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Our wordsmith work covers the literary waterfront. As an independent publisher and full-service communication consulting firm, we are resourced to cover all aspects of the publication process (see our process overview depicted in “bubbles of activity” as Publication Bubbles). At the macro level, publication content needs to be created, edited, shaped, adorned, and produced, and our talent-sets will shepherd and advance projects in any and all phases of the process.

Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start.

Jo Linsdell

At a detailed level, see the table below for a listing of specific activities associated with the publication process that Wordsmith Associates undertakes. Of course, most projects involve only a subset of activities, and we are careful to match Wordsmith talents to the specific client needs. One of our important sources of value is to remove hurdles that stand in the way, and this is why we determine at the outset how we can best complement the author’s areas of skill and interest to get the work done.

At Wordsmith Associates, we are quality-committed, action-oriented, and results-driven.

Wordsmith Associates Service Matrix

Wordsmith Associates offers these itemized communication services – separately and in combination – to address the publication needs of individuals, small businesses, corporations & nonprofit organizations.

Please Contact Us to set up a call to discuss your project and how Wordsmith Associates might best accelerate your progress and advance your goals. Also, feel free to download a formatted PDF copy of our Publication Services for later reference.

Scoping Work and Pricing Services

To determine how we can best complement the client’s areas of skill and interest, the first activity with a prospective new client is have a preliminary conversation – to talk through the client’s ideas, plans & hopes, to identify specific project objectives, and to assess work that has already been done.

On this basis, with mutual agreement to move forward, we will recommend a project plan, and our proposed work will be priced as part of that (by the word, by the hour, or by the project). Once our proposal is accepted by the client, we will work collaboratively to drive the work to successful completion.

Contact Us at any time to set up a preliminary conversation to see how we might partner with you to accelerate your important projects to the desired results. We would love to hear your plans and are ready to assist as needed.

If you’re interested in learning more about ways we have helped others, take a look at the examples we feature as Client Success Stories.

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WRITINGS ON THE WALL

  • Word is a shadow of deed. –Democritus
  • Good words are worth much … and cost little. –George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum
  • In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature. –Wallace Stevens, Opus Posthumous
  • Choice word and measured phrase… above the reach of ordinary men. –William Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence
  • Man’s word is God in man. –Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Idylls of the King,” The Coming of Arthur
  • The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work and that writing didn’t require any. –Russell Baker, Growing Up
  • Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact. It is silence which isolates. –Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
  • The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls and whispered in the sounds of silence. –Paul Simon, The Sound of Silence
  • So is a word better than a gift. –Apocrypha
  • Nature fits all her children with something to do, He who would write and can’t write, can surely review. –James Russell Lowell, A Fable for Critics
  • Light dies before thy uncreating word; Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall, and universal darkness buries all. –Alexander Pope, The Dunciad
  • Honeyed words like bees, gilded and sticky, with a little sting. –Elinor Hoyt Wylie, Pretty Words
  • How long a time lies in one little word! Such is the breath of kings. –Shakespeare, King Richard II
  • Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. –Horace, Epistles
  • How many verses have I thrown into the fire because the one peculiar word, the wanted most, was irrecoverably lost. –Walter Savage Landor, Verses Why Burnt
  • A writer lives in awe of words for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator. –John Steinbeck, “In Awe of Words”
  • Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your action. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny. –Anonymous
  • Omit needless words. –William Strunk, Jr, The Elements of Style
  • Prête-moi ta plume pour écrire un mot. Lend me your pen to write a word. –Au Clair de la Lune
  • All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. –Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
  • I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long Words Bother me. –Alan Alexander Milne, Willie-the-Pooh
  • Sweet religion makes a rhapsody of words. –Shakespeare, Hamlet
  • And many a word, at random spoken, may soothe a wound or heart that’s broken. –Sir Walter Scott, Lord of the Isles
  • Words are like leaves and, where they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. –Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
  • In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. –The Common Gospel, “Eternal Word”
  • My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts –never to heaven go. –Shakespeare, Hamlet
  • The writer doesn’t want success ... The writer wants to leave a scratch on the wall of oblivion that someone a hundred or a thousand years later will see. Kilroy was here. –William Faulkner, Faulkner in the University
  • The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer’s radar and all great writers have had it. –Ernest Hemingway, Paris Review
  • It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some irradiating word. –Alexander Smith, “Dreamthorp,” On the Writing of Essays
  • Life's like a movie. Write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. –Jim Henson, The Muppet Movie
  • “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.” –Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
  • To call forth a concept, a word is needed; to portray a phenomenon, a concept is needed. All three mirror one and the same reality. –Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Traité Elémentaire de Chimie
  • Words are our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it. –Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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Printing in Perspective

Printing in Perspective
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