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 […]
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 […]
Entering a new kind of world I thoroughly enjoyed reading The Austin Job by David Mark Brown. As soon as I started it, I realized that I should have read its predecessor,Fistful of Reefer, which creates and introduces the new sub-sub-genre of science fiction, reefer punk. According to the author’s introduction to The Austin Job, […]
Castles: A Fictional Memoir of a Girl with Scissors by Benjamin X. Wretlind My rating: 5 of 5 stars Often, you can tell on the first page whether a writer knows what he or she is doing. There’s a flow, a grace to the way these writers construct their sentences that makes reading a joy. […]
Ukrainian Christmas Eve Paska and candle. January 6, as everyone knows, is “Ukrainian Christmas Eve.” Actually, it’s Christmas Eve according to the old Julian calendar. So my Ukrainian Christmas present to readers, and to Ukrainians around the world, is an excerpt from my upcoming book, still unnamed, the sequel to Army of Worn Soles. […]
The audience for this blog has reached another record high point: in November 2014, more than 20,000 people viewed a page. Three times during the month, daily numbers reached or exceeded 1,000, and the all-time number is approaching 400,000. In fact, I fully expect to reach that by next week. If things keep going the […]