I received a box of book proofs today.  I love holding my books in my own two hands!

I also wrote and uploaded two new books today.  They're short books, but I'm really okay with short books.  Meeting with Wolves is a fictionalized account of my real life encounter with two amazing wolves at a wolf preserve.  The Wrong Race is a barely fictionalized account of my personal experiences with race and with racial violence.

More books will be coming soon.

I got an Author Page on Amazon, and it asks me to post a blog link, so it seems to be time to start a blog.

I have been working hard the past year to publish a lot of books on various topics.  Originally, I published several genealogy books using Word Clay, but Word Clay went out of business in December, 2012, so I had to find a new publishing platform.  I re-published my existing titles on Create Space, and they listed my books on Amazon.  Suddenly, I was a published author with books where people could find them and order them.

I transcribed Great-Grandpa "Gramp" Townsend's genealogy notebook and published it as The Red Notebook because his original, hand-written notebook has a red cover.  Later, I published a second edition of The Red Notebook that displays digital scans of the original notebook pages side-by-side with the transcriptions.  A similar thing happened with a box of antique legal documents.  I transcribed the documents, put them in chronological order, and published them as Property Deeds and other Legal Documents of the Fletcher and Townsend Families.  About the same time I published the second edition of The Red Notebook, I also published a second edition of Property Deeds and other Legal Documents of the Fletcher and Townsend Families that has digital scans of the original documents side-by-side with the transcriptions.

I transcribed Grandma Fletcher's unfinished autobiography.  I finished it by adding the material she had left in the same folder, and added a few of her stories and photos that she had left out.  I published it as Zoa Has Her Way, under Grandma Fletcher's name: Zoa Townsend Fletcher.  I listed myself as the editor. 

I had the publishing bug by this point.  I published a book of my poetry, and a 4-volume book of my art, in color.  I published a volume of my high school prose writings, then published a complete, chronological volume of my undergraduate college papers as soon as I graduated in April, 2013. 

I started fictionalizing family stories and publishing them as short books, most of them intended for 5th and 6th grade readers.  I have over 130 of these stories set up for myself as writing prompts, so there will be lots more short stories over time. 

This week, I formatted and published over a dozen of my best college papers as small, individual books.  This has been a lot of fun, and has made me more aware of how broad the range of my writing topics has been in recent years.

Most of my books are also available for Kindle, since I had the opportunity to do that.

This is just a beginning.  A complete list of my available books is on my Amazon Author page.  In addition to the titles listed under Debbie Barry, please look for a few books published by me under Deborah K. Barry, Deborah Katharine Fletcher Barry, and the one under Zoa Townsend Fletcher, as they do not appear on my Author page.

I will post here as I publish more books.

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