What’s a Word Cloud? It’s a picture of words with each word’s size representing how often the word is found in a source of text – such as my short story, RESCUING RAVEN, that released May 1st in the WILD DEADWOOD TALES anthology. It’s also a fun way to show what happens when Raven and Charlie meet in Deadwood, South Dakota in 1876!

How did I create Rescuing Raven’s Word Cloud picture?

HELLO WORDLE! 

Wordle is a free online program that (in the words of Wordle‘s creator, Jonathan Feinberg) “is a toy for generating ‘word clouds’ from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.

Note: at the time of posting this blog, Wordle required Java and said it would run on Internet Explorer or Safari on Mac (but not in a Chrome browser).

Want to find out more about RESCUING RAVEN & the WILD DEADWOOD TALES?

• Read Rescuing Raven’s opening scene on my website
• Visit Deadwood, South Dakota in 1876 – the setting of Rescuing Raven
• Meet real-life villain Al Swearengen & see how he challenged not Raven and Charlie but everyone in Deadwood
• Meet the 17 authors who donated stories to the Wild Deadwood Tales anthology
• Check out the 2018 Wild Deadwood Reads event where Rescuing Raven & the Wild Deadwood Tales anthology will be featured at the Book Signing & PBR rodeo

During 2018, purchase your copy of Wild Deadwood Tales. Proceeds go to Western Sports Foundation.

UPDATE: As of January 2019, Rescuing Raven is now available as a standalone read. 

Want to see the WORD CLOUD pictures for MY BOOKS (in the slideshow gallery below) or read an article revealing how the words men & women use to write about love are different? CLICK HERE 

What’s your favorite word? I’d love to hear it ❤