Publishing category: 6273 books
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel
The Last Book On Novel Writing You'll Ever Need
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
The first novel-writing guide from the best-selling Save the Cat! story-structure series, which reveals the 15 essential plot points needed to make any novel a success.
Novelist Jessica Brody presents a comprehensive story-structure guide for novelists that applies the famed Save the Cat! screenwriting...
The Right to Write
An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 1999
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 of the bestselling self-help guide The Artist's Way, asserts that conventional writing wisdom would have you believe in a false doctrine that stifles...
Romancing the Beat: Story Structure for Romance Novels
How to Write Kissing Books, #1
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
What makes a romance novel a romance? How do you write a kissing book?
Writing a well-structured romance isn't the same as writing any other genre—something the popular novel and screenwriting guides don't address. The romance arc is made up of its own story beats, and the external plot and...
by Brenda Miller, Suzanne Paola
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Five stars for Tell It Slant ... An enlightening, comprehensive, and very satisfying text on writing and shaping creative nonfiction."
--Sheila Bender, editor and publisher of writingitreal.com and author of Writing and Publishing Personal Essays
When the poet Emily Dickinson wrote, "Tell...
Ten Tips for Topping the Romance Charts
How To Get Your Own Happy Ever After
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Romance author Serenity Woods and best selling author Mark Dawson provide ten short tips to help the eager beginner interested in turning their hobby of writing romance stories into a way to earn a living.
Naked, Drunk, and Writing
Shed Your Inhibitions and Craft a Compelling Memoir or Personal Essay
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
The material is right there in front of you. You’ve known yourself for, well, a lifetime—and you finally feel ready to share your story with the world. Yet when it actually comes time to put pen to paper, you find that you’re stumped.
Enter Adair Lara: award-winning author, seasoned columnist,...
by Heather Hart
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Do you realize how many options are available to authors when it comes to book marketing?Have you thought about submitting a short story or report to an article directory, co-authoring a book series, or posting an excerpt from your book on Facebook?As authors, we are only limited by...
by Phil Wade
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
A quick guide for new authors. It takes you through how to go from ebook 1 to ebook 2 and beyond.
Now Write!
Fiction Writing Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2006
A collection of personal writing exercises and commentary from some of today's best novelists, short story writers, and writing teachers, including Jill McCorkle, Amy Bloom, Robert Olen Butler, Steve Almond, Jayne Anne Phillips, Virgil Suarez, Margot Livesay, and more.
What's the secret behind...
The Yahoo! Style Guide: Writing for an Online Audience
Writing for an Online Audience
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Previously published as part of The Yahoo! Style Guide.
WWW may be an acronym for the World Wide Web, but no one could fault you for thinking it stands for wild, wild West. The rapid growth of the Web has meant having to rely on style guides intended for print publishing, but these guides do not address...
Telling True Stories
A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Interested in journalism and creative writing and want to write a book? Read inspiring stories and practical advice from America’s most respected journalists.
The country’s most prominent journalists and nonfiction authors gather each year at Harvard’s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism....
by Skip Press
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
This guide is for anyone who has ever thought of screenwriting. Written by someone who has "been there, done that," and lived to tell the tale, it reveals the most popular genres, explains how stories need to be structured for feature films and TV movies, offers the freshest look at workshops and online classes, and disusses how to set up a step-by-step path to success.
Making a Literary Life
Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
As Carolyn See says, writing guides are like preachers on Sunday—there may be a lot of them, but you can’t have too many, and there’s always an audience of the faithful. And while Making a Literary Life is ostensibly a book that teaches you how to write, it really teaches you how to make your...
The Rise of the Modernist Bookshop
Books and the Commerce of Culture in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The trade in books has always been and remains an ambiguous commercial activity, associated as it is with literature and the exchange of ideas. This collection is concerned with the cultural and economic roles of independent bookstores, and it considers how eight shops founded during the modernist...