Indie author book review of the Cassidy Jones Adventures series: Cassidy Jones and the Secret Formula and Cassidy Jones and Vulcan’s Gift. These are perfect novels for middle-grade girls or boys. While author Elise Stokes starts on some well-travelled roads — a teenage protagonist who gains super-powers from an accident in a lab — she actually shows more […]
Writing is less about putting words on a page or screen than it is about putting thoughts in order. Our job as writers, as professional communicators, is to clarify the world and ideas for our audience. That means illuminating—showing something that was hidden before—and simplifying—sorting out ideas, phenomena and events that are tangled and difficult […]
A couple of years ago, I participated in a Web and social media initiative called Six Sentence Sunday. The idea was to publish six consecutive sentences from a writing project—book, story, play, whatever—link it to the Six Sentence Sunday page and then, every Sunday, read the samples of other participants. Six Sentence Sunday has since […]
By Sigrun Buckley Sigrun Buckley has revealed the cover of her new memoir. I Once Had a Farm in Ireland tells the story of how a couple from Germany ended up on a farm in Ireland in the early 1990s, and all the work they had to do to transform themselves from professionals to farmers. […]
Businesswoman, author and blogger Rachel Abbott is my latest victim guest contributor. We all know how smart she is: she sold off her business and now lives in bucolic paradise in central Italy. The author of Only the Innocent, which has held #1 spot on Amazon for a well-deserved long time, Rachel has generously agreed […]
David C. Cassidy is a writer, photographer and graphic artist who is earning a reputation as one of the best book cover designers today, and as an author of gripping horror/fantasy books, with The Dark and Velvet Rain. I asked him to tell Written Words readers about how he creates such arresting, beautiful and evocative […]
Last week was the official launch of the new look for The Written Word Communications Company. The new website is based on WordPress and integrates the Written Words blog with the home page of the website and new pages that describe the various services I offer companies—writing, editing, publishing and training—plus samples of the work […]