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Selected great books and magazines will propel you to
publishing and writing success. Find great anthologies.
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Writers Digest
Specific advice on how
to write and sell magazine and newspaper articles, novels and nonfiction
books, plays, poetry, scripts--anything involving the written word.
Along with in-depth profiles of successful writers, regular departments
detail and crafts of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and scriptwriting; the
ins and outs of writing on computers and submitting manuscripts
electronically; and the necessity of proper trademark usage. The
publication provides writers with information, instruction and
inspiration on every aspect of the writing life.
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God Allows U-Turns:Stories of Hope and Healing
These stories poignantly
express the way faith in God is expressed in the every day aspects of
living. One hundred stories to show that anyone can have a better life.
Touching and controversial subjects will keep you turning pages.
1,818 Ways to Write
Better & Get Published
A concise point-blank instructional book perfect for those of us who need
step-by-step guidance and instruction on writing better. Includes chapters on
overcoming writer's block and ways to find the right agent for your work. I
highly recommend this one for the beginning or seasoned writer.
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Telling Stories: An Anthology for Writers
Oates teaches creative
writing at Princeton, and she uses many of the stories, prose pieces, and
poems collected in Telling Stories as material for her writing workshops.
Among the nearly 100 authors included in the volume are Anton Chekhov and
Lydia Davis, Ovid and Angela Carter, H. P. Lovecraft and Stephen King, Gish
Jen and Thom Jones. A rich stew it is indeed, and a terrific jumping-off
place for those writers who wish, as Oates recommends, "to read widely, to
read with enthusiasm, to read for pleasure, to read with an eye for
another's craft." --Jane Steinberg
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The Literary Agent's Guide to Getting Published And Making Money from Your
Writing
Filled with advice from
editors, agents and publishers, The Literary Agent's Guide to Getting
Published shows you how to transition from writing for yourself to writing
for profit. I hope it does as much for your writing career as it has done
for the many authors who have used it.
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Write the Perfect Book Proposal, Ten That Sold and Why
Want to publish your book?
Learn how—it’s easier than you think! Charismatic authors and literary
agents Jeff Herman and Deborah Levine Herman have successfully sold hundreds
of titles and learned—through trial and error—how to write a flawless book
proposal that publishers...
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THE WRITER
You'll find tools,
information, and encouragement to help you write your best and publish more.
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2004 Writer's Market Find the
markets that want to pay you for what you write. the best-selling writing
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Bird by Bird
Think you've got a book
inside of you? Anne Lamott isn't afraid to help you let it out. She'll help
you find your passion and your voice, beginning from the first really crummy
draft to the peculiar letdown of publication. Readers will be reminded of
the energizing books of writer Natalie Goldberg...
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Writing Down The Bones
Wherein we discover that
many of the "rules" for good writing and good sex are the same: Keep your
hand moving, lose control, and don't think. Goldberg brings a touch of both
Zen and well... *eroticism* to her writing practice, the latter in exercises
and anecdotes designed to ease you into your body, your whole spirit, while
you create, the former in being where you are, working with what you have,
and writing from the moment
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Master Class
West re-creates his last
writing seminar, filled with wonderful conversation, deep insight into the
creative spirit, and terrific tips for good writing.
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A Newbery Halloween
More enchanting than scary,
the anthology includes short stories by Newbery Medal winners, Beverly
Cleary, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Paul Fleischman, and E. L. Konigsburg. The
strong story lines and vivid language make wonderful stories to be read
aloud.
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The Art of the Personal Essay : An Anthology from the Classical Era to
The first anthology to
celebrate this fertile genre. By presenting more than seventy-five personal
essays, including influential forerunners from ancient Greece, Rome, and the
Far East, masterpieces from the dawn of the personal essay in the sixteenth
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Sarah Orne Jewett : Novels and Stories
Chicago Tribune: An
incandescence of humanity ... [and] descriptions so sharply etched you want
to put them in your pocket like magic pebbles.
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Shakespearean Detectives
In their ingenious tales,
the likes of Falstaff and Hamlet, as well as the Bard himself, are set in
hot pursuit of fresh clues and new solutions to some of the bloodiest plots
and nastiest deeds hidden in Shakepeare's plays. Featuring Lawrence Schimel.
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