Cliff Ball
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Cliff Ball is the author of more than twenty written works spanning Christian fiction, science fiction, alternate history, speculative fiction, and now literary satire. With a love for storytelling and a knack for weaving the unexpected, Cliff brings humor, heart, and imagination to every page. When not writing, he’s probably reorganizing his own library—just in case the books start talking.
Newest Series: The Library Saga. Available currently on Kindle Unlimited / Audible Plus, and paperback.
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The Guardians of Genre (The Library Saga, Book 1)
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Literary Satire, Fantasy Fiction
Welcome to the Everyday Town Library—where fiction leaps off the page, time rewinds through the card catalog, and the thesaurus might just eat you alive. In this ten-chapter genre-bending saga, Cliff Ball invites readers into a world where librarians battle curses, footnotes, and interdimensional chaos to protect the stories that shape reality. From haunted microfiche to banned book rebellions, The Library Saga: Guardians of Genre is a whimsical, heartfelt adventure for anyone who believes libraries are more than just quiet places—they’re gateways to infinite possibility. 
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The Plot Thickens (The Library Saga, Book 2)
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Literary Satire, Fantasy Fiction
The margins are stirring. The genres are glitching. And the footnotes are starting to fight back. Bonnie thought she’d redirected a library page. Instead, she created a genre virus with editorial flair and a vendetta against exposition. Now the Redactor is rewriting reality—one trope at a time. Romance becomes courtroom drama. Cookbooks narrate in noir. And the Mystery Section won’t stop rhyming. As the Library fractures under narrative sabotage, Dewey the cat patrols the chaos, Nora Clue adjusts to her legally distinct identity, and Alexandria faces a mystery that points to her as the culprit. Meanwhile, overdue slips fall like snow, each stamped with a single word: Remember. To stop the rewrite, the Canon must venture into the Forgotten Wing, confront their own narrative sins, and read between the lines—before the Redactor edits them out entirely. 
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The Algorithmic Draft (The Library Saga, Book 3)
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Literary Satire, Fantasy Fiction
Every story has a beginning…but what if the beginning was the flaw? When the Library fractures under the weight of algorithmic forces, the companions are thrust into a gauntlet of corrupted genres—sitcoms, fairy tales, mysteries, pulp war novels, and even the library’s own foundations. Each shard hunt becomes a parody of pop culture, but also a mirror of the heroes themselves: the Princess trapped in glass crowns, the Marine saluted by mannequins, the Detective’s notebook writing without her, the Sitcom Dad haunted by laugh tracks. As the Arcane Archivist’s echo grows stronger, the group realizes the shards aren’t just fragments of story—they’re pieces of the library’s origin. The final keystone lies in the Founder’s Wing, where the library began on a fault line of narrative convergence. To save what remains, they must tear out the very heart of the library, knowing the victory may destroy it. 
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The Unwritten Fallout (The Library Saga, Book 4)
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Literary Satire, Fantasy Fiction
A genre-bending ensemble novel that bridges the collapse of canon with the rise of chaos. It sets the stage for the character spotlight novellas to come — where myth, bureaucracy, and metafiction collide. While the library's stories are breaking loose, a genre corruption spills into the town, and reality begins to rewrite itself. Council hearings glitch into game shows. Newsrooms dissolve into narrative loops. And the Library's surviving staff—Alexandria, Bonnie, Dewey, and a cast of reshelved fragments—must navigate a world where every headline is suspect and every character arc is up for grabs. 
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