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  • The Weekend Novelist Writes a Mysteryby Robert J. Ray

    Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.00

    Like Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, Sara Paretsky and Thomas Harris, you, too, can learn the trade secrets of quality detective fiction. It's true.  Just one year from now, you can deliver a completed mystery novel to a publisher--by writing only on weekends.  Authors Robert J.  Ray and Jack Remick guide you through the entire mystery-writing... more...

  • The Weekend Novelistby Robert J. Ray; Bret Norris

    Crown Publishing Group 2011; US$ 17.95

    Who doesn't dream of writing a novel while holding on to a day job? Robert J. Ray and coauthor Bret Norris can help readers do just that, with this proven practical and accessible step-by-step guide to completing a novel in just a year's worth of weekends. The Weekend Novelist shows writers of all levels how to divide their writing time into... more...

  • Theory and the Novelby Jeffrey J. Williams; Anthony Cascardi; Richard Macksey

    Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 29.00

    In Theory and the Novel Jeffrey Williams analyses a range of novels - Tristram Shandy, Joseph Andrews, The Turn of the Screw, Wuthering Heights, Lord Jim, and Heart of Darkness - and shows how narrative technique is never beyond or outside plot. He offers a striking and original contribution to readings of the English novel, as well as to current... more...

  • Telling Lies for Fun & Profitby Lawrence Block

    HarperCollins 2009; US$ 10.99

    Characters refusing to talk? Plot plodding along? Where do good ideas come from anyway? In this wonderfully practical volume, two-time Edgar Award-winning novelist Lawrence Block takes an inside look at writing as a craft and as a career. From studying the market, to mastering self-discipline and "creative procrastination," through coping with rejections,... more...

  • Narrative Formby Professor Suzanne Keen

    Palgrave Macmillan 2003; US$ 31.00

    This handbook concisely introduces narrative form to advanced students of fiction. Beginning with a survey of major theorists and approaches, and using clearly defined terms, Narrative Form explains critical vocabulary and offers a variety of strategies for analyzing the formal qualities of fiction. Keen suggests that interpretations of form can... more...

  • Spider, Spin Me A Webby Lawrence Block

    HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99

    The craft of writing is a lot like spinning a web: You take threads and weave them skillfully together, and only you know where this intricate network of twists and turns begin and how it will end. Now, with Lawrence Bloock's expert advice, you can learn this art of entrapping your reader in a maze of facinating fiction. Spider, Spin Me a Web is... more...

  • Story and Situationby Ross Chambers; Wlad Godzich

    University of Minnesota Press 1984; US$ 70.50

    Studies the relation between teller and listener in a set of French, English, and American short stories from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. more...

  • How Ficta Follow Fictionby Alberto Voltolini

    Springer 2006; US$ 149.99

    Presents a theory of fictional entities which is syncretistic insofar as it integrates the work of previous authors. This work puts forward a metaphysical conception of the nature of these entities, according to which a fictional entity is a compound entity built up from both a make-believe theoretical element and a set theoretical element. more...

  • On Teaching and Writing Fictionby Wallace Stegner; Lynn Stegner

    Penguin Group US 2002; US$ 15.00

    Wallace Stegner founded the acclaimed Stanford Writing Program-a program whose alumni include such literary luminaries as Larry McMurtry, Robert Stone, and Raymond Carver. Here Lynn Stegner brings together eight of Stegner's previously uncollected essays-including four never-before-published pieces -on writing fiction and teaching creative writing.... more...

  • Awaken the Writer Withinby Cathy Birch

    How To Books 2005; US$ 17.00

    Helps you with your desire to write and shows how to fulfil this desire. This book includes: visualisation techniques, flow charts, and word webs. Each of these is designed to help you to explore both your conscious and your subconscious mind and to harness your creativity with a view to developing your characters, settings, plot and dialogue. more...