The List of Writers

By popular request, here's the list of who's involved with Stories of Strength. If I left anyone out, please speak up!

Editors: MacAllister Stone; Janet Paszkowski; Julia Rosien; Amy Rea; Lisa Waterman Gray; Frank Baron; Denise DiFulco; B. J. Robinson, Ph.D; Sue Poremba; Gwen Moran; Jacqueline H. Kessler; and Jim Zola

Writers:

STRENGTH OF SPIRIT

• Let No Hands Be Idle Here By Orson Scott Card and Mark Mitchell
• The Shrine By Matthew James
• The Organ Man By Janet Ross-Pilla
• Trust in This Dark Night By Aviva Rifka Bhandari
• The Wonderful Transformation of the Library Troll By Amy Mullis
• The Smell of Lilacs By Catherine Lanser
• Roses Will Bloom By Connie Schlosberg
• Motherhood By Amey S Tippett
• Willow By Kimberly Ripley
• look beyond By Moira Richards
• The Art of Forgiving By Sarah Crabtree
• Mirror of Time and Uranus By David Lee Summers
• My Mother’s Table By Noreen Braman
• A Real, Super, Human By Jill Miller Zimon
• What is Strength? By Debbie Burton-Peddle
• Legacy: Thoughts on Courage and Inspiration By Patti Wigington
• The Truths about Rains and Floods By Raymond K. Wong
• Taking Back My Heart By Deborah Rose
• I Was In My Rose Garden By Janet Paszkowski
• Beachside Revelations By Shelly Wiseman Webb
• Of Buildings and Babies By Linley B. Marcum
• Just Believe By Kim Gogo-Melvin
• The Beauty Within By Erin D. Zapletal
• Finding Peace in Times of Chaos By Sheryl McCarty
• Just Some Old Man? By Michele Ivy Davis

PHYSICAL STRENGTH

• Just Keep Going By Wil Wheaton
• A Father’s Consolation By B. J. Bourg
• The Weld Maker By Jan P. Myskowski
• Merry Christmas. Panama, 1989 By Mark Pettus
• Gone Fishing By Diane Stilwell
• The Hurdle Jumper By Christine Krannich
• The Bracelet By Sarah Chauncey
• The Prize is the Journey By Kesi Augustine
• Running with the Wolf Pack By Roberta Beach Jacobson
• Stop, Thief! By Charmian Christie

STRENGTH OF FAITH

• One of Grandma’s Sweet Lessons By Barb Webb
• The Plate By Frank Baron
• Our Faces Are Not Our Own By Janet Ross-Pilla
• Nanna By Mary Broadbent
• Legless But “Undefeeted” By Claudia Ann Sodaro
• Walking By Faith By Brett James Sigler
• Aunt Carolyn’s Faith By Kimberly Gasuras-Lewis
• When Life Gives You Grapefruit By Cindy Appel
• God’s Solace By Suzan L. Wiener
• A Belated Christmas Present By Jenna Glatzer
• Prayer for Strength By Amy Brozio-Andrews
• Add Prayer in Times of Crisis By Mary Emma Allen
• A Walk in the Clouds By Julia Temlyn
• A Different Kind of Marathon By Jean Marie Wiesen

ROLE MODELS OF STRENGTH

• Peacekeeper’s Coffee By Doug Setter
• The Ace I Got Dealt By C.J. Piperly
• The 10 K Walk By Frank Baron
• Little Niño By Allison Cooke
• Perceiving the Possible By Ellen Lewis Lief
• Larger Arenas By John Vanek
• My Hero By Olinda Wheatley
• My Quiet Relationship with Dad By Meryl K. Evans
• The Plant By Ruth Cooke
• Tom By Kim Ramsey
• Where Have All the Heroes Gone? By Patti Wigington
• Looking Up to a Shortstop By Chris Manning

STRENGTH OF COMMUNITY

• What Really Matters By Julia Rosien
• The Power of One By VL Marshall
• Heart of the Mountain By Stephanie Cordray
• Canberra’s Bushfire - January 2003 By Gillian Polack
• Hope For A Safer Place By Shelagh Watkins
• The Little Angel By Carolee Eubanks
• Relief Effort Blossoms By Jamie Engle
• Blizzards and Friends By Ken Schneider

BORROWING STRENGTH

• Wet and Naked By Charmian Christie
• Merlin By Yvonne Oots
• What Remains By Audrey Glassman Vernick
• Condemned and Redeemed By Janine Peterson
• One Breath At A Time By Cynthia L. Kryder

