Compass Books imprint: 83 books
The Scholarship Game
A No-Fluff Guide To Making College Affordable
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
The Scholarship Game is a guide to the college application and scholarship selection processes written from the perspective of someone who just finished them. The book provides a step-by-step walkthrough of the application process beginning with developing a resume and deciding where to apply, and ending...
Life Coaching for Writers
An Essential Guide to Realizing your Creative Potential
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Life Coaching for Writers is a self-help and personal development guide for every writer that will help you to unleash your creative potential. Whether you are a fiction or non-fiction writer, it's not always easy to be creative - life conspires to throw up obstacles, fears and external influences that...
by Susie Kearley
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
In 2011 Susie Kearley quit a 15-year marketing career to start up as a freelance writer in the middle of a recession. In this book, she shares how, in under two years, she went from being an aspirational rookie, to working for some of the biggest names in publishing. This book is inspirational. It provides...
by Suzanne Ruthven
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
All sorts of different people want to learn how to do different things getting a personal make-over, surviving health scares, business or career advice, self-help and improvement, travelling, living and working abroad, acquiring social skills, developing a hobby, creative writing the list is endless....
by Sally Spedding
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Have you dreamt of becoming a thriller writer but not dared to do so because of lack of self-belief, or the necessary time, or both? Are you also a thriller reader who has been disappointed by the sameness and lack of ambition in what you've read? If so, this book will help you create chiller thrillers...
Surfing The Rainbow
Visualisation and Chakra Balancing for Writers
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
'Surfing the Rainbow' is for anyone who has tried and failed to create the novel of their dreams. If you have been held back by negative messages from the past, or feel your imagination has gone away, then the exercises in this book will help to guide you back to the path of creativity and exploration. Color code your writing - follow the rainbow until you find the gold.
Astro-Characters
A Writer’s Guide to Creating Compelling Fictional Characters With the Signs of Zodiac
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Many new – and even experienced – fiction writers find characterisation difficult. Astrology offers a unique – and very easy – method of creating effective, intriguing, and authentic multi-layered personalities that leap off the page. Astro-characters starts with a guide to creating vibrant,...
Be a Travel Writer, Live your Dreams, Sell your Features
Travel Writing Step by Step
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Break into Travel Writing, Make it Pay the Easy Way.
Fiction - The Art and the Craft
How Fiction is Written and How to Write it
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Fiction - The Art and the Craft is a highly practical exposition of all the major elements of fiction - such as plot, conflict, suspense, the hook, inference, character and dialogue - and how these elements are combined to make a compelling story. Using examples from well-known works of literature and...
The Writer's Internet
A Creative Guide to the World Wide Web
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
The Writer's Internet is a book aimed at writers who want to get the best out of the Internet but don't know how. Written in an easy-to-read and friendly style, it demystifies the World Wide Web and makes it more accessible to writers.The Writer's Internet is the essential guide to the World Wide Web for writers and authors.
The Lifestyle Writer
How to Write for the Home and Family Market
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
The Lifestyle Writer is a book that explores every aspect of writing for the home and family market. From writing parenting and childcare articles to writing for the travel and technology markets, it is packed full of tips and advice for the budding writer.
Telling Life's Tales
A Guide to Writing Life Stories for Print and Publication
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Telling Life’s Tales is a comprehensive guide to writing life stories. It helps writers and non-writers to decide what they want to tell of their lives and how they want to tell it. Giving practical advice and information, the reader will learn story structure, key elements of writing, how to plot...
The Country Writer's Craft
Writing For Country, Regional & Rural Publications
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Country Writer s Craft: Writing for country, regional and rural publications, covers one of the widest marketplaces for writers in the English-speaking world especially in the UK, Australia and the USA. Here we have examples of previously published materials, together with writers exercises to help build...
Desiring Dragons
Creativity, imagination and the Writer's Quest
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Author of The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien, talked of ‘desiring dragons’; that he would prefer ‘a wilderness of dragons’ to the bleak territory of the unimaginative critic. The genre of Fantasy (including Science Fiction and its various sub-genres in TV, film & computer games) has never been more popular....