2013

Independent novel review: Dark Prairies by RS Guthrie

Dark Prairies, Guthrie’s third novel is a departure from the pattern he established in Black Beast and LOST. They’re horror/supernatural tales crossed with cop mystery-thrillers. Dark Prairies is a mystery about a cop, but the only category that it’s fair to put this into would have to be “literary fiction.” Guthrie calls this book his […]

This edition of Written Words is something I’ve never done before: I’m re-blogging a post by San Diego-based independent author Tameri Etherton. Tameri was witness to the new dramatic phenom, Accomplice. Tameri originally wrote this post on her own blog, A Cup of Tea and Sorcery, on May 17. The concept of Accomplice seems to […]

Sample Sunday: cleaning the pool in the hot sun

It’s the long weekend, the beginning of the summer season for many in the northern hemisphere. Some of us start to dream of the luxurious, lazy season ahead, lying by the pool … any pool … because most of us don’t have a pool … In reality, the weekend for most of us means cleaning […]

I was riding the bus yesterday morning, on the way to the day job. Sitting across from me was a woman reading on her iPad. Now, being occasionally enterprising, I reached into my briefcase for one of my bookmarks I printed as a promo for my first novel, The Bones of the Earth, with the […]

The Little Nani blog tour

Today, Written Words is happy to host a stop on the blog tour for the relaunch of The Funny Adventures of Little Nani by Cinta Garcia de la Rosa.Yesterday’s stop on the tour was Helle Soe Gade’s photo and writing blog, where Cinta explained how and why she’s relaunching her collection of charming, hilarious and […]

Sample Sunday: the drake

Image of Slavic god Perun fighting snake-god, Veles. Courtexy Dan Nye, UMichUkrainian blog. Once again, here is an action excerpt from The Bones of the Earth — because you love action!This is from Part 1: Initiation Rites (also available as a stand-alone novella from Amazon and Smashwords), where the hero, Javor, is pursuing his parents’ […]

She should have dialyzed last night, but she’d fallen asleep too soon, cocooned in fading dreams, down, and enchantment. The next round of belly noises came with spikes. “That shit was good. You ever think of going into politics?” “Only with a bulldozer.” Helen Hanson is an Amazon bestselling thriller author of 3 Lies and […]