Composition category: 2309 books
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Book Proposals and Query Letters
Put Your Best Book Forward!
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Tips for catching and holding an agent's attention.
Essential reading for any fiction or nonfiction writer seeking publication, The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Book Proposals & Query Letters provides in-depth information on composing a successful query letter as well as detailed suggestions...
Memoir
A History
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
From a critically acclaimed cultural and literary critic, a definitive history and analysis of the memoir.
From Saint Augustine?s Confessions to Augusten Burroughs?s Running with Scissors, from Julius Caesar to Ulysses Grant, from Mark Twain to David Sedaris, the art of memoir has had a fascinating...
by Ksenia Anske
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Blue Sparrow was born on Twitter. It's a compilation of my daily ramblings as a first time novelist encouraging myself and other writers to bite the bullet and do it despite the fear of blank paper, the insecurities, the angst every writer faces when left alone with the story and trying...
by Dinty W. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Find inspiration and insight on writing as a spiritual practice through astute quotes, thoughtful advice, and productive excercises on both mindfulness and craft.
This isn't your typical “how to write” book. Author Dinty W. Moore, a well-respected writing coach and teacher, thoughtfully...
The Spooky Art
Thoughts on Writing
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2003
“Writing is spooky,” according to Norman Mailer. “There is no routine of an office to keep you going, only the blank page each morning, and you never know where your words are coming from, those divine words.” In The Spooky Art, Mailer discusses with signature candor the rewards and trials...
For Writers Only
Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
"I see but one rule: to be clear." Stendhal
If only it were as easy for most writers as it was for Stendhal. The truth about the act of writing is much more varied, even violent. In fact, there seem to be as many contradictory admonitions about how to go about doing it as there are writers...
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...
Flash Nonfiction Funny
71 Very Humorous, Very True, Very Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The seventy-one flash essays collected here are hilarious proof that you don’t need more than 750 words to laugh out loud. Featuring both established and up-and-coming writers, these essays are no flashes in the pan—they demonstrate careful attention to craft and exploration: everything you want...
Old Friend from Far Away
The Practice of Writing Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2008
“Memoir writers, buy this book, put it on your personal altar, or carry it with you as you traverse the deep ruts of your old road.” —Tom Spanbauer, author of The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
Old Friend from Far Away teaches writers how to tap into their unique memories to tell...
Secrets of the Zona Rosa
How Writing (and Sisterhood) Can Change Women's Lives
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
An inspiring guide featuring the wit, wisdom, and stories of Zona Rosa, the writing-and-sisterhood workshop that has empowered thousands of women
For more than twenty years, Rosemary Daniell—Southern belle, successful writer, and tireless champion of female empowerment—has led Zona Rosa,...
by Lynn Lauber
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2003
An inspirational guide to charting your inner landscape through personal writing.
Why write out of our lives? What can it do for us? How can sharing our stories connect us with others? Acclaimed novelist and essayist Lynn Lauber chronicles her journey as a writer and longtime teacher at creative...
by Edith Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
A rare work of nonfiction from Edith Wharton, The Writing of Fiction contains brilliant advice on writing from the first woman ever to win a Pulitzer Prize -- for her first novel The Age of Innocence.
In The Writing of Fiction, Wharton provides general comments on the roots of modern fiction, the...
A Chronological History of Australian Composers and Their Compositions - Vol. 2
Volume 2: 1955-1984
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
This book is volume 2 of a 4 volume series, the first 3 of which have been published by Xlibris and the 4th almost complete for imminent delivery. In its entirety this work is the most comprehensive and accurate account of Australian Classical Music making ever undertaken. Its scope is from 1901-2012...
Talk, Talk
A Children's Book Author Speaks to Grown-Ups
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
In TalkTalk E. L. Konigsburg presents a selection of speeches she has given over a period of 25 years. In her introduction to the first speech, and to the book as a whole, she explains:
"While each of my books has been written because I had a story I wanted to tell, these speeches were written...