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B Surnames of Authors on Twitter

Published Authors of Fiction on Twitter


Surnames beginning with B.


From Elizabeth Baines, author of The Birth Place, to Augusten Burroughs, author of Running with Scissors...

 

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@elizabethbaines
Elizabeth Baines - General
@PhilippaJane
Phillippa Ballentine - Fantasy
@anyabast
Anya Bast - Fantasy/Romance
@arjunbasu
Arjun Basu - General/Short Stories
@matociquala
Elizabeth Bear - Fantasy
@rathacat
Clare Bell - Children's/Young Adult Fantasy
@amber_benson
Amber Benson - Science Fiction/Fantasy
@ShaneBerryhill
Shane Berryhill - Young Adult /Science Fiction
@jennablack
Jenna Black - Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy
@Alessia_Brio
Alessia Brio - Erotica
@susanwrites
Susan Taylor Brown - Children's
@tobiasbuckell
Tobias Buckell - Science Fiction
@buckmasterflash
Heath L. Buckmaster - General
@augusten
Augusten Burroughs - Memoir/Humor
Note: This author writes non-fiction,
but I thought he deserved to be on the list.

Elizabeth Baines 

@ElizabethBaines

From http://keeperofthesnails.blogspot.com/

Elizabeth Baines is a writer of prose fiction and prize-winning plays for radio and stage. Her short story collection, Balancing on the Edge of the World, was published by Salt in 2007 and was long-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Award for the Short Story 2008. Her novel, Too Many Magpies, will come from Salt in late 2009. Elizabeth was born in South Wales and now lives in Manchester. She has been a teacher and is also an occasional actor.

Philippa Ballantine 

@phillippajane

From pjballentine.com

Born in Wellington, New Zealand, I always had my head in a book, influenced no doubt by my father who thought Lord of the Rings was suitable bedtime reading for an eight year old.

One of my old schoolfriends remembers me trailing about with an green hardbacked journal which I was busy scratching my first 'novel' into. I had run out of stories to read, and found great enjoyment in writing my own. These early scribblings might not be publishable, and cause plenty of amusement now, but they were the stirrings of a need to express myself. But fantasy writing was not highly regarded in literary circles. My 'normal' writings earned me praise and a spot in the school magazine, but what I yearned for was magic. My writing spluttered out.

I studied English Literature and Politics at Victoria University, and after graduation found myself in the world of libraries. Then one day, after one of those painful life altering moments, I picked up the pen again, this time determined to enjoy writing for its sake, and not to worry if it bought me acclaim or not. Basically I had learned not to care about the goal- just to enjoy writing itself. I haven't stopped since. Oddly I never considered a career with books, even though they surrounded me from the beginning. It feels like I have found my place.

So now writing takes up large portions of my time, and I squeeze in other activities, like gardening, needlework, collecting dragons and ceramics, DIY, and reading (of course). I'm particularly fascinated by renaissance and medieval history in Europe, and the history of my own country New Zealand. For a few years I was the New Zealand history editor at Suite101.

 

Books by Philippa Ballantine

Chasing the Bard
Chasing the Bard
Digital Magic
Digital Magic

Anya Bast 

@anyabast

Anya Bast was born and raised in Minnesota. While in graduate school she sold her first book and decided to abandon her career in psychology and write full time. She is the author of over twenty works of fiction, including the Elemental Witches series as well as the standalone title, The Chosen Sin.

Arjun Basu 

@arjunbasu

From www.dcbooks.ca

Arjun Basu was born and bred in Montreal. He was editor in chief of enRoute between 2001 and 2007. He continues to live in Montreal, with his wife and son, and his life is as squishy as anyone else's.

 

Books by Arjun Basu

Squishy (Punchy Prose)
Squishy (Punchy Prose)

Elizabeth Bear 

@matociquala

Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky (born September 22, 1971) is an American author. Writing under the name Elizabeth Bear, she works primarily in the genre of speculative fiction, and was a winner of the 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Short Story for "Tideline," and the 2009 Hugo Award for her novelette "Shoggoths in Bloom."Twitter.com

A native of Hartford, Connecticut, her curriculum vitae includes working as a "media industry professional," a stablehand, a fluff-page reporter, a maintainer of Microbiology procedure manuals for a 1,000-bed inner-city hospital, a typesetter and layout editor, a traffic manager for an import-export business, Emmanuel Labour, and "the girl who makes the donuts at The Whole Donut at three A.M."

Until recently, she lived in Las Vegas, Nevada which served as the setting for the short stories One-Eyed Jack and the Suicide King, Follow Me Light, and This Tragic Glass, but she returned to Connecticut in January 2006.

