Bruce Blake continues to amaze me with his productivity. He’s launching a whole new epic fantasy series, the Small Gods. On October 1, the author of the Khirro’s Journey trilogy launches the first book in the series, When Shadows Fall. What’s it about? A hundred hundred seasons have turned since the Goddess banished the Small Gods […]
This edition of Written Words turns to Rachel Thompson, author of A Walk in the Snark, The Mancode: Exposed and most recently, Broken Pieces. She has graciously agreed to answer my pesky questions about writing style. How would you describe your own writing style? I’ve always been fascinated by writers who can express themselves with […]
I’m excited: pageviews on this blog broke through the 200,000 count a couple of days ago. In other words, people from literally around the world have clicked their way to at least open their browsers on Written Words over 200,000 times — most of them in the past three years. I like to think that […]
My last post focused on fiction: how to write a novel I would enjoy reading. There are far more people in the world who have to write other kinds of documents: letters, proposals, memos, instructions, report — which may or may not be fictitious. These writers also need some guidance, at least to judge from […]
I have reviewed a number of books by independent authors lately: Rachel Thompson, Bruce Blake, Seb Kirby, Doug Dorow, Chris Ward and of course RS Guthrie. All the reviews that I have published on this blog have been very positive: four or five stars out of five. I thought I would now explain how I […]
Deep in the shadows of Boston, Massachusetts, the Order—a secret brotherhood of New Breed warriors—is all that stands between a takeover by shifter supremacists.Diesel, the most charismatic of the brothers, exudes a love for life all the while carrying a terrible burden. A veteran of the Iraq War, he is haunted by the traumatic […]
An independent novel review I like it when an author sets his book in his home town, especially when it’s a place that doesn’t normally get mentioned in much mass media. The depth of knowledge comes through in the detail and that makes the story that much more realistic. For me, even nicer that it’s […]