2015

Happy New Year!

2015 was a great year for The Written Word Communications Company. Two books edited—Call me Razor by Vic Tomlinson and Dragon by Louise Sorensen (coming) Two novellas published—Torn Roots and Jet – Stealth One longish short story published—Palm Trees & Snowflakes Another novel completed and ready for publication in 2016—Under the Nazi Heel, the follow-up to […]

New #LeiCrimeKW title for Christmas: Esther's Gift

By Bette Lee Crosby A new crop of Lei Crime Kindle World (#LeiCrimeKW) novellas and stories hit the Amazon e-shelves last week. Here’s a sample of one by bestselling author Bette Lee Crosby. The dream wakes her two hours before dawn. She feels the chill of an evil wind whistle through the open window and […]

Dark Clouds story cover

I have updated Dark Clouds, Part 1: The Mandrake Ruse, complete with a new cover. I’m excited about it. I have to thank Quebec graphic designer Daniel Dufour for invaluable advice on typography and colours. The original cover wasn’t bad. I took the photograph in Venice, and while it’s a good image of dark clouds, when […]

New #LeiCrimeKW titles for the season: Christmas Makes It Chaos

By Julie C. Gilbert A new crop of Lei Crime Kindle World (#LeiCrimeKW) novellas and stories hit the Amazon e-shelves last week. Here’s a sample of one by bestselling author Julie C. Gilbert. A premonition made her pause. Something wasn’t right. Every light in the room had been turned on, and her clothes had been […]

Happy Yule from the Lei Crime World

It’s launch day for the latest flight of Lei Crime Kindle World stories and novellas—including one from me. What’s coming This launch includes eight brand new stories and novellas in the universe created by Toby Neal, all about police detective and sometime Lei Texeira, and her lovers, partners, family, enemies and friends. Christmas Makes it […]

Cover reveal! Palm Trees & Snowflakes—a new Lei Crime mystery

I did it! I wrote a 10,000-word mystery story for the Lei Crime Kindle World in four days at the beginning of December. Since then, I’ve re-written it, shaved it down by 1,000 words, gotten it reviewed, changed it again, got it edited and got a fantastic cover image by the matchless David C. Cassidy. […]