Her first novel Hammered was published in January 2005 and was followed by Scardown in July and Worldwired in November of the same year. The trilogy features Canadian Master Warrant Officer Jenny Casey, who is also the main character in the short story Gone to Flowers. Hammered won the Locus Award for Best First Novel in 2006.

The Chains That You Refuse, a collection of her short fiction, was published May 2006 by Night Shade Books. Blood and Iron, the first book in the fantasy series entitled "The Promethean Age", debuted June 27th 2006. She is also a coauthor of the ongoing Shadow Unit website/pseudo-TV series.

In 2008, she donated her archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University.Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) Collection, Northern Illinois University

She is an instructor at the Viable Paradise writer's workshop and has taught at Clarion West Writers Workshop.

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Clare Bell 

@rathacat

Clare Bell (born 1952) is an author in the U.S. best known for her Ratha series of young adult fantasy novels about prehistoric big cats. These books, also called the Named series, are about intelligent self-aware large cats who have puma, cheetah and lion characteristics, and are based on fossil creatures who are ancestors of the saber-tooth cat.

The first book in the series, Rathas Creature appeared in 1983. The flap copy on the paperback re-issue of Clan Ground (the second book in the series which appeared in 1984) states that Bell:

:is a scientist, engineer, and author whose work has taken her to Norway to build electric cars, to Tahiti for research, to Marine World/Africa USA to meet a cheetah and into the depths of prehistory to develop the Ratha series...The author blends science and fantastic projection in her depiction of the Named ?- cheetah-like cats with an organized society.

Readers who followed Erin Hunters Warriors series about feral cats have gone on to read the Ratha series.

Bell's love for big cats is also expressed in Tomorrows Sphinx (about cheetahs in past and future Egypt) and The Jaguar Princess (a werecat (jaguar) woman in Aztec Mexico). Bell is also fascinated with flight, writing People of the Sky about Pueblo Indians who migrate from Earth to another planet and learn to ride winged aliens. Bells short stories have appeared in the Witch World and CatFantastic (cats and magic) anthologies, both edited by science fiction and fantasy writer, Andre Norton.

Recently Bell composed Rathas Island, an experimental novelette written specifically for the Twitter microblogging service, which intentionally limits posts to 140 characters or less so that they can be read on cellphones and other portable wireless devices. Rathas Island is an early entry into the area of Y/A Twitter fiction and has been well received. It is similar to the phenomenon of cellphone novels which are popular in Japan . The piece ran on Twitter beginning on March 14, 2009 and ending on May 9, with blocks of 5-10 Tweets, appearing twice daily during that time. Ratha's Island also explored the possibilities of alternative evolution in hexapodal (six-legged) as opposed to quadrepedal (four-legged) prehistoric mammals that evolved on an isolated island. Read it online at online at http://forum.rathascourage.com/index.php?showtopic=156

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Clare Bell on Squidoo

featured lens Ratha - look through the eyes of a prehistoric big cat

Look through the eyes of a prehistoric big cat as she prowls the trails of her life. What if the first creatures to gain human-level conscious intelligence were not human but feline? Meet Ratha and her band of Named clan cats as they continue their...

Amber Benson 

@amber_benson

Amber Nicole Benson (born January 8, 1977) is an American actress, writer, film director, and film producer. She is best known for her role as Tara Maclay on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and directing, starring and producing her own films Chance, Lovers, Liars & Lunatics and the upcoming film Drones.

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Shane Berryhill 

From shaneberryhill.com

Faster than a not-so-speeding tortoise! More powerful than a five-year-old girl with the flu! Able to leap tall speed bumps in a single bound! Look, there at the computer! It's an illustrator! It's a writer! It's SHANE!

Shane signed with PMA Literary and Film Management, Inc in August 2004. By November of that same year, PMA had acquired a deal with Starscape Books / Tor for The Adventures of Chance Fortune series. Chance Fortune and The Outlaws was released in July 2006.

Shane lives with his wife Lesley in Chattanooga, Tennessee and continues to work on the next books in The Adventures of Chance Fortune series, along with several other novels.

Jenna Black 

@jennablack

Jennifer Bellak is an American author of paranormal romance novels and urban fantasy novels under the pen name Jenna Black. She published one novel under her married name, Jennifer Barlow and at least two short stories under her maiden name.
Jenna Black is your typical writer. Which means she's an "experience junkie." She got her BA in physical anthropology and French from Duke University.

