What do we do at the Written Word? Among other things, edit manuscripts to turn them into great books! Here’s an excerpt of another I edited Written by Samuel W. Gailey Ending the pain should’ve been easy, but it wasn’t. She should’ve driven faster but didn’t. At the last moment, Tess hit the brakes instead […]
Today, November 11, 2014, is Remembrance Day in Canada, Veterans’ Day in the US, Armistice Day in the UK. It’s a day recognized under many names in countries around the world, marking the end of the First World War, called the “defining calamity of the 20th century.” That calamity, which took millions of lives and […]
Unlike most independent authors, Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar, known on Twitter as @Moha_Doha, eschews genre writing. Her novels include elements of romance, but they do not follow the conventional girl-meets-boy story. An Unlikely Goddess is mainstream literature, and you can even look at it as part of the stream of books about the Indian immigrant experience, along […]
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. […]
Creative Commons License. Some rights reserved by Reinis Ivanovs One Shade of Red is now in front of its editor! I have promised to keep you faithful readers apprised of my progress in publishing my second novel. So there it is: now with editor Gary Henry, author of American Goddesses and What Happened to Jory, member […]
By Benjamin X. Wretlind 5 stars Benjamin X. Wretlind’s beautiful, haunting and, to a writer, mind-blowing Sketches from the Spanish Mustang is literature of the highest kind.Sketches from the Spanish Mustang is a novel in disguise as a cycle of stories set in the town of Cripple Creek, Colorado, where the Spanish Mustang is one […]