For the past month, Samantha’s grandfather had sat on the front porch each day as the summer deepened into a…
The dead woman’s head rested on sheet music and a keyboard. Someone had arranged her long hair and swept it back from her face. The flower over her left ear… maybe was already there. The open eyes were sea green. When she was alive, they had depth and probably changed shade with shifting sunlight. Now, they were shallows, as still as shoal water over coastal muck. Her face… smooth, unlined. Not a hint of a life lived badly… but one that seemed hardly lived at all. “She wanted to sin, but she was too shy.”
“Just the facts, ma’am…” Los Angeles police detective Sergeant Joe Friday (actor Jack Webb) directed the witnesses he interviewed in the 50s/60s TV show Dragnet. They so often spun off into the realm of creative nonfiction, and he and his partner had no time for that. But those with compelling true stories should write their story in just that way and bring it to life for the reader.
NEW TITLE Press Release Read ‘About the Book’ From Dennis Lowery: My company, @Adducent, enjoyed working with Jack London on…
he stories are tales of what once was—what is now—and what might become ‘Good or Evil.’ The future is in flux and depends on people shaped by their past and the decisions they make in the present. Will Good triumph over Evil?
It was a difficult decision to become a writer and make the transition. It took more than a year to come together. But I wrote and published my first book when I was 48. Since 2008, I’ve ghostwritten over 35 nonfiction and fiction books, written dozens of novellas, short stories and vignettes, and hundreds of essays, posts, and articles. Since 2009 (through my company Adducent), I’ve helped publish 60+authors and 80 titles (as of this writing).
“Three fundamental reasons why every leader should consider writing and publishing at least one book.” — from the article linked…
I’ve been part of the process 84 times now… and it’s still a thrill to see how ideas, experiences, and…
“There had to be a better way to get authors a place at the table,” says Todd Shuster, co-CEO of…
I have written a lot of nonfiction and fiction since 2008. As of January 1, 2019, over two million words published (includes 30 books ghostwritten for clients: 12 nonfiction, 9 memoirs, and 9 fiction).