Authorship category: 1257 books
Write Your Book Now
A Proven System to Start and FINISH the Book You've Always Wanted to Write!
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Ideal for aspiring authors who only dream of actually finishing their works in progress, this guide features proven, field-tested tools guaranteed to successfully complete that romance, expert guide to business success, or great American novel. The chapters simplify the writing process by breaking it...
Fast-Draft Your Memoir
Write Your Life Story in 45 Hours
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2018
**This is your roadmap for completing the memoir you've dreamed about writing. **
"Rachael Herron resonates with our audience, and not just because she knows her stuff—she does—or because she's hilarious—she is—but because her honesty and earnestness come through in all her messaging."...
Make a Real Living as a Freelance Writer
How To Win Top Writing Assignments
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
Step-by-step instructions on how writers can earn top dollar writing for magazines are provided in this book. Secrets are revealed about what the high-paying magazines really want, how to build relationships with editors, how to ascertain which sections of a magazine are open to freelancers, what...
by Lawrence Block
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Lawrence Block, the award-winning crime fiction author, is almost as well known for his instructional books for writers, and contributed a monthly column on fiction to Writers Digest for 14 years. WRITING THE NOVEL was his first book for writers, and remained continuously in print since its original...
Writing Historical Fiction
viewing the past through the lens of the present
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
"Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it." George Santayana. Writing historical fiction involves more than taking a story and substituting carriages for cars. The historical novelist must do her best to understand the mindset of the people she writes about, even while...
The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Beating Writer's Block
Blast Through Blocks and Jump-Start Your Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
"Write it off, work it out, get it done." An eminently practical guide to getting unblocked and writing again, "The Pocket Idiotas Guidea to Beating Writeras Block" includes dozens and dozens of tips, exercises, prompts, and more that will get the creative juices flowing. From...
by D. Scott Apel
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
"A very impressive must-read for serious PKD readers...I literally could not put this book down. Reading the interview, you get the uncanny sensation that you're sitting in the room rapping with PKD himself." --Science Fiction Chronicle. This exceptional anthology includes over eight hours...
by Richard Lung
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
A gentle and generous soul, with a quiet and sunny disposition, well liked by many, and more radical than most, a deeply serious human being, with an over-worked conscience, who I once told was a monster of honesty.This was Dorothy, the solace of the friendless, the maker, who made a maker out of...
by JC Simmons
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2014
Scholars, Historians, students, and readers will learn much from Ernest Miller Hemingway: A Workbook. Carlos Baker, Hemingway’s biographer said of the manuscript, “It is a wonderful and informative collection of Hemingway scholarship,” and gave the work its title. Hemingway’s majordomo in...
One Word
Contemporary Writers on the Words They Love or Loathe
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
“A sublime anthology” of essays, memoirs, stories and careful considerations from 66 writers riffing on a single word (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
In this darb collection, Molly McQuade asks the question all writers love to answer: what one word means the most to you, thrills you, or...
Authorial Ethics
How Writers Abuse Their Calling
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Authorial Ethics is a normative study that deals with the many ways in which writers abuse their commitment to truth and integrity. It is divided by academic discipline and includes chapters on journalism, history, literature, art, psychology, and science, among others. Robert Hauptman offers generalizations...
by Eric Lochridge
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
After Long Busyness: Interviews with Eight Heartland Poets compiles a series of interviews with poets who have a connection to South Dakota.Originally conducted for poet and editor Eric Lochridge's After Long Busyness: A Poetry Blog, the interviews reveal a surprisingly robust community...
The Everything Guide To Magazine Writing
From Writing Irresistible Queries to Landing Your First Assignment-all You Need to Build a Successful Career
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2007
A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
by Ed Cyzewski
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Are you interested in publishing a book, but unsure about your next step? Ed Cyzewski has been there, and he wrote this book for you. After publishing his first nonfiction book Ed Cyzewski's inbox was flooded with publishing questions from friends, family, and complete strangers. As his replies grew...