Authorship category: 1257 books
by Tobias S. Buckell
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
New York Times Bestseller Tobias S. Buckell has published 45 short stories in various magazines and anthologies. But in the process of learning how to sell those 45, he wrote over 100 short stories that failed in a variety of ways while learning the craft. In Nascence, he reprints 17 failed stories...
Writer with a Day Job
Inspiration & Exercises to Help You Craft a Writing Life Alongside Your Career
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Don’t let the daily grind drain your creative energy!
You can work full time and still have a productive writing life. Many writers waste time waiting for the day they can finally quit their day jobs and live the so-called writing dream. Don’t wait. You can do both – and your writing will be...
by Sherry Peters
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
There is no magical trick to writing. Writing itself isn’t hard. Persisting at it, completing a story, pursuing a career as a writer is.
The distractions and self-doubt get in our way. It doesn’t have to be that way.
We are the architects of our own success. Our writing lives are...
Start to Write: Break Free from Rules, Overcome Your Fear, and Start Writing Today
Step-by-Step Guides for Growing Writers, #2
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
You want to write.
Maybe you leave story ideas on post-it notes all over the house (or your office, or your car, or stuck to your neighbor’s dog). You frantically whisper notes into your phone while you wait in line at the DMV. You might even schedule a four-hour block of time, set yourself...
by Leola Harlan Crosley
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2013
An Anthology of observational essays, Peace of Woods contains some philosophical, humorous, and heart-warming personal experiences from the author's life.
by Jeanne Van Wieren
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
And Then the Dog's Eyeball Fell Out is a collection of funny, thoughtful essays about "the very quirky very ordinary life" of Jeanne Van Wieren. The book looks at the life of a 60+ year old woman with wicked powers of observation. Subjects include emergency trips to the veterinary clinic,...
How to Be a Writer
Who Smashes Deadlines, Crushes Editors and Lives in a Solid Gold Hovercraft
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
'Beauty is good, but coin is better. You can't eat artistic integrity. It tastes like sawdust.' This gonzo guide is a lesson in the practicalities of writing: how to be productive, professional and maybe one day even pay the rent. Topics covered include 'How to slay writer's block', 'What the hell...
Writers on Writing: Volume 1
Writers on Writing, #1
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2015
Learn the craft of writing from those who know it best.
This is Writers On Writing – An Author’s Guide, where your favorite authors share their secrets in the ultimate guide to becoming – and being – an author.
In this first volume you’ll find in-depth essays from authors...
Fiction Unboxed
How Two Authors Wrote and Published a Book in 30 Days, From Scratch, In Front of the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Part hero’s journey, part crash course in storytelling by the modern mavericks of indie publishing, and the bestselling authors of Write. Publish. Repeat., Fiction Unboxed offers something that’s never been offered before: a naked look into two writer’s process, as they wrote and published a...
by Ramachandran Ananthakrishnan
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Are you an individual who dreams of seeing your name in PRINT as an author of a book? Are you looking for help so that you can get to see your name in print as an AUTHOR? Are you interested in simple tips that help you publish your own book? If your answer is yes to even one question above, then this...
How We Made Our First Million on Kindle
The Shelfless Book
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
We sold 347 eBooks in January of 2011. In just six months, by July 2011, we were selling 65,000 eBooks a month. From that modest beginning, by 2011s end, we had sold over 400,000 eBooks. This book will give you the details on how we did that and built a seven-figure indie publishing house in just...
Writing What You Know
How to Turn Personal Experiences into Publishable Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
It's easy for people to write about their feelings in a journal. It's more difficult, however, to convert personal experiences into stories worthy of publication-fiction, non-fiction, or poetry. Filled with engaging exercises, Write from Life guides writers in identifying story-worthy material and...
The Silent Woman
Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
In an astonishing feat of literary detection, one of the most provocative critics of our time and the author of In the Freud Archives and The Purloined Clinic offers an elegantly reasoned meditation on the art of biography. In The Silent Woman, Janet Malcolm examines the biographies of Sylvia Plath...
by William Noble
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"Why does nonfiction have to be boring," he sniveled. "It doesn't," she replied cheeringly. "Haven't you ever read anything by Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe, John McPhee, Joan Didion, Norman Mailer, Mark Bowden, Laura Hillenbrand, or Sebastian Junger-just to name a few?" "No," he said popping open another long-neck...