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by Vanessa Devereaux
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Have you ever dreamed about writing a romance story that doesn’t stop at the bedroom door and gets readers hot under the collar? Or maybe you want to heat up your story even more and write erotica.In this book, bestselling erotic romance and erotica author, Vanessa Devereaux shows you how...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Best Food Writing is the place where readers and food writers meet to celebrate the most delicious prose of the year-serving up everything to whet your appetite from entertaining blogs to provocative journalism. This year's edition includes food writing stars (Michael Pollan, Pete Wells, and Jonathan...
by Holly Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
"Browse, read a bit, browse some more, and then head for the kitchen."--Hudson Valley News
From small-town bakeries to big city restaurants, Best Food Writing offers a bounty of everything in one place. For eighteen years, Holly Hughes has scoured both the online and print world to...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
For fourteen years, Best Food Writing has served up the creme de la creme of the year's food writing. The 2014 edition once again offers the tastiest prose of the year, from a range of voices: food writing stars, James Beard Award winners, writer-chefs, bestselling authors, and up-and-coming bloggers...
Let It Bleed
How to Write a Rockin' Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Author of the international bestseller I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie, Pamela Des Barres shares with women the art of memoir writing.
For the last fourteen years, Pamela Des Barres has been teaching an eight-week women's "femoir" writing workshop. She found that the music-loving...
The Thorn Necklace
Healing Through Writing and the Creative Process
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
For devotees of Bird by Bird and The Artist's Way, a memoir-driven guide to healing through the craft of writing
Francesca Lia Block is the bestselling author of more than twenty-five books, including the award-winning Weetzie Bat series. Her writing has been called "transcendent"...
A Stranger's Journey
Race, Identity, and Narrative Craft in Writing
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Long recognized as a master teacher at writing programs like VONA, the Loft, and the Stonecoast MFA, with A Stranger’s Journey, David Mura has written a book on creative writing that addresses our increasingly diverse American literature. Mura argues for a more inclusive and expansive definition...
by Cenarth Fox
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2012
Writing online is a worldwide activity. Writers now have a huge market in which to make money. But while anyone can be published online, do writers make any money? Of course some don't want to be paid. But for those who do, how do they find work and what sort of pay can they expect and actually...
A Field Guide for Science Writers
The Official Guide of the National Association of Science Writers
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2005
This is the official text for the National Association of Science Writers. In the eight years since the publication of the first edition of A Field Guide for Science Writing, much about the world has changed. Some of the leading issues in today's political marketplace - embryonic stem cell research,...
Kicking In the Wall
A Year of Writing Exercises, Prompts, and Quotes to Help You Break Through Your Blocks and Reach Your Writing Goals
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
When Patti Smith was plagued with writer’s block — “scattered and stymied, surrounded by unfinished songs and abandoned poems” — playwright Sam Shepard advised her, “When you hit a wall, just kick it in.” In these pages, Abercrombie shows readers how to do just that. Like a workout with...
Sin and Syntax
How to Craft Wicked Good Prose
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
A fully revised and updated edition with writing prompts and challenges in every chapter
Today’s writers need more spunk than Strunk: whether it's the Great American e-mail, Madison Avenue advertising, or Grammy Award-winning rap lyrics, memorable writing must jump off the page. Copy veteran...
by James Scott Bell
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Ramp up the tension and keep your readers hooked! Inside you'll find everything you need to know to spice up your story, move your plot forward, and keep your readers turning pages. Expert thriller author and writing instructor James Scott Bell shows you how to craft scenes, create characters, and...
Crafting The Personal Essay
A Guide for Writing and Publishing Creative Non-Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2010
Award winning essayist Scott Russell Sanders once compared the art of essay writing to "the pursuit of mental rabbits"-a rambling through thickets of thought in search of some brief glimmer of fuzzy truth. While some people persist in the belief that essays are stuffy and antiquated, the...
by Sara Maitland
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2005
The Writer's Way is a comprehensive and rewarding introduction to the art of creative writing. Its no-nonsense yet accessible tone and practical contents make it the perfect guide, whether you are a raw beginner of you have started writing and are looking for friendly guidance to help develop your talent....