Writing Skills category: 1537 books

How can you get a subscription list of 20K or more? In only a few months? How do you retain those people once they're there? This book, by an author who's done just that, tells you how you can work with other authors to create promotions that can gain you hundreds of new subscribers...

This book shows you how to take timeless storytelling structures and make them immediate, now, for fiction that's universal in how it speaks to the reader's heart and contemporary in detail and impact. Each chapter includes brief excerpts and descriptions of fiction from many times, many genres -...

How to Blog a Book, Revised and Expanded Edition shows you how to plan a successful book that you can then blog into existence while building your platform and attracting potential publishers. Aspiring authors learn how to create a blogged book with a well-honed and uniquely angled subject, targeted posts, and a readership large enough to get noticed by an agent or a publisher.

Written from the perspective of a developmental editor advising an author with a newly completed book draft, this article details a step-by-step method for revising and editing novel-length fiction or creative/narrative nonfiction manuscripts. It is a holistic, integrated process that applies to writers at every skill level and at any stage of their project.

The second set of the 2YN classes takes you through the work of creating characters who will best represent what you want in your story. Included in this group is Creating Characters Who Work with You, Archetypes, Personality, Narrators and more.

Care about content? Better copy isn't enough. As devices and channels multiply—and as users expect to relate, share, and shift information quickly—we need content that can go more places, more easily. Content Everywhere will help you stop creating fixed, single-purpose content and start making it more future-ready, flexible, reusable, manageable, and meaningful wherever it needs to go.

Families often lose their histories through the generations, which may explain why genealogy — the process of trying to trace and recapture that history — is hugely popular. Learn how to preserve your precious family memories for future generations, whether you simply want to print a few copies on your computer or publish a hardcover book to sell to the general public

This remarkable "must have" book shows how to write personal letters for all occasions. A sense of humor helps provide invaluable guidance in remembering what to put in the letter.

SamEnrico provides publishers, authors and content creators with interactive appstore source codes, designs, API’s and easy to use publishing tools which lets them create downloadable eBooks, magazines and newspapers for sale within their own dedicated application(s), all configured for upload to...

102 Romance Prompts is a book to help inspire romance writers of all subgenres. From paranormal to contemporary, inside you will find ideas to help you form great scenes and stores full of romantic tension. Included with the prompts are chapters on subgenres, the language of flowers, English titles,...

In her first non-fiction book, Amazon bestselling author Amanda Clemmer shares her tips for bringing your novel to the next stage--whether that means publishing or simply having a finished draft of your masterpiece. Multiple options are discussed for the future of your book, and each chapter...

Edited by Ben BovaThis book is designed to give science fiction writers the background they need in real science to make their fiction read like fact. World Building is a blueprint in words, calculations, tables and diagrams to help writers transport readers from one world to another.With...

A walkthrough for Speculative Fiction writers, to help them create the framework of a world as quickly and effortlessly as possible, without getting lost in the murk of world building.

This is the final book of the Two Year Novel Course covering weeks 78 through 104. The final sections cover both traditional and indie material when it comes to publication with many additions from the original versions over a decade ago. Although originally listed as 9 books, the last two have been combined to make a reasonable length release.