“I’ve Been Published!” A Brag Thread.

 

I know there are quite a few published authors here on Ricochet and I thought it would be fun to give people a chance to enlighten their fellow Ricochetti on articles they have published. So I am creating this as a brag thread where you can post book titles, links to Amazon author pages, or the names of scholarly articles you have had published.

Go ahead brag a little…

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  1. MLH Inactive
    MLH
    @MLH

    Oh. So, you haven’t been published? Tease.

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  2. Mike H Inactive
    Mike H
    @MikeH

    If you insist: Google Scholar

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  3. Seawriter Contributor
    Seawriter
    @Seawriter

    Oh, why not?

    Next out of the chute: May 23, 2017.

    And for those who followed my 90-Day Challenge last year, there is this one: Oct 24, 2017.

    Seawriter

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  4. Pilli Inactive
    Pilli
    @Pilli

    There’s “published” and then there’s “published”.

    As a technical writer for the past 17 years, I have “published” more operator’s manuals, usage guides, maintenance manuals, and illustrated parts catalogs than I can count.  But you won’t find them on Amazon.  That’s OK though.  They have kept the belt size from shrinking.

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  5. Jimmy Carter Member
    Jimmy Carter
    @JimmyCarter

    I wrote an article about favorite Halloween candies and it got published in My Family’s seasonal newsletter in Oct. ’97 (circulation of 36). It made front page! (below the fold, but still….) Thanks, Grandma!

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  6. Eustace C. Scrubb Member
    Eustace C. Scrubb
    @EustaceCScrubb

    Are books about the adventures of a Warthog Detective considered “scholarly”? Anyhoo, here is my Amazon author page.

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  7. Suspira Member
    Suspira
    @Suspira

    All of my work has been published in evanescent periodical form—newspapers and magazines—and my clips are ever more yellowed with age. But if I ever finish my cozy mystery, I’ll jump right on this thread.

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  8. Bartholomew Xerxes Ogilvie, Jr. Coolidge
    Bartholomew Xerxes Ogilvie, Jr.
    @BartholomewXerxesOgilvieJr

    Pilli (View Comment):
    There’s “published” and then there’s “published”.

    As a technical writer for the past 17 years, I have “published” more operator’s manuals, usage guides, maintenance manuals, and illustrated parts catalogs than I can count. But you won’t find them on Amazon. That’s OK though. They have kept the belt size from shrinking.

    Same here (except I’ve got 25 years of online help, programmer’s guides, and API documentation under my belt). Even if you could find any of it on Amazon, I wouldn’t recommend it for casual reading.

    I’m also going to assume that self-published Kindle books don’t count, because anybody can publish one of those…

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  9. Richard Easton Coolidge
    Richard Easton
    @RichardEaston

    I am the co-author of GPS Declassified: From Smart Bombs to Smartphones.  This is a narrative history of GPS written for a general audience.  Have written many articles on the subject.  Two of my more important speaking engagements were at the Explorers Club and Air Force Space Command.

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  10. Dean Murphy Member
    Dean Murphy
    @DeanMurphy

    I was editor of a local Mensa newsletter, eons ago, but that’s as close as I’ve been to publishing.

    It was fun, before PC’s.  I did paste up with actual paste and scraps of paper, and took the mess to the copier and then put labels on and mailed the stack.

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  11. Suspira Member
    Suspira
    @Suspira

    Bartholomew Xerxes Ogilvie, Jr. (View Comment):
    I’m also going to assume that self-published Kindle books don’t count, because anybody can publish one of those…

    Indie publishing counts! It isn’t about getting past a gatekeeper anymore. The point of publishing should be to connect with readers, not get an attaboy from an increasingly trend-following, blinkered, pinchpenny editor.

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  12. Aaron Miller Inactive
    Aaron Miller
    @AaronMiller

    Of the dozens of infamous Aaron Millers to be found online, at least two are me.

    Alas, I am not the “creative spelunker” of Googling yore. But I’m quite sure if I ever spelunked it would be a smash hit!

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  13. bridget Inactive
    bridget
    @bridget

    Define “scholarly article.”

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  14. Susan Quinn Contributor
    Susan Quinn
    @SusanQuinn

    I had a book called The Deepest Spiritual Life: The Art of Combining Personal Spiritual Practice and Religious Community, now out of print. And an essay first published in Women, Spirituality and Transformative Leadership, and reprinted in The Forgiveness Handbook.

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  15. Jeff Petraska Member
    Jeff Petraska
    @JeffPetraska

    I wrote for Fire & Movement, The General, and C3i magazines a couple of decades ago.  Does that count for anything?

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  16. Sheila Inactive
    Sheila
    @Sheila

    I think I remember submitting an essay when I was in elementary school that was highly praised & garnered an A from the teacher & a place on my mom’s frig.  Not published, but she did brag to the neighbor that I was going to be a famous writer when I grew up.  Think she may have been disappointed when I became an accountant.

    I do enjoy some of the great writers who post to Ricochet tho’ !

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  17. Kate Braestrup Member
    Kate Braestrup
    @GrannyDude

    BOOKS:

    Here If You Need Me

    Marriage and Other Acts of Charity

    Beginner’s Grace

    Anchor and Flares

    plus a whole bunch of seriously forgettable essays and articles…oh and I think one of my stories is included in the latest book of Moth stories.

