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A cup of inspiration, a dash of understanding, and a generous serving of wisdom for writers new and old. From the desk of writer and editor Deborah J. Ross comes a collection of warm, insightful essays on the writing life:  including getting started, negotiating with the Idea Fairy and creating...

For those who wish to see how a short story goes from outline to short story, this echapbook presents the outline for, and the completed short Liaden story, "The Space at Tinsori Light," with an explanatory foreword by Sharon Lee.

This ebook provides all you need to know about how to teach students how to writer about their life or how to teach yourself how to write about your life. The writing composed using the diverse activities in this e-workbook will form the basis of the life writing piece. Each activity can be completed...

Poet Kim Barnes grew up in northern Idaho, in the isolated camps where her father worked as a logger and her mother made a modest but comfortable home for her husband and two children. Their lives were short on material wealth, but long on the riches of family and friendship, and the great sheltering...

This touching and direct personal essay about a father’s struggle with ageing and alcohol, and reflections on a daughter’s teen pregnancy, was anthologized in Slice Me Some Truth: An Anthology of Canadian creative nonfiction.

Deeply honest and deeply personal, Downey's observations are laced with quirky insights and self-deprecating humor. She draws inspiration from the flu, the garden, bad knees and bad TV. She explores larger themes of loss and estrangement, while retaining a youthful outlook on the vagaries of...

Ring Lardner has been one of America's most popular short story writers for nearly a century and here is his guide for any budding writers. This classic work was originally published in 1924 and is now being republished here with a brand new introductory biography of the author.

An exploration of Life from the award-winning author of the “Gathering The Dreamcatchers” companion novels Living In Secret, Esoterica, The Skin of Water: Defending The Dreamcatchers, and Paradise Found, numerous Green Flame Omnimedia slims (After Titanic, America The Beautiful, Time of The Bear,...

Like most people in the Western hemisphere, I have spent a lifetime discovering that where you get to live & call "home" has a lot to do with how much money you have...have access to...and earn. And certainly being able to consistently afford a roof over my head (plus varying amounts...

Greg Young: for decades, always moving, always moving on. Traveler, seeker, escape artist: from or to Texas, the Navy, Seattle, India, NYC, Korea, Honolulu, Germany. Passionately into stonework, surfing, alcohol, drumming, meditation, THC, teaching, Santeria. Fits and starts; restarts. Countless departures,...

“Reading with Amber Kitty” is the book “The Dome,” re-published with the new title. The need to change the title of the novel was brewing, and it’s done. “The Dome is a collection of notes, moving for cat-lovers and interesting for esoterics.” (Jim Dixon, goodreads.com) Previously web-published...

The Secret to Good Writing When asked by the Paris Review what compelled him to rewrite the ending of A Farewell to Arms 39 times, Ernest Hemingway replied, "Getting the words right." His answer echoes what every successful writer knows: The secret to all good writing is revision. For...

This is one of those "Getting to know the author" things, or more accurately, "Getting to know the author as a feral eight to eleven year old" (or even, "Getting to be thankful you never had the misfortune of meeting the author as a feral eight to eleven-or-more year old"). Whatever the case, my associates...

Agapito aprendió en carne propia y con muchos golpes lo que se mueve en el mundo de las agencias de seguridad privada en Tijuana. Su relato es una denuncia a la vez que una extraña aventura. No es que él se lo buscara sino que las circunstancias se fueron dando casi automáticamente. La imagen...