From the Desk

It is getting to be late afternoon here in upstate New York. As upstate as the capital region of New York is. I say is , because there are many who emphatically state upstate does not begin until you get north of Glens Falls. So, let's get back to it's a great day . It is. And every day, everyone should try to find something beautiful about each day. I do. Every day I find something beautiful — even on my worst of days. I find something beautiful in the simple fact I wake up.

I built this thing backwards. Most people start with the website. The logo. The business plan. The color palette that says I am a serious creative professional and here is my mission statement in Helvetica. I started with a woman named Opal Morrison sitting in a worn armchair with a Dodgers blanket across her lap, telling a fictional baseball player that he reminded her of her father. I started with a barn owl writing a constitutional amendment. I started with a ten-year-old

You found this place the way the best things are found — not because someone told you to look, but because something in you was already looking. Wonderous Worlds of Words is a literary house. Not a publisher in the traditional sense — something closer to a workshop, a stage, and a whiskey bar where five very different writers share a single belief: that words, when they land right, change the temperature in the room. Five pens. Five voices. One roof. Wyatt Wayne Brennan write