Word Up! - JUST RELEASED! 10 Questions with Writer's Writer Marcia Riefer Johnston (@MarciaRJohnston)
Cover art by Brian Hull Cover design by Vinnie Kinsella The Kindle edition of Word Up! by literary luminary and writer's writer Marcia Riefer Johnston is NOW AVAILABLE! When Marcia was 12, American Girl magazine printed her eight-paragraph story, “The Key,” and paid her $15. She has been writing ever since. She studied under Raymond Carver and Tobias Wolff in the Syracuse University creative-writing program. She taught technical writing in the Engineering School at Cornell University. She has done writing of all kinds for organizations of all kinds, from the Fortune 500 to the just plain fortunate. Photo by Wendy Hood Marcia has written for the scholarly journal Shakespeare Quarterly , the professional journal Technical Communication , and the weekly newspaper Syracuse New Times . She used to write letters by the boxful. She has contributed posts to her daughter’s Peace Corps blog, texts to her son’s Droid, and answers to her husband’s cr