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by John Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Congratulations!
You’ve self-published the book you always wanted to write.
What’s more it has a great cover, a killer blurb and even a couple of reviews (from your friends)...
...but no-one seems to find it, let alone buy it.
It seems an uphill struggle of constant...
How to Use MailChimp for Beginners
The Indie Author's Guide to Email Marketing
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2018
As an indie author you may have heard a thing or two about starting an email list. But what if you're not sure where to start? Nowadays there are so many options available to you--AWeber, Constant Contact, iContact, Vertical Response and so many others--but one of the most popular is MailChimp.
If...
Light the Dark
Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
**A stunning masterclass on the creative process, the craft of writing, and the art of finding inspiration from Stephen King, Elizabeth Gilbert, Amy Tan, Khaled Hosseini, Roxane Gay, Neil Gaiman, and more of the most acclaimed writers at work today
"For artists in need of a creative fix,...
by Ali Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
“A stimulating combination of literary criticism, essay, and fiction” (The New Yorker) from the incomparable Ali Smith
Artful is a celebration of literature’s worth in and to the world—it is about the things art can do, the things art is made of, and the quicksilver nature of all artfulness....
Why We Write About Ourselves
Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
In the voices of twenty landmark memoirists—including New York Times bestselling authors Cheryl Strayed, Sue Monk Kidd, and Pat Conroy—a definitive text on the craft of autobiographical writing, indispensable for amateur and professional writers alike.
For readers of Mary Karr’s The Art...
by Den Warren
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
Some notes on writing Christian fiction from a speculative fiction writer for those currently writing about Christian topics or for the Christian market.
by Monica Lavin
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 7, 2014
A solas, con la luz suficiente se disfruta completamente la lectura. No hay nada peor que leer por obligación, porque es la tarea, porque ¡tienes que hacerlo! Leer es como escuchar música: solo lo que a ti te guste y en el momento que tú elijas. Además, tómalo como pasatiempo o distracción...
Words Without Borders
The World Through the Eyes of Writers: An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Featuring the work of more than 28 writers from upwards of 20 countries, this collectiontransports us to the frontiers of twenty-first century literature.
In these pages, some of the most accomplished writers in world literature–among them Edwidge Danticat, Ha Jin, Cynthia Ozick,...
The N00bz
New adventures in literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Change your tools for storytelling, change your routine, learn a new form, engage with parts of the wider industry you have never had to previously. See what happens and report back. This was the challenge taken up by contributors to The N00bz: New adventures in literature, a joint project between...
The Things That Matter
What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
She felt rather inclined just for a moment to stand still after all that chatter, and pick out one particular thing; the thing that mattered . . .
—Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse
An illuminating exploration of how seven of the greatest English novels of the nineteenth...
by K.G. Deloas
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
On Thursday, September 8th, 2011, at 3:38 pm, the lights went out.
Zap.
Just like that.
The power outage stretched from south Orange County to as far east as Arizona’s Yuma, digging well south into Mexico. It affected seven million people.
Authorities raced to restore...
by John Walters
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2013
Inspiration and insight for writers. Includes: "Getting Out There", "Staying Put", "Step By Step", "Endings", "On Exercise", "Reality Check", "The New Hack Writers", and "The Lepers of Literature".
by Kit Peek
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
Having launched my debut novel Bad Day in Byzantium upon an unsuspecting world, I took a break from congratulatory champagne sipping to contemplate the path I’d blazed to inevitable success. Did I and other luminaries of the literary world share similar masterful and innate writing techniques? So...
by Sarah Boxer
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2008
“What are you working on?”
“An anthology of blogs.”
“I didn’t know you had a blog.”
“I don’t. It’s an anthology of other people’s blogs.”
“How do you find good blogs?”
“I read. I surf. I look at blog contests. I follow links. I ask people about the blogs they like.”
“Is...