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Guest blogger: Martin Crosbie, author of My Temporary Life
This guest post from Martin Crosbie originally ran on my Blogger blog in 2012, and it’s well worth reading again. Martin’s excellent self-published book, My Temporary Life, achieved a great deal of attention in the major media for hitting number 1 on Amazon. Here, Martin explains how he did it. This topic became the basis of […]
Do you like the new look?
Have you noticed the new functionality? Written Words has moved from the worthy Blogger platform to WordPress. Along with that, as you can see, it sports a new, cleaner look and new functionality. I like the white space, the categories for blog posts and the ability to search through the blog. I hope you do, […]
A lovely award
Every time this blog gets one of these spontaneous, friendly “awards,” I’m surprised and delighted. It still makes me happy not only that people read Written Words, but like it enough to give it some public recognition. Thank you, Rosalind Burgess and Patricia Obermeier Neurman of the Roz and Patty Write blog for nominating Written […]
Progress report: The state of the blog — and a thank-you
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 […]
The Big Lie from a corporate publishing shill
Have you ever noticed how people talk faster and louder when they have to defend a position they know is wrong? Like the Toronto cops defending the officer who shot Sammy Yatim nine times? A member of the commercial publishing industry is doing the same thing in blog form with statements like this: There are […]
All about Tween literature: EMBLAZON launches
Emblazon is a new group of authors who write for readers aged 11 to 14 has just launched a new blog dedicated to the art and science of writing for this special audience. “Some call them upper middle grade; others call them low young adult. They’re somewhere in the middle and can lean either way. […]