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The new expanded edition of the bestseller Booklist calls, "A must-have for would-be writers!" The one book a fiction or memoir writer needs, focusing on beginnings, character, dialogue, research, work habits, plot, memory, dealing with deeply personal material, and publishing.

INSIDE — Is Victoria Rowell Headed Back to Y&R? Did Missy Reeves Go Too Far? Inside Report! Plus: Reaction From the Daytime Community! Is A Y&R Spin-off In The Works? Exclusive: Inside the Sony/CBS Cast and Crew Meeting On Set This Past Week! Update on Hogan Sheffer’s Y&R Status! Eileen...

A fun, engaging guide helps you speak the mother tongue like a native. Whether you are traveling to Great Britain or just want to understand British popular culture, this unique dictionary will answer your questions. British English from A to Zed contains more than 5,500 British terms and their...

This is a practical-and encouraging-how-to book from a long-time teacher of personal and family history writing. Katie Funk Wiebe helps beginning memoir writers get started collecting the stories of their lives. She gives hints for recalling distant memories and tracking down family heirlooms. This...

Her life was a triumphant one that lacked only eight years of a full century. When she was eight-five, she climbed from the road to the highest peak in North Carolina. On her ninetieth birthday, her six children replaced her worn piano with a more tuneful one on which she could play the thunderous...

Poems and songs written in the last thirty years. Some from my angsty teenage years, others during perios of joy or gloom, yet others during late night sessions of giggling histerics with friends.

Norman Coffey lives in Southwest Florida and works as a bartender at the Captiva Island Yacht Club during winter season. Off-season he spends time with his family on Long Island, New York. His many years of standing, twisting and turning behind the bar resulted in serious knee damage requiring surgery. This...

Leo Tolstoy's fascinating classic treatise on art is as relevant today as it was over one hundred years ago. Highly-readable, often witty, anyone with an interest in the nature of art and its connection to what it is to be human will find this book a treat. For the first time, this long out-of-print...

In One-Way Tickets, Borinsky offers up a splendid tour across 20th-century literatures, providing a literary travelogue to writers and artists in exile. She describes their challenges in adjusting to new homelands, issues of identity and language, and the brilliant works produced under the discomforts...

Do you want to write a cozy mystery but don’t have a clue where to start? Or maybe you’ve begun a story but are stuck on the plot? Perhaps you’re already writing a series, and you need tips on keeping your material fresh? Writing the Cozy Mystery will help you develop your characters, establish...

Writing Prompts and Ideas to Kick-Start Your Story Learn how to     Kick-Start the Muse   Have you ever wanted to write a story but didn’t know what to write about? Writing Prompts and Ideas is your go to guide packed with ideas for...

A uniquely American vocabulary has evolved from its British beginnings—here are the roots of such words as “a-ok,” “grandstanding,” “rat race,” and more! The Queen’s English has no place across the pond, where a long history of defiance, creativity, and originality has made...

INSIDE — 2011 Yearbook: The Worthy and the Worthless! Best and Worst Performances of the Year! Biggest News Headlines! Exclusive Interview: Maura West Speaks Out On Being Wasted on Y&R! Plus: Working With Michael Muhney, Where World Turns’s Jack and Carly Are Now, and The Future of Daytime TV!...

The Courage to Write is an invaluable book and essential reading for anyone who wishes to learn how to write well. Katherine Anne Porter called courage "the first essential" for a writer. "I have to talk myself into bravery with every sentence," agreed Cynthia Ozick, "sometimes...