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  18. Mark Ledbetter Inactive
    Mark Ledbetter
    @MattyVan

    “The Automobile Century: How Subsidized Roads Destroyed Twentieth Century America”. Libertarian Alliance in London, 1995.

    Several “scholarly” articles for Hosei University’s journal Gengo to Bunka (Language and Culture) on language issues. In English.

    Several books translated into Japanese on language issues.

    “A Classical Liberal Reconsideration of the Japanese Military” for Hosei University’s GIS Journal, 2016. In English.

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  19. profdlp Inactive
    profdlp
    @profdlp

    A number of tech reviews for a website which no longer exists covering hardware and software which also no longer exist.  Good for me – I’ve outlived them all.

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  20. Ryan M(cPherson) Inactive
    Ryan M(cPherson)
    @RyanM

    anonymous (View Comment):

    Bartholomew Xerxes Ogilvie, Jr. (View Comment):
    I’m also going to assume that self-published Kindle books don’t count, because anybody can publish one of those…

    I wouldn’t exclude them. I know four science fiction authors, all with books published by conventional publishers (one with thirty titles in his list), who are concentrating almost exclusively now on self-publishing at Amazon. Why? Because they make a lot more money that way, since the fraction received in royalties is much higher than with a regular publishing contract. Also, there’s no problem with their back-list going out of print, or long delays (often more than a year) from delivery of manuscript to publication.

    These are professionals, who hire copy-editors, cover artists, etc. to maintain the standard of the work they publish.

    Yes… But they were professional authors first, I imagine.

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  21. Ryan M(cPherson) Inactive
    Ryan M(cPherson)
    @RyanM

    Nothing to add.

    I wrote for the school newspapers in highschool and college.

    Closest thing to publishing has been getting promoted to the main feed by Ricochet editors.  I was certainly proud of myself the first time that happened.

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  22. cirby Inactive
    cirby
    @cirby

    So far, just the one board game.

    Pretty popular, though, with the 6th edition on the way.

     

     

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  23. Seawriter Contributor
    Seawriter
    @Seawriter

    cirby (View Comment):
    So far, just the one board game.

    Pretty popular, though, with the 6th edition on the way.

    You designed Car Wars? I used to play that back in the . . .  ah nevermind.

    Seawriter

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  24. Percival Thatcher
    Percival
    @Percival

    I’m just lucky that they haven’t disabled “Comment” for my account. Yet.

    EDIT: Durn autocorrect.

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  25. cirby Inactive
    cirby
    @cirby

    Seawriter (View Comment):

    cirby (View Comment):
    So far, just the one board game.

    Pretty popular, though, with the 6th edition on the way.

    You designed Car Wars? I used to play that back in the . . . ah nevermind.

    Seawriter

    Yup. Sure did. Co-authored with Steve Jackson a looong time ago.

    Sold a ridiculous number of copies over the years, too. Wish I’d made some money from it (I sold all of my rights to Steve -my idea, and a completely idiotic one).

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  26. Jerome Danner Inactive
    Jerome Danner
    @JeromeDanner

    MLH (View Comment):
    Oh. So, you haven’t been published? Tease.

    I hope to be published one day.  Maybe my son will give me enough time to write when he’s little older.  Haha!  For now, I am “published” on my own websites.

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  27. Seawriter Contributor
    Seawriter
    @Seawriter

    cirby (View Comment):
    Yup. Sure did. Co-authored with Steve Jackson a looong time ago.

    Sold a ridiculous number of copies over the years, too. Wish I’d made some money from it (I sold all of my rights to Steve -my idea, and a completely idiotic one).

    Most wargaming companies had the life span of a fruit fly. Taking the money and running was the percentage move. There is an old Russian saying: If I knew where I was going to fall down beforehand I’d lay down cushions.

    Seawriter

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  28. Kate Braestrup Member
    Kate Braestrup
    @GrannyDude

    Ryan M(cPherson) (View Comment):
    Nothing to add.

    Yet.

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  29. Mark Ledbetter Inactive
    Mark Ledbetter
    @MattyVan

    Suspira (View Comment):

    Indie publishing counts! It isn’t about getting past a gatekeeper anymore. The point of publishing should be to connect with readers, not get an attaboy from an increasingly trend-following, blinkered, pinchpenny editor.

    True enough. In that case, I know there are more at Ricochet who aren’t telling us. But I’ll tell. Here’s my second list, hopefully the better list, the self-published on Kindle list.

    America’s Forgotten History, Part One: Foundations

    America’s Forgotten History, Part Two: Rupture

    America’s Forgotten History, Part Three: A Progressive Empire

    (Parts 4, 5, and 6 eventually)

    Dancing On the Edge of the Widening Gyre: A History of Our Times

    Language: A Window On the Mind

    Language and Globalization: The History Of Us All

    Globocop: How America Sold Its Soul and Lost Its Way

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  30. 1967mustangman Inactive
    1967mustangman
    @1967mustangman

    Kate Braestrup (View Comment):

    Ryan M(cPherson) (View Comment):
    Nothing to add.

    Yet.

    Seconded.  I think you’ve got a small country lawyer version of All Creatures Great and Small in you.

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