Creative Services
Your Portfolio Website with a Store Option
If you’re a professional creative of any kind (freelancer, author, artist, speaker, subject matter expert, or the like) you need a portfolio website online to get the word out and help you find new work. Your accomplishments should be presented convincingly on your own, custom web pages.
Store Option — You could even run your own bookstore (or art store, etc.) on your portfolio website. You can sell your own works in your own catalog online, complete with an ecommerce checkout. An author can set up their very own virtual bookstore and sell their books and stories. Any creative can do this.
Who could be a better choice to help you showcase your work than a self-published, working author who has satisfied similar needs? Especially when that website-building, working author also brings marketing experience and insight, an agency and entrepreneurial background, and a track record of successful business support.
Joseph has been a digital native since 1970 when he began maintaining and installing digital computers. He began building websites in early 2008 when Google Sites first appeared online. He built this website that you’re reading right now and several others.
He comes well prepared with relevant education and skills, excellent tools, decades of experience and a keen desire to help Clients excel. These days, his favorite sitebuilding system is Squarespace.com which gives you the chops to sustain a gorgeous portfolio site with all of the marketing functionality that you need, including blogs. You can have a site that you can easily maintain and update on your own even without any coding; include a newsletter for customer outreach, if desired. Or an online store with a catalog and ecommerce checkout.
When you're ready to develop or enhance your professional image and online presence, Joseph will build what you need that fits your budget and deliver on plan. It all begins with a dialog that leads to the engaging, custom website that you envision, at a fixed cost that you can afford. He’ll help with your website definition, a written quotation with fixed cost and a schedule that you can live with.
Get Writing Assistance
Have you heard that “A book is the new business card?” If you have the tasteful suit and the winning smile but you still need more powerful persuasion, let's chat. All of the great, recent and contemporary writers who became household names had at least one steely-eyed editor helping them. Some authors had several.
Everyone "has a book in them" but most of us need a literary midwife to help us bring it into the world. A writing pro never stops developing. Writing well is an exacting, solitary expertise but you don’t have to be a loner. Don't let your prose leave home without perfecting.
“I have found it rare, in my life, to encounter professionals who under promise and over deliver. Joseph Riden is one such individual. I wrote a series of articles on fishing adventures, which were good but needed some wordsmithing. I found Joseph, with some effort, and he turned my ordinary work into extraordinary prose.”
Ghostwriting Memoir
Everyone's an expert in something but not everyone knows how to write well in US English. Joseph writes or rewrites anything that you relate to him in a textual draft or in voice recordings. Then, even if you think you’re not much of a writer, your memoir or other writing project will read like the work of a competent author who knows what you accomplished and experienced. Your memories or imaginings can take on a new life in your readers’ minds and hearts with vividness, style, and grace.
Adept in both fiction and nonfiction, Joseph also writes creative nonfiction, the newer prose category that applies fiction tropes, techniques, and treatments to factual narratives and memoir. This style brings a true narrative to life on the pages most vividly. Consider the stories in the collection Triplet, as examples. Two are fiction and one is creative nonfiction. Can you tell the difference?
Triplet is a special edition ebook. It only becomes available to you free when you sign up for Joseph’s elist. See the footer message at the bottom of this page. The Triplet collected stories are also available as standalone publications in Amazon Kindle. Joseph’s Amazon Author Page lists them all.
Alpha and Beta Reading
Many new writers who self-publish try to save cash by skipping or shortening the edit phase or by self-editing only. If that's you, then you definitely should consider at least alpha and beta readings for your work. Writers need both alpha and beta readers to simulate their audience as much as they need an editor.
Skilled readers help you perfect your prose and story appeal from the very start as you also build better writing habits while you work.When you’re drafting a story, book or document that must be error-free and well-developed, the initial and final checking should be done by someone other than yourself at two critical points — before writing too far and just before publishing.
Alpha reading is for your early drafts, from outline through your first full manuscript, to check story concept, plot continuity, story and character arcs, genre fit, and more. Joseph alpha reads to look for anything that falls short of excellence in your grand design before you spend months or years writing yourself into a corner. Also, to find any missed opportunities for excellence. You can send your story concept and outline to be checked even before you start drafting. The alpha read can be finished on your first full draft when available.
When you believe your piece is finally ready, a careful beta reading is a fitting, final check of a book’s development before self-publishing or submissions.
“Joseph Riden’s writing skills are profoundly intuitive… [his] writing capabilities are definitely noteworthy.”
Editing
Writers are all fallible so at least one professional editor stands behind every famous author that you admire or perhaps envy — even the legendary American novelists. Whether fiction or nonfiction, Joseph will help you take your writing beyond the next level. After corrections, you can also find and weigh any opportunities to improve your prose, story structure, and writing style. He offers all the editing forms: copy- line- and developmental editing, as your manuscript may need.
Writing Coaching and Tutoring
Personalized learning is the key to rapid progress in your writing. Even for professionals, the hardest parts can be finding where you need improvement and knowing how to elevate your prose. After reading and analysing your work, Joseph suggests tools and improvements that you can apply across the board in everything you write. You can have a writing mentor to help you find opportunities and take best advantage of them to build expertise and improve your writing craft permanently.
Web Content & Blogging
Joseph has not only learned to use the Internet, he’s been a digital native for more decades than he likes to count. As a mechanical design engineer, he helped develop supercomputer servers that support business and science, host the Internet around the world, and pull today’s businesses toward AI sentience. But writing has always been his first love.
Joseph built this website that you’re reading now and several others, including writing all the textual copy. Contact him HERE to access his clips and samples or you can read from his blog on this website or find his other publications on Amazon HERE. He can walk you through good answers to all of your questions on how to start a popular blog and make money with a blog online. Or if you want a guest blogger, he can create blog content that brings your business message to web users around the world.
Self-Publishing Assistance
With an ever-growing number of self-published books, Joseph learned how to publish with minimal hassle, effort, and cost and with international distribution but it’s still complex, demanding, and sometimes frustrating. Self-publishing with a worldwide reach that achieves professional quality on a shoestring requires insider knowledge, good tools and instincts, and thorough attention to detail.
As traditional publishing wanes, the brave new world of digital, print-on-demand publishing invites new minds and works. Self-publishing with worldwide distribution adds both greater marketing power and higher complexity for indie authors at the same time. Joseph can publish a print-on-demand book for you or help you learn to self-publish your own books.
Affordable Writers’ Support
You’ll find Joseph’s fees are typical and customary for the industry. He may often be able to quote your job by providing a single, all-inclusive figure for a whole project in a written agreement. If cost is a barrier for you, he offers a custom diagnostic report that highlights tendencies you need to watch for and avoid, correct, or eliminate in your writing. You can use this personalized writing analysis and some suggested tools to guide you through effective self-editing. The better the self-editing you do before engaging an editor, the better the final outcome will be. But when you write for any kind of publication you also need a real human editor other than yourself.
Chat For Free
The first step is your move. Contact Joseph for a no-charge conversation about your your business, needs, and project with no obligation. All of his services come with a satisfaction guarantee. Connect with Joseph via email and begin a dialog, without expectations or pressure. Take the initiative — click CONTACT and send him a message. Expect no pressure or hype, just results.
