William Vaughn

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WORDSMITH since 2004 online--Amazon Books.com, Wordpress.com @ Wordsmithsince2004; You Tube @ William Mark Vaughn; Googleplus @ William Mark Vaughn; Facebook @ William Mark Vaughn and Wordsmith since two thousand four

WORDSMITH since 2004 is a trade name and a trade mark of William Mark Vaughn (full legal name) --Mark Vaughn is the called name of William Mark Vaughn, but he also uses William Vaughn especially in legal matters requiring a first name such as application for employment.(his parents did that to him) William is his first name. Wordsmith in the name of Mr. Vaughn's small business entity. Wordsmith is a writing, writing consultation business and the name for any work by Mark Vaughn either literary or as an actor or artisan. Wordsmith was founded in 2004, and then tabled as a business failure until 2012 while working as a consultant for Valerie Van Orden, author of The Making of Topiary Belle, and Butterfly Parallel. She and Mark Vaughn worked together in the development of Animals of Divorce. Valerie Van Orden has been credited with this work as author under agreement. Mr. Vaughn has been on the stage in The Grapes of Wrath production. The picture of Mark Vaughn is him as the Mayor of Hooversville in October of 2014. The picture has been used by the permission of Market House Theater for promotional uses and for identification purposes. Wordsmith has used the art cart program of A'La Cart for display and promotion, and for sales. It is located in downtown Gazebo, and has a mailing address at 102 Broadway. The mailing address for Wordsmith, used also for business mail and personal mail for Mark Vaughn is PO Box 103, Paducah, KY 42002. Wordsmith is not yet incorporated and is listed in the business pages of Facebook as Wordsmith Unincorporated. This is done to emphasize that point. It will be changed to a corporate entity with due time.

Wordsmith since 2004

In 2004 after finishing two years of grueling medical training at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Mark Vaughn, also known as the 'stray dog' on his first Facebook site began a small business start that he later called "Wordsmith". It began really as an idea, that began with a young man...a child. Intrigued by his father's writing, and the stories at bed time, and on television on such things as Children's Workshop, and Saturday Morning Cartoons, among others...he started making books, and selling them to neighbors on Hunt Rd in Longwood, FL. In first grade there was no overhead, and the neighbors were quite kind. His picture books retailed for ten cents to a quarter.

Now over 42 years later, after being in existence in an active and then dormant state, Wordsmith boast several novels, press stories, and children's books, among other writings. It was intended to be a means to make income until work could be realized while waiting for licensing, and certification as a physician assistant. It became Wordsmith.

Wordsmith itself, as a company began with presentation at the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce with a business card and brochure indicating what could be done, and what was intended. Several businesses were approached and work was done, but with the onset of physician assistant practice in Atlanta, GA with Dr. Ramone Sanchez, a neurologist, Wordsmith went quiet.

It was not forgotten, cards kept, dreams still visited. There was copyright work done, of complimentary, or as a type of barter, but not unlike the first attempts of the young Wordsmith founder of knocking on doors with his 'pad, illustrated creations of stories featuring favorites told in a another form. There was help along the way like from the author of "How To Make Money From Your Writing", the how to guide that assisted with copyright start-up; and from folks such as 'The Adsmith' on Milledge Ave, in Athens, GA, who helped with basic encouragement, advice and inspiration for the business name. But like the name of his second child, it was in dispute whose idea it was to make wordsmith the company name.

The first real break came with South Tampa news with the submission of an Article entitled "Save Sandy Creek" about an Audubon societies attempt to save a small scenic area in a quickly industrializing area near Orlando. It appeared in the South Tampa News. Stephanie Bollings, of the South Tampa News then sent information regarding an editor to whom addition copy could be sent. So a company began to grow into full fruition, and a dream realized.

Currently several original novel titles have been submitted for publication to University Press in Athens, GA. and ideas for production have been sent to such big names as the Celtic Woman, and Paramount Pictures, the home of Desilu Studios, the once famed business start of Lucile and Desi Arnez, home of "I Love Lucy, "Star Trek", and "Bonanza".

Wordsmith now boasts over thirty titles by Mark Vaughn, or under pen names William Vaughn and William Mark Vaughn. William Mark Vaughn is the legal name of Mark Vaughn who has a called name Mark, his second legal name by birth certificate. Mark Vaughn has used only one other pen name, Redd Fields, and that was with regards to an opinion page article in the USA Today in 1988 while he was living in Jefferson, GA at Rt 2 Box 101.

What is the inspiration for Wordsmith?

It comes from many places. From the writings of Tolkien, and CS Lewis, and Samuel Longhorn Clemens; From the stories and fairy tales found in such texts as Grimm's Fairy Tales; In the classical writings of Poe, and Ambrose Bierce, and Charles Dickens; And from the Antiquities' of old including such sacred texts as the Holy Bible, and the constitutions of the United States, and other nations around the world found in history..

But mostly from a simple place that was not to different from Bilbo and Frodo's shire, or Polly and Digory's apartment; or Digory's country home where Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy came for a visit. Mom and Dad; family and simple quiet wisdom learned every day in a very ordinary place called home.

That's Wordsmith in a word.

Family-

And home.