Alessia Brio 

@Alessia_Brio

From amazon.com

Alessia Brio is a sassy tart from Pittsburgh who burst (or tip-toed, depending on who you ask) onto the erotic romance scene in the latter half of 2005 with two eBook publications from Phaze. Until that time, she'd been giving her stuff away on Literotica. Now, she gratefully accepts money for it.

Alessia writes erotic romance, erotica, and poetry both independently and collaboratively (with Will Belegon). She received nominations as Literotica's Most Influential Poet of 2004 and Most Influential Writer of 2005 & 2006 under the oh-so-humble pseudonym "impressive" (affectionately shortened to "Imp").

As a participant in the philanthropic publishing venture Coming Together (www.EroticAnthology.com), Alessia has helped to raise money for organizations that protect our online freedoms of expression.

When she's not writing, editing, designing covers, or researching, Ms. Brio is performing her domestic duties as a work-from-home mom, kicking a** (or kissing it) as a civil rights advocate/activist, or wasting time on the Internet. Alessia lives in the mountains near Pittsburgh where she masquerades as a soccer mom.

 

Alessia Brio on Squidoo

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Susan Taylor Brown  

@susanwrites

From www.susanwrites.livejournal.com

I am the author of books for children, including the middle grade verse novel HUGGING THE ROCK, OLIVER'S MUST-DO LIST, CAN I PRAY WITH MY EYES OPEN?, the easy reader SMALLS SAILS TO FREEDOM, and the forthcoming easy reader ENRIQUE ESPARZA, BOY AT THE ALAMO.

I have served on the faculty for the Highlights Foundation Chautauqua Conference and was the Writer-in-Residence for San Jose Community School working with at-risk students. I'm also a former newspaper columnist for the New Orleans Times Picayune and past instructor for the Institute of Children's Literature.

 

Books by Susan Taylor Brown

Hugging the Rock (American Library Association Notable Book)
Hugging the Rock (America...

Tobias S. Buckell 

@tobiasbuckell

Tobias S. Buckell is a Caribbean-born speculative fiction writer who grew up in Grenada, the British Virgin Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. He has published stories in various magazines and anthologies. He is a Clarion graduate, Writers of The Future winner, and Campbell Award for Best New SF Writer Finalist.
Tobias currently lives in Ohio with his wife, Emily.

Heath L. Buckmaster 

@buckmasterflash

From heathbuckmaster.com

Heath L. Buckmaster is an author, Anglophile, technology geek, an avid blogger, a freelance photographer, and a lover of diet Pepsi vanilla. He currently works as an Information Technology Manager for a large manufacturing company.

He is the author of several books of poetry, short stories, and general fiction, including the Princess Carrina series for Young Readers. Although he has been writing for many years, his formal writing career began in 2006 while participating in the National Novel Writing Month competition.

Augusten Burroughs 

@augusten

From augusten.com

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Augusten Burroughs was born in 1965. He has no formal education beyond elementary school. A very successful advertising copywriter for over seventeen years, Burroughs was also an alcoholic who nearly drank himself to death in 1999. But spurned by a compulsion he did not understand, Burroughs began to write a novel. Never outlining or consciously structuring the book, Burroughs wrote, "as fast as I could type, to keep up." Seven days later, Augusten Burroughs had written his first book. He had also stopped drinking. The book was published one year layer. Burroughs remains sober to this day. And Sellevision stands as Burroughs's only published novel. It is currently in development as a feature film.

Augusten's second book was a memoir. It was also a publishing phenomenon that helped to ignite a kind of memoir fever in America and abroad. Running with Scissors was released in 2001 to virtually unanimous critical acclaim. The memoir would ultimately remain on the New York Times bestseller list for over four consecutive years, eight months of which were spent in the #1 position. The film, starring Annette Benning, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jill Clayburgh and Alec Baldwin was released in 2005.

He has since published four additional autobiographical volumes (Dry, Possible Side Effects, Magical Thinking and A Wolf at the Table), all of them bestsellers. Currently published in over thirty countries, Augusten's book readings have become massively popular events on numerous continents. He has also headlined for the most prestigious literary festivals in the world, most recently the 2008 Melbourne writer's Festival, where he and Germaine Greer delivered the keynote addresses on opening night. In addition, Burroughs speaks regularly at colleges and universities on topics ranging from alcoholism and sexual abuse to the art of authoring one's own life and humor as serious medicine.

Augusten Burroughs and his partner Dennis live with their two French Bulldogs, Bentley and The Cow in Western Massachusetts and New York City. Burroughs is working on his next book.

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