Now available Amy Shannon's Balls-Town
Now available Amy Shannon's Balls-Town
Amy Shannon talks about Balls-Town and the inspiration for the book, and reads an excerpt
The Forsaken was the inspiration for writing Balls-Town, as I did research for this book, which gave me more information than I needed, so I decided to finish The Forsaken, and continue with the research. In the end, Balls-Town emerged. (I still have more data and research, so I am working on biographical sketches of persons from Balls-Town.
About The Forsaken
Ballston Spa is a small village in the middle of Saratoga County, and it is rich in history, including its ghost stories. Dorothy Wellington has a gift, a gift that sometimes she believes is a curse. She can hear dead people. They talk to her and she talks back to them. Her family has a very long, generational home that is placed in the Ballston Spa Village Cemetery. Her 103-year-old father summons her back home, a trip she dreads, but then feels at home once she walks up those steps again. Her father needs a favor, more than one.
First and foremost, help her newfound great-nephew Samuel with his gifts, and solve a two hundred-year-old missing persons case. Are these gifts and her knowledge as a historian, a foremost in her field, enough to figure out what happened to a young mother and her four-year-old daughter?
United States Readers:
If you have purchased a copy of the book in paperback, Balls-Town: A Community of History, Friends, Neighbors, and Lingering Spirits and would like the book signed, and live in the United States, you can mail the book to me directly, and I will sign it, and send it back. I just ask that you pay shipping and handling fees.
To do this, you can either go to the USPS website and purchase a mailing label for a Large Priority Mail Flat Rate Envelope. If you wish to just send a money order or check, or you can PayPal it to me (let me know if this is what you are going to do), the price is $10.20 (US).
Another option is to request that I send you an official sticker with my signature on it (this option does NOT require a postage fee), and mail it to you and you can stick it on the inside title page of the book. (This option is also available for persons outside the United States).
Before using any of these options, you must email me at writeramyshannon@gmail.com and let me know what option you are going to do, so I can give you the mailing address, or I can get yours (if you wish just to have the official sticker with my signature on it).
https://www.amazon.com/Balls-Town-Community-History-Neighbors-Lingering/dp/B0CQYC7XL5
If you have bought the digital book, the signature is already on it.
Outside of the United States Readers
Send a request that I mail you an official sticker with my signature on it (this option does NOT require a postage fee), and mail it to you and you can stick it on the inside title page of the book.
You can purchase an autographed copy of Balls-Town and/or The Forsaken on eBay at https://www.ebay.com/usr/niftynexts
April 20, 2024 @ 1:30 PM
Ballston Spa NY
Attendees of the MEET THE AUTHOR event should bring their purchased copy of the Book.
There is an option to buy the book at the event, but there is a limited number of books on hand. (So, it would be First come/First Serve).
Payments accepted would be done via PayPal, Venmo, or Cash App. (There will be a card that has the QR codes that can be scanned to make a payment.)
Attendees can also bring any of Amy Shannon's paperback books to have them signed as well.
Ballston Spa is currently the border of two towns, the town of Ballston and the town of Milton. It is an area within Saratoga County, in upstate NY. Ballston Spa has its village, and outskirts that outline Ballston and borders Saratoga Springs.
It used to be distinguished by being called Ballston Centre. Before its incorporation in 1807, Ballston Spa was referred to as Ballston, (shortened from Ball’s Town), Ballston Springs, Bath, Springs, never really called Ballston Spa. Ballston Spa has its village, but its town and history have so many stories on how it got started, and when people realized how special this area is and was. Small hamlets or towns may have been forgotten, or the only thing that remains is a simple sign, such as Factory Village. Other hamlets are now just street names, such as the East Line hamlet. Bloodville and Craneville is long gone, and today, many would be surprised to know the infamy of the Old Iron Springs, and its healing mineral waters. Those waters still run, but not as vast as they did, and some forgot about them, and head north to Saratoga Springs, where they can enjoy, if they have a taste for it, the mineral water that pours from various fountains and salt banks.
With such lush and savage history, the Towns of Milton and Ballston were one, Balls-Town. The settlers, pioneers may still be recognized for the start of the towns, but there is more to the story. People, not just prominent, and the writings of people, long past, where their work may be long forgotten. It is a shame that some are forgotten, so with this being a history of Balls-Town, the incorporation of the Village of Ballston Spa, it is also an homage to those who wrote about these precious lands of the towns. Some stories, poems, historical writings about these hometowns, may have been once lost, but in this book, some of them are being revived.
I'm Amy Shannon, and this is my hometown, and its community of history, lingering spirits, and neighbors.
The books listed below are viewable on a Google Drive, if you click on the image. If you wish to have a copy of the digital book, email me at writeramyshannon@gmail.com and add the title of the book to the subject line.
A Poem on the Mineral Springs of Ballston and Saratoga, with notes illustrating the History of the Springs and Adjacent Country. Published by Reuben Sears, Printed by J. Comstock, Ballston Spa, NY. 1819
An Analysis of the Mineral Waters of Saratoga and Ballston, with practical remarks on their medical properties by Dr. John H. Steel, 1840.
Our County and its People. A descriptive and biographical record of Saratoga County NY. Prepared and published by The Saratogian, and printed by The Boston History Company. 1899.
A pedestrian Tour of Two Thousand Three Hundred Miles in North America. To the Lakes, -The Canadas, and The New-England States Performed in the autumn of 1821. Embellished with Views. By P. Stansbury . New York. Published and Sold by J. D Myers and W. Smith. No. 59 Fulton Street. 1822
A Plain account of the ordinance of Baptism; in which all the texts in the New Testament relating to it are proved and the holy Doctrine concerning dram from them alone by William Foot
Travels through the United States of America, in the years 1807, and 1809, 1810, & 1811; including an account of passages betwixt America and Britain, and travels through various parts of Britain, Ireland, & Canada. With corrections and improvements till 1815. Illustrated by coloured maps and plans by J. Melish. 1818.
Centennial History of the Village of Ballston Spa, including the town of Ballston and Milton- A souvenir of the Centennial Celebration, held June 22-25, 1907. by Edward F. Grose, and John Booth
The Ledger's Book Cover
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Amy has written everything from a workbook for writers, poetry, short stories, dramatic fiction novels, and recently released her nonfiction historical novel about her home town.