Word Up!

An extremely entertaining book on writing and grammar, Word Up! will be released on National Tell a Story Day, April 27th.

If you’re like me (and I’m wagering you are), you’re a good writer who wants to follow the rules, but every now and again you run into language situations that make you question whether your recollection of the rules is serving you well. You’re not alone. Marcia Riefer Johnston’s collection, Word Up! How to Write Powerful Sentences and Paragraphs (And Everything You Build from Them), is loaded with practical advice for improving your writing by making good use of rules that matter. It does more than preach grammar. It helps you take command of words. Each well-written lesson provides you with easy-to-remember tips for improving your prose. Johnston reveals interesting and peculiar facts about our language, including some that will delight you. She uses well-placed humor to demystify some often confused rules. She helps you decide when to abide by rules and when to break them. She looks at both sides of certain rules that even experts disagree on. You may be surprised to find that some rules aren’t rules at all; they’re guidelines that were intended to steer us in the right direction but may have done the opposite. (Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler) Word Up! Packed with assumption-obliterating advice. Smart enough to appeal to grammar snobs. Friendly enough to appeal to those who think “grammar snobs are great big meanies.” Includes three indexes. Release: April 27, 2013—National Tell a Story Day Publisher: Northwest Brainstorms Publishing ISBN: 978-0-9858203-0-5 Price: $21.99 Pages: 244 Size: 6" x 9"

* WORD UP! How to Write Powerful Sentences and Paragraphs (And Everything You Build from Them) Marcia Riefer Johnston’s Biography A technical writer by trade, Marcia first studied under Raymond Carver and Tobias Wolff in the Syracuse University creative-writing program. She then taught technical writing at Cornell University. Marcia has written for many organizations, from the Fortune 500 to the just plain fortunate. Marcia’s Website: HowToWriteEverything.com