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On Teaching and Writing Fiction
By: Stegner, Wallace
Published by: Penguin Books (USA)
Stegner brings together eight previously uncollected essays--including four never-before-published pieces--on writing fiction and teaching creative writing. In this unique collection he addresses every aspect of fiction writing from the writer's vision to his or her audience to the recognizable truth it seeks finally to reveal.
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Price: $15.00
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Publicize Your Book
By: Deval, Jacqueline
Published by: Perigee
For first-time authors or the seasoned pro, this is the absolutely essential how-to for getting publicitytotally updated and expanded. This indispensable guide from a book publicity insider offers everything authors must know to assist their publishers in publicizing, marketing, and promoting their books, including:. Effective networking. Defining a target readership. Creating pitches for talk shows. Getting media coverage. Utilizing the Internet and other outlets. Preparing for interviews and tours. Hiring an independent publicist. With totally revised and updated information, advice, and resources, the insiders all agree: Read this book!( Ellen Levine, editorial director, Hearst Magazines)
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Price: $15.95
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The Right to Write
By: Cameron, Julia
Published by: Tarcher
What if everything we have been taught about learning to write was wrong? In The Right to Write, Julia Cameron's most revolutionary book, the author asserts that conventional writing wisdom would have you believe in a false doctrine that stifles creativity. With the techniques and anecdotes in The Right to Write, readers learn to make writing a natural, intensely personal part of life. Cameron's instruction and examples include the details of the writing processes she uses to create her own bestselling books. She makes writing a playful and realistic as well as a reflective event. Anyone jumping into the writing life for the first time and those already living it will discover the art of writing is never the same after reading The Right to Write.
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Price: $13.95
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Six-Figure Freelancing
By: James-Enger, Kelly
Published by: Random House Reference
Is it possible to give up your nine to five job and make more money as a full-time freelancer? Absolutely." Six-Figure Freelancing" shows writers how to make the most of the ballooning freelance industry by adopting a business-like approach to their craft, while offering insightful, first-hand advice to help maximize time and profit. - Includes worksheets and templates to assess and establish the best possible business strategy. - Advice on time management and repurposing material for multiple markets, as well as how to gain a competitive edge in a growing market
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Price: $14.95
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The Sound on the Page
By: Yagoda, Ben
Published by: Harper Collins
In writing, style matters. Our favorite writers often entertain, move, and inspire us less by what they say than by how they say it. In The Sound on the Page , acclaimed author, teacher, and critic Ben Yagoda offers practical and incisive help for writers on developing and discovering their own style and voice. This wonderfully rich and readable book features interviews with more than 40 of our most important authors discussing their literary style, including:. Dave Barry. Harold Bloom. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. Bill Bryson. Michael Chabon. Andrei Codrescu. Junot Díaz. Adam Gopnik. Jamaica Kincaid. Michael Kinsley. Elmore Leonard. Elizabeth McCracken. Susan Orlean. Cynthia Ozick. Anna Quindlen. Jonathan Raban. David Thomson. Tobias Wolff.
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Price: $10.99
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The Subversive Copy Editor
By: Saller, Carol Fisher
Published by: The University of Chicago Press
Each year writers and editors submit over three thousand grammar and style questions to the Q&A page at The Chicago Manual of Style Online. Some are arcane, some simply hilariousand one editor, Carol Fisher Saller, reads every single one of them. All too often she notes a classic author-editor standoff, wherein both parties refuse to compromise on the "rights" and "wrongs" of prose styling: "This author is giving me a fit." "I wish that I could just DEMAND the use of the serial comma at all times." "My author wants his preface to come at the end of the book. This just seems ridiculous to me. I mean, its not a post-face."In The Subversive Copy Editor, Saller casts aside this adversarial view and suggests new strategies for keeping the peace. Emphasizing habits of carefulness, transparency, and flexibility, she shows copy editors how to build an environment of trust and cooperation. One chapter takes on the difficult author; another speaks to writers themselves. Throughout, the focus is on serving the reader, even if it means breaking "rules" along the way. Sallers own foibles and misadventures provide ample material: "I mess up all the time," she confesses. "Its how I know things."Writers, Saller acknowledges, are only half the challenge, as copy editors can also make trouble for themselves. (Does any other book have an index entry that says "terrorists. See copy editors"?) The book includes helpful sections on e-mail etiquette, work-flow management, prioritizing, and organizing computer files. One chapter even addresses the special concerns of freelance editors. Sallers emphasis on negotiation and flexibility will surprise many copy editors who have absorbed, along with the dos and donts of their stylebooks, an attitude that their way is the right way. In encouraging copy editors to banish their ignorance and disorganization, insecurities and
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Telling True Stories
By: Kramer, Mark; Call, Wendy
Published by: Plume
Inspiring stories and practical advice from Americas most respected journalists. The countrys most prominent journalists and nonfiction authors gather each year at Harvards Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. Telling True Stories presents their best advice?covering everything from finding a good topic, to structuring narrative stories, to writing and selling your first book. More than fifty well-known writers offer their most powerful tips, including:. ? Tom Wolfe on the emotional core of the story. ? Gay Talese on writing about private lives. ? Malcolm Gladwell on the limits of profiles. ? Nora Ephron on narrative writing and screenwriters. ? Alma Guillermoprieto on telling the story and telling the truth. ? Dozens of Pulitzer Prize?winning journalists from the Atlantic Monthly, New Yorker, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and more . . . The essays contain important counsel for new and career journalists, as well as for freelance writers, radio producers, and memoirists. Packed with refreshingly candid and insightful recommendations, Telling True Stories will show anyone fascinated by the art of writing nonfiction how to bring people, scenes, and ideas to life on the page.
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Thanks, but This Isn't for Us
By: Morrell, Jessica Page
Published by: Tarcher
A fun, practical guide that reveals the essentials of good fiction and memoir writing by exposing the most common mistakes literary writers make. All great works of fiction and memoir are uniquebut most bad novels, stories, and memoirs have a lot in common. From clunky dialogue to poorly sketchedout characters, sagging pacing to exaggerated prose, these beginners mistakes drive any agent or editor to their stock rejection letter, telling the aspiring writer Thanks, but this isnt for us, and leaving many to wonder what exactly it is that theyre doing wrong. Veteran writing coach, developmental editor, and writing instructor Jessica Page Morrell will fill in the gaps in every rejection letter youve ever received. In Thanks, But This Isnt for Us , Morrell uses her years of experience to isolate the specific errors beginners make, including the pitfalls of unrealistic dialogue, failing to show, not tell, and over-the-top plot twists. These are just a few of the problems that keep writers from breaking through with their work. Sympathetic and humane, but pulling no punches, Thanks, But This Isnt for Us shows writers precisely where theyve gone wrong and how to get on the right track. In sixteen to-the-point chapters, with checklists, exercises, takeaway tips, and a glossary, Morrell helps readers transcend these mistakes so that they dont have to learn the hard way: with another rejection letter.
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This Year You Write Your Novel
By: Mosley, Walter
Published by: Little, Brown and Company
No more excuses. "Let the lawn get shaggy and the paint peel from the walls," bestselling novelist Walter Mosley advises. Anyone can write a novel now, and in this essential book of tips, practical advice, and wisdom, Walter Mosley promises that the writer-in-waiting can finish it in one year. Intended as both inspiration and instruction, the book provides the tools to turn out a first draft painlessly and then revise it into something finer. Mosley tells how to:. - Create a daily writing regimen to fit any writer's needs--and how to stick to it. - Determine the narrative voice that's right for every writer's style. - Get past those first challenging sentences and into the heart of a story.
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Price: $9.99
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