Writing Publishing category: 5352 books
Sex, Lies and Book Publishing
What You Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Keep your friends close. Keep your enemies closer. Keep your publisher closest of all. If you are interested in being published, you should do all you can to make the publishing business interested in you. But how? You've already written a good book, so what else do you have to do to give yourself...
How Dare We! Write
A Multicultural Creative Writing Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
How Dare We! Write: a multicultural creative writing discourse offers a much needed corrective to the usual dry and uninspired creative writing pedagogy. The collection asks us to consider questions, such as "What does it mean to work through resistance from supposed mentors, to face rejection...
by Kelli A. Wilkins
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
You Can Write—Really! A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Fiction
Have you always wanted to write?
Are you looking for an extra boost of motivation?
Do you have a great story idea, but don’t know how to develop it?
If you've always dreamed of writing and getting published,...
by Kim Staflund
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Are your book sales lower than you’d hoped for? Never fear! Help is here!
From one introvert to another, I can tell you that, yes, it is possible to sell your book all around the world using nothing more than a comfortable chair in your quiet writing room, a laptop, an Internet connection,...
Writing Down the Bones
Freeing the Writer Within
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
For more than thirty years Natalie Goldberg has been challenging and cheering on writers with her books and workshops. In her groundbreaking first book, she brings together Zen meditation and writing in a new way. Writing practice, as she calls it, is no different from other forms of Zen practice—"it...
by Larry Beinhart
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
WHODUNIT? YOUDUNIT!
So you want to write a mystery. There's more to it than just a detective, a dead body, and Colonel Mustard in the drawing room with the candlestick. Fortunately, Larry Beinhart--Edgar Award-winning author of You Get What You Pay For, Foreign Exchange, and American Hero--has taken...
Structuring Your Novel Box Set
How to Write Solid Stories That Sell
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
2 Bestselling Guides Packed With Tips to Help You Brainstorm and Plan Your Best Story
From Award-Winning and Internationally Published Writing Mentor K.M. Weiland
With almost 500 pages of step-by-step guidance, these two individual books have 340+ five star reviews on Amazon and have...
by Roz Morris
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
'Nail Your Novel is on my shortlist of indispensable writing books' - Lisa Cron, author of Wired For Story
'Comprehensive, concise and packed with helpful tips for all writers' - Geri Ahearn, Amazon Vine reviewer
What keeps a reader curious? It’s the story. You might have a dazzling...
How to Write Like Tolstoy
A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
For anyone who has ever identified with a hero or heroine, been seduced by a strong opening sentence, or been powerfully moved by a story’s end, How to Write Like Tolstoy is a thought-provoking journey inside the minds of the world’s most accomplished storytellers, from Shakespeare to Stephen...
Advice to the Writer
The Writer's Guide to Plot, Revision, and Autobiography: A Digital Pamphlet: Excerpted from The Modern Library's Writer's Workshop
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
From Stephen Koch, former chair of Columbia University’s graduate creative writing program, comes essential and practical advice drawn from The Modern Library Writer’s Workshop.
With nearly thirty years of teaching experience, Stephen Koch has earned a reputation as an astute and benevolent...
Writing to Heal the Soul
Transforming Grief and Loss Through Writing
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Susan Zimmermann experienced a devastating loss when her first child, Katherine, developed a neurological disorder that left her unable to walk or talk. Faced with her daughter’s disability, Susan struggled with fear, denial, guilt, bitterness, and despair. She began to heal only through writing....
by Norman Spinrad
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2012
Norman Spinrad describes the writing of his famous BUG JACK BARRON novel by answering three questions: "how did I come to write Bug Jack Barron? what urged me to do it? how do I hope to continue writing SF while bugging editors?" He goes on to explain the behind-the-scenes that went on with...
The Breakout Novelist
How to Craft Novels That Stand Out and Sell
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
The all-inclusive guide for novel writers
If you're serious about making your fiction vibrant, engaging, and marketable, you've found the right book. The Breakout Novelist gives you the craft and business know-how you need to make your book stand out.
Inside, veteran agent Donald Maass brings...
You Can't Make This Stuff Up
The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction--from Memoir to Literary Journalism and Everything in Between
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
From "the godfather behind creative nonfiction" (Vanity Fair) comes this indispensable how-to for nonfiction writers of all levels and genres, "reminiscent of Stephen King's fiction handbook On Writing" (Kirkus).
Whether you're writing a rags-to-riches tell-all memoir or...