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| Secrets of the Professional Writer | | by: Richard Mann | Let a grizzled old pro writer explain the hard-won tricks of the trade in this light-hearted but immensely practical guide to successful writing of any kind. Learn more... |


| | | THE WRITER
You'll find tools, information, and encouragement to help you write your best and publish more.
| Get Organized, Get Published! : 225 Ways to Make Time for Success
Aslett and Cartaino offer advice on creating a writing agenda and a "getting published action plan."
| Insider's Guide to Getting Published : Why They Always Reject Your Manuscript and What You Can Do About It
Written by one of the most successful agents and packagers in the book publishing industry, The Insider's Guide to Getting Published is a look at everything an aspiring writer needs to know to jump-start a career as a successful author.
| Christian Writers' Market Guide 2002 : The Reference Tool for the Christian Writer (Christian Writers' Market Guide)
The Christian writer's first step to meeting their personal publishing goals. This new guide is just the thing to put your writing into high gear.
| 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.
| The Creative Writer's Companion : Selling Your Ideas to Movies, Books, Electronic Media, and More
Get the inside tract to packaging and selling your work.
| 2002 Writers Market
Find the markets that want to pay you for what you write. Every writer needs it; that's why it's the best-selling writing title each and every year.
| 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...
| 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
| 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.
| Writers Digest
Writer's Digest Writer's Digest is the world's leading magazine for writers. Each monthly issue is filled with expert instruction, inspiration, and information on every aspect of the writing life — from how to target manuscripts and captivate editors, to effectively overcome writer's block and negotiate fees.
| Creative Nonfiction
Creative Nonfiction Creative Nonfiction is the only literary magazine that focuses exclusively on the genre of creative nonfiction. It includes essays, memoirs, profiles, and book reviews, as well as interviews with prominent writers and commentary about the genre.
| The Forest for the Trees : An Editor's Advice to Writers
There are so many books by writers and agents promising to disclose what editors really want here, finally, is one straight from the source.
| Poemcrazy : Freeing Your Life With Words
Anne Lammont says,"This is a wonderful book, smart, wide-eyed, joyful, helpful, inspiring. You're going to love it and love writing poetry more for having read it."
| 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.
| 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 cen
| 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.
| 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.
| 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.
| On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
William Zinsser's On Writing Well should be required reading. Simplicity is Zinsser's mantra: he preaches a stripped-down writing style, strong and clear.
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