Welcome! You can learn how to write and publish through WTW in several ways:

1. Writing the World Seminars for less than $10 per hour in Green Valley, Tucson and Willcox Arizona. We’re working to developing a series of online seminars so we can span the country and maybe even the globe.

2. Writing the World Seminars on DVD — Each seminar runs approximately 3 hours and costs only $25. (You can buy all six current DVDs for $130.) You can also purchase paper copies of my nonfiction books on writing, Writing Realistic Dialogue & Flash Fiction and Punctuation for Writers. The latter is out of print so it’s available only from me. Email me at h_stanbrough@yahoo.com if you’re interested in either of those.

3. eBooks on Writing direct from the WTW Seminars. You can find all of them online at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/HStanbrough. You can purchase them separately, but all of my shorter WTW Seminar titles are included in one low-priced package called Notes from Writing the World. You can also find digital editions of Writing Realistic Dialogue & Flash Fiction and Punctuation for Writers there. My current best seller is The Essentials of Digital Publishing. For poets who are serious about their craft, I recommend The Craft of Poetry: Structure and Sound.

4. Writing the World Editing Services — Every time I edit a manuscript, I populate it with comments that explain all but the most self-explanatory edits. My goal is to start with an editing client and end up with a writer who no longer needs this particular WTW service.

5. eFormatting Preparation Service — If you’re interested in digital (electronic) publishing, I can format your Microsoft Word .doc to ensure that it will slip smoothly into all the various eformats during conversion at Smashwords, Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The smooth conversion is necessary to ensure inclusion in the Smashwords Premium Catalogue, which in turn ensures distribution to Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Sony, Diesel, Apple, and ScrollMotion.

6. eBook Cover Design and Creation — In conjunction with or separate of my editing and formatting services, I can also design and create a cover for your ebook. Here’s the latest Fee Schedule.

7. Submission Services — Finally, if you’d rather avoid the hassle of submitting the formatted Word .doc yourself to Smashwords, Amazon and Barnes & Noble, I’ll do that for you as well for an additional $30 fee. For a more in-depth rundown of Writing the World Professional Services, please see the Professional Services tab.

About Harvey Stanbrough

Harvey Stanbrough was born in New Mexico, seasoned in Texas, and baked in Arizona.

After surviving a 21-year civilian-appreciation course in the US Marine Corps, Harvey managed to sneak up on a bachelor’s degree at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales in 1996. Today he’s a successful writer of fiction and nonfiction, a freelance editor and a writing instructor. He also offers his knowledge in formatting Word .docs to ready them for epublication and creates ebook covers. Finally, he regularly posts to the Writing the World blog on this site, which is for writers and most often contains writing instruction, always free.

Experience — Harvey has written and published nine nonfiction ebooks on writing as well as Punctuation for Writers and Writing Realistic Dialogue & Flash Fiction in print. His comprehensive poetry collection, Beyond the Masks, was nominated for the National Book Award and has received rave reviews, and he’s published three other poetry collections and two long poems. Finally, he’s published four short story collections (Vignettes from a C-130, Six Years in May, The Well, and Stories from the Cantina), eight magic realism short stories (with at least ten more on the way), and nineteen other short stories in various other genres. (Click on any book cover in the first sidebar to see a description of that title.) Harvey’s works have been nominated for the Frankfurt Award, the Pushcart Prize and the National Book Award.

Again, welcome to Writing the World! We hope you’ll browse awhile and enjoy your stay. We also host a new website dedicated to Harvey’s magic realism fiction. Drop in for awhile at the Cantina Tales tab.  It’s a little different since it’s hosted by one of our major characters: the storyteller himself who owns the cantina, Juan-Carlos Salazár. Most of all, of course, if you enjoy what you see here, please tell others. Thanks for visiting!