Let's Build a Web Page

[rolanni]

The Waterboro Public Library, bless their hearts, maintains an Index of Maine Writers. It's a good resource, and I appreciate the fact that they do not fall into the peculiar mindset of other would-be compilers of Maine Writers, who seem to think that only books set in Maine qualify the author to be a Maine writer. Or yet the ...unsupportable reasoning undergirding the list of Maine Writers out of...UMF, was it? Where the maintainer informed me that I was not a Maine writer because I sold to publishers based in New York, and I could live in Unity until I turned blue in the face, but that would still not make me a Maine writer. Um...what?

All that aside, what I want is a list of Maine Fiction Writers. In order to qualify for a place on the listing, a writer would have to (1) live in Maine (2) have written and seen published a novel or short story. I don't care what genre it's in. I don't care where your publisher lives. No, poetry doesn't count. Poetry isn't fiction; it's poetry. No, self-pubbed doesn't count. Yep, that's arbitrary and elitist, thank you for noticing.

What I'm thinking of is:

Name
Title(s)
Publisher(s)
Genre(s)
Official Webpage
Blog if any

All of the above information to be provided by the author, because, hey, *I* don't have time to do this.

Anybody out there game to build something like this, or at least tell me why it's a Terrible Idea?

Comments

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Listing and detail look pretty much right -- except for the late lamented PENDRAGON AUTUMN, which died four chapters in, due to lack of public interest in the series. And GHOST POINT, while completed and accurately summarized, will probably never see print.