| Freelance Writing Bill Cissna has written advertising, brochure and public relations copy since 1974. A part-time travel and copywriter from 1991 to 1998, he worked full-time in the travel & tourism trade from late 1998 to early 2004. Today, he writes on travel, people profiles, the arts and other subjects for a variety of publications. ********** Plays, Novels and Other Fictions For full details on plays written since 2006, click here, or on the "Plays" button to the left. My blog about writing and encountering plays can be found here. Novels to date are A Simple Murder and Fictionography of a Mental Coward. Earlier short fiction can be found here. *********** Voiceover Work Bill has used his voice as a singer over the years, and sometimes, for radio and V/O. After fall 2009 training and professional production of demo recordings (commercial and narration), Bill can create professional voiceover work from his home digital recording space or at your regional, central North Carolina studio. *********** For more about Bill's experience, click on "About Me." For examples of articles and placements, click on "What I Do." |
Bill Cissna
Freelance Writer, Playwright
and Novelist
and Novelist
Website contents copyright 2006-2012, William D. Cissna
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Want to hear me talk mysteries and the
detective genre? Walkertown Friends of the
Library Book Club is Saturday, March 10,
2012 from 10:30 to noon!
Two novels are available as e-Books on Kindle
and Nook - genre detective novel A SIMPLE
MURDER and coming-of-age (and light parody)
novel FICTIONOGRAPHY OF A MENTAL
COWARD. A SIMPLE MURDER is also available
in hard copy through Amazon.com. Just search
"Bill Cissna."
At The Shrine - was at the inaugural The Top
:10 short play fest at the Franklin Park Arts
Center, Purcellville, VA, August 5-7, 2011.
My short script, "Communication Gap," was
part of Evening of Short Plays #24, Drama
Center Theatre, Greensboro Cultural Center,
Greensboro, February 10-13, 2011.
About the one-night reading of Bill's second
full-length play script, "All About Faith"
(January 28, 2011 at Theatre Alliance in
Winston-Salem).
About the October 2010 world premiere of
"Conversations in a Cafe" (now available in
print form).
detective genre? Walkertown Friends of the
Library Book Club is Saturday, March 10,
2012 from 10:30 to noon!
Two novels are available as e-Books on Kindle
and Nook - genre detective novel A SIMPLE
MURDER and coming-of-age (and light parody)
novel FICTIONOGRAPHY OF A MENTAL
COWARD. A SIMPLE MURDER is also available
in hard copy through Amazon.com. Just search
"Bill Cissna."
At The Shrine - was at the inaugural The Top
:10 short play fest at the Franklin Park Arts
Center, Purcellville, VA, August 5-7, 2011.
My short script, "Communication Gap," was
part of Evening of Short Plays #24, Drama
Center Theatre, Greensboro Cultural Center,
Greensboro, February 10-13, 2011.
About the one-night reading of Bill's second
full-length play script, "All About Faith"
(January 28, 2011 at Theatre Alliance in
Winston-Salem).
About the October 2010 world premiere of
"Conversations in a Cafe" (now available in
print form).
Photo by Gene Stafford