Image source: writeshop.com I have been wrestling for years over how to organize my work-in-progress, Walking from the USSR. An almost casual comment from a friend over dinner presented a solution. Now I feel I can wrap this baby up! The book is the story of my father-in-law, Maurice, who served in the Red Army […]
What is style? Written Words continues to explore the issue of style among independent authors. This time, I’ve asked historical novelist Zoe Saadia to weigh in. Saadia is unique among writers of historical fiction. Her novels, like At Road’s End, The Warrior’s Way, The Highlander and her latest, Two Rivers, are set in pre-European contact […]
Today, I am proud to say that I take on the Presidency of BestSellingReads, a collective of “new fiction” authors. My thanks to Frederick Lee Brooke for being such an inspiring and capable President and blazing a path for me. BestSelling Reads is an organization of writers of fiction and non-fiction who know the value […]
I nearly missed this story last week: Kobo, the e-book reader manufacturer and publisher, went through an exercise of weeding out “offensive” books and removing them from its catalog. Of course, “offensive” means books about some forms of sex. Apparently, books that glorify stock market manipulation or various forms of fraud against the middle class, […]
An Unlikely Goddess launched October 14, 2013. From Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar, winner of the SheWrites New Novelist Award, 2011 …The Hindu goddess, Sita, is said to have been born from the Earth. King Janaka discovers the beautiful infant and in her beauty, believes in her divinity. He raises her as his own daughter…… A coming of age […]
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 […]
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 […]