 1:29 PM on October 7, 2011
posted by PhoBWanKenobi at 1:29 PM on October 7, 2011
Hey, zarq, what about published works written under pseudonyms? Are they allowed?
posted by misha at 1:38 PM on October 7, 2011
posted by misha at 1:38 PM on October 7, 2011
this seems like a great place to share: the lovely mothershock, whom I met on metafilter, blurbed my second book :) (she's on the cover!)
posted by changeling at 1:53 PM on October 7, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by changeling at 1:53 PM on October 7, 2011 [2 favorites]
(actually, via metafilter is more apt.)
posted by changeling at 2:05 PM on October 7, 2011
posted by changeling at 2:05 PM on October 7, 2011
I wrote or co-wrote a couple of really shitty books for Flash developers about ten years ago. There's no way I'm saying what the titles were, for fear that someone might find a copy and follow me down the street reading passages in a sneering voice.
I'm betting there's a few people around here staying quiet about the shockingly awful things they've had published.
posted by le morte de bea arthur at 2:09 PM on October 7, 2011 [2 favorites]
I'm betting there's a few people around here staying quiet about the shockingly awful things they've had published.
posted by le morte de bea arthur at 2:09 PM on October 7, 2011 [2 favorites]
I wrote a book about Beethoven's pianism. Probably counts as noise or derail.
posted by Namlit at 2:57 PM on October 7, 2011
posted by Namlit at 2:57 PM on October 7, 2011
Does being one of 30+ credited contributors to a People's Almanac spin-off count? (Sadly, I did not get credited for the more respectable Book of Lists 2 since my full-list contributions didn't make the final cut) Or writing an "Outroduction" for a book of webcomics? (Yes, I did steal that other Craig's "what have we learned" line in there) If not, i got nothin' (in print).
posted by oneswellfoop at 3:07 PM on October 7, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by oneswellfoop at 3:07 PM on October 7, 2011 [1 favorite]
I writed u a books, but they out of printed.
posted by The otter lady at 3:24 PM on October 7, 2011 [4 favorites]
posted by The otter lady at 3:24 PM on October 7, 2011 [4 favorites]
I had my name in the credits of a video game.
Where's my cookie?
posted by Stagger Lee at 3:25 PM on October 7, 2011
Where's my cookie?
posted by Stagger Lee at 3:25 PM on October 7, 2011
Well, this was just published here. So yeah, I am also a famous author!
posted by tumid dahlia at 4:10 PM on October 7, 2011
posted by tumid dahlia at 4:10 PM on October 7, 2011
Do mind numbingly boring law journal publications count?
posted by Dr. Zira at 5:48 PM on October 7, 2011
posted by Dr. Zira at 5:48 PM on October 7, 2011
I was the second-unit title monster in a Roger Corman movie. Is there a page for that?
posted by msalt at 5:50 PM on October 7, 2011
posted by msalt at 5:50 PM on October 7, 2011
I may be doing this wrong but:
book 1, book 2, anthology I'm in 1, anthology I'm in 2
posted by msalt at 6:03 PM on October 7, 2011
book 1, book 2, anthology I'm in 1, anthology I'm in 2
posted by msalt at 6:03 PM on October 7, 2011
Misha, sure! It's our wiki, so we make the rules.
If you'd like, memail me the way you'd like it to appear or just comment with it here and I'll post it for you.
posted by zarq at 6:39 PM on October 7, 2011
If you'd like, memail me the way you'd like it to appear or just comment with it here and I'll post it for you.
posted by zarq at 6:39 PM on October 7, 2011
I don't see languagehat's Uglier Than a Monkey's Armpit: Untranslatable Insults, Put-Downs, and Curses from Around the World on the Wiki.
posted by unliteral at 9:26 PM on October 7, 2011
posted by unliteral at 9:26 PM on October 7, 2011
I compiled, edited and have an essay in The First Time I Got Paid For It: Writers' Tales From the Hollywood Trenches. It's been in print for over 10 years, and is used as a text in several film schools. Proceeds go to the Writers Guild Foundation, not to me.
posted by ljshapiro at 9:59 PM on October 7, 2011
posted by ljshapiro at 9:59 PM on October 7, 2011
I'm on the Mefite Library page but not the Published Authors page. Can I add myself, or just ask someone to do so?
posted by zompist at 11:15 PM on October 7, 2011
posted by zompist at 11:15 PM on October 7, 2011
Zompist, it's a wiki, by definition you can edit it. :)
posted by IndigoRain at 12:00 AM on October 8, 2011
posted by IndigoRain at 12:00 AM on October 8, 2011
Also, Hodgman's second book More Information than you require doesn't seem to be in therel.
http://www.areasofmyexpertise.com/?t=1
posted by msalt at 1:26 AM on October 8, 2011
http://www.areasofmyexpertise.com/?t=1
posted by msalt at 1:26 AM on October 8, 2011
I'm on the Mefite Library page. You can find my book "Why Not A Spider Monkey Jesus?" on Amazon or on my website, where you can read the first chapter for free. I also have a few short pieces up at Fictionaut, which you can also read for free. ("How much are these free pieces?" "They're FREE!")
posted by Fuzzy Monster at 8:15 AM on October 8, 2011
posted by Fuzzy Monster at 8:15 AM on October 8, 2011
And what do you know, Hodgman has a further (possibly final) book, titled That Is All.
posted by msalt at 1:53 PM on October 8, 2011
posted by msalt at 1:53 PM on October 8, 2011
I finally figured out how to edit the Wiki and have added myself. Now I'm really an author!
posted by katillathehun at 8:14 AM on October 9, 2011
posted by katillathehun at 8:14 AM on October 9, 2011
I will join the fiction ranks in February.
(Fun aside: Ask Metafilter assisted research for this book.)
posted by WPW at 10:10 AM on October 9, 2011 [1 favorite]
(Fun aside: Ask Metafilter assisted research for this book.)
posted by WPW at 10:10 AM on October 9, 2011 [1 favorite]
I'm in the published authors list, but not the Metafilter Library list. Hm. I'll have to brush up my dusty wiki-editing skills and fix that (although if anybody less rusty than me wants to swoop in and fix it for me, I certainly won't complain.)
Also, by the way, I've got a new book coming out in March. It's a satire of pregnancy and parenting books, called How Not To Kill Your Baby.
posted by yankeefog at 4:20 AM on October 12, 2011
Also, by the way, I've got a new book coming out in March. It's a satire of pregnancy and parenting books, called How Not To Kill Your Baby.
posted by yankeefog at 4:20 AM on October 12, 2011
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posted by zarq at 10:59 AM on October 7, 2011 [4 favorites]