Publishing

Amnesia by D.G. Torrens

Amnesia, by bestseller D.G. Torrens Amnesia, a romantic suspense novel by the acclaimed, bestselling author D.G. Torrens, is now out! This is the latest editing project, edited by Scott Bury, to be published. What’s it about? Cassie is suffering from trauma-induced amnesia. Weekly visits to her psychologist are proving challenging until fragments from the night […]

The Children of the Seventh Son cover

It’s done! The Children of the Seventh Son is ready to release. The second book in the Dark Age trilogy has been fully edited, proofread, and revised several times by yours truly in between every stage. And now it has a cover, with an original image painted by artist Marc Laisne of Montpelier, France and Ottawa, Canada. The cover […]

“This podcast is guaranteed”

My email inbox is getting crowded with a lot of surefire offers lately. So many people offer online courses to help me learn marketing so I can sell more books. Here are some examples from my inbox. Nick Stephenson’s Your First 10,000 Readers Bryan Cohen Selling for Authors Joanna Penn, the Creative Penn—three courses, including […]

A look back at a tough year

To many, 2016 has been a horrible year. The war in Syria, the loss of refugees from that conflict and others, the record number of celebrity passings, record homicide numbers in my home town, Brexit, the election of Donald Trump to the U.S. Presidency … I won’t go on. It’s too painful. For me, it’s […]

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 […]

A second book launch in a week: Torn Roots enters the Lei Crime Kindle World

It’s here—launch day for my fifth book-length fiction, Torn Roots. Torn Roots joins the Lei Crime Kindle World, a set of short stories, novelettes and novellas based on characters, settings and situations created by bestselling author Toby Neal in her Lei Crime series. The series is about Hawaiian police detective and sometimes FBI agent Leilani […]