STRENGTH OF LOVE

• Sixteen Times By Kathy Powers
• Best Step on the Rung By Kimberly Ripley
• After Dakota By Jennifer Lawler
• First Born By Kathryn Morrison
• A Journey Home By Harry E. Gilleland, Jr.
• Breastfeeding Boogie By Kelly Pollard
• Love Isn’t Blind By Vanessa J. Kyles
• It’s My Job, Sink or Swim By Kathryne Lee Tirrell
• What There is Left… By Lisa Voiles
• Rafael’s Gift By Esther Avila
• The Strength of Words By Robert Villanueva
• Adopting a New Tradition By Jeanie Kezo
• There is Strength in All of Us By Catherine A. Harris
• Comma Eyes By Sandra Coker
• A Coat of Paint By Maggie B Dickinson

THE STRENGTH TO START OVER

• Searching for Hope By Judith Alice
• Hummingbird Summer By Anne Culbreath Watkins
• ...from the ashes By Christa Kolster
• Living Strong By Sue Marquette Poremba
• Forget Me Not By Rose Thomason
• Addictions Conquered By Sharyn Bowman
• Night and Fog Action By Heide AW Kaminski
• Continuance By Michael Hawkins
• Perseverance By Joanne D. Kiggins
• Behind Closed Doors By Misti Sandefur
• Pine Scrapbook By Robin Bayne
• After Life By Carol Ann Lindsay
• February’s Ashes By Kira Connally

STRENGTH IN FICTION

• The Best Day By Orson Scott Card
• The Huckleberry Patch By Robin Lee Hatcher
• Atlas Slouched By Richard Cobbett
• No Way, Ebay By Alyson Mead
• The Sacrifice By Gabriele Campbell
• The Boy with the Golden Hands By Sharon Maas
• Waddling Free By Cynthia Balog
• Miss Lilia By Sharon Cullars
• The Old Man of Fundy By Adam Heskett
• Who Wants a Hero? By Jenny Schwartz
• The Light By Christine Norris
• The Final Blessing By Carol Hightshoe
• Breaking the Ice By C. Montgomery Stuart
• Tornado Luck By Andrea Allison
• Where the Shrewsbury meets the Atlantic By Sara Spock
• My Big Brother Ben By Robert Rohloff
• Redhill’s Ghosts By Robin Bridges

By my count, that's 119 pieces by 115 writers (4 writers have 2 stories in the book).

OneTeamOneDream said:

Yeah, mine is closing one of the chapters.....is that a good thing, or was it so bad that they hoped no one would get that far??.....just kidding!!

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LOL! I almost posted about my reasoning about the order, but decided against it because I figured I was likely to raise more writer-neurosis.

In short: You probably won't be able to crack my code.

Think of it this way: When a musician decides a set list, he wants to make sure there aren't a bunch of ballads in a row, or his best songs one right after another.

I did the same sort of thing with the order-- which, by the way, isn't final, but is close. I tried not to stick two stories with the same type of subject matter next to one another, I tried to spread out the humorous pieces, tried to make sure we didn't have two poems in a row, etc. And I wanted to make sure the first and last pieces in each section were particularly strong.

So, Chris, to pump up your ego, yes, that means I think it's a strong piece.

BJ Bourg said:

It's an honor to be a part of this worthwhile project. Jenna, you're the GREATEST! You definitely know how to make things happen.

bjb

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Aww, thanks, BJ! It's an honor for me, too.

I just took what proved to be a more emotional step than I expected... I passed the manuscript on to the next copy editor (Lisa Abbate).

I know that sounds silly, but the thing is, I've been assembling and editing this manuscript all along, and I knew that the second I turned it over to the next editor, I couldn't touch it again until she was done. (Otherwise, we'll have two different versions and have to figure out where the changes are in both of them.) So it was a bit like submitting one of my book manuscripts-- no more tinkering until the editor gets back to me. That's always hard! I always want to keep rereading it, keep stroking its little belly, keep pruning a word here and a word there.

But it frees me up a bit to take care of the next steps.

I'm waiting to hear more from the national Red Cross people. I have a bunch of questions for the Lulu people. We have a graphic designer ready to roll, but are still slightly in limbo on the image permission. (It appears it will be granted, but I need to wait until tomorrow for a definitive answer.) I need to study the formatting requirements and the royalty structure so I can finalize the price and understand how much we get to donate on each book (which differs based on whether the book is sold directly through Lulu, through Amazon, or through a bookstore). I have a couple of proposals to read through and comment on. I have to test out Richard's work on the SOS site. Etc.

I'm still missing bios from just a few people, so I need to go through my files and double-check to make sure I didn't accidentally skip someone's e-mail-- but if you know you never sent a bio, please send me one. (If you sent a bio to Mac, me, or your editor, don't worry about it. I'll let you know if I'm missing it.)

Regarding the names you see above: Not all of them are active on the forums. Almost all are subscribers to the AW newsletter, but not all here. And a few are here, but they're using pseudonyms, so they're incognito!

Thanks so much, ALL of you, for being such important parts of this project. I think we're gonna do a lot of good and have a lot of fun while we're at it!