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One of America's most influential writing teachers offers a toolbox from which writers of all kinds can draw practical inspiration. "Writing is a craft yo...

Craft your fiction with scene-by-scene flow, logic and readability.An imprisoned man receives an unexpected caller, after which "everything changed..."And ...

In the Extraordinary Business Book Club podcast, Alison Jones goes under the hood of successful business books to discover how they’re put together and ho...

A National Book Critics Circle Finalist for Criticism A deeply Malcolmian volume on painters, photographers, writers, and critics. Janet Malcolm's In the F...

This Reference Work Includes An Examination Of The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame's Selection Process, A Review Of The Annual Induction Ceremony, And Provides C...

A reissue of a classic work originally published in 1934 on writing and the creative process, Becoming a Writer recaptures the excitement of Dorothea Brand...

Build an Exceptional Plot, One Scene at a Time!Think of your favorite story--the one that kept you turning pages late into the night, the one with a plot so...

Neil White, a journalist and magazine publisher, wanted the best for those he loved nice cars, beautiful homes, luxurious clothes. He loaned money to fami...

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Draws On The Conversations And Experiences Of Students In The Author's Writing Class To Offer Practical Insights And Advice On The Craft Of Writing, Stressi...

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The Marvelously Compelling Biography Of Robert Ripley, The Enigmatic Cartoonist Turned Globetrotting Millionaire Who Won International Fame By Celebrating T...

It Is Often Said, Even By Critical Scholars Who Should Know Better, That Writing In The Name Of Another Was Widely Accepted In Antiquity. But Religion Schol...

How many people would kill to be a bestselling novelist? Especially one like Janet Evanovich.Writers want to know how a bestselling author thinks, writes, ...

Here is the riveting story of how a second-rate newspaper rose to national greatness, only to become a casualty of war-a civil war within the family that ow...

A GLOBE & MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR 2012 “Glover is a master of narrative structure.” —Wall Street Journal In the tradition of E.M. Forste...

From The Publisher: One Of America's Most Influential Writing Teachers Offers A Toolbox From Which Writers Of All Kinds Can Draw Practical Inspiration. Writ...

With grace and insight, celebrated writer bell hooks untangles the complex personae of women writers. Born and raised in the rural South, hooks learned earl...

A Cbs Reporter Reveals How She Has Been Electronically Surveilled While Digging Deep Into The Obama Administration And Its Scandals, And Offers An Incisive ...

Your dissertation is not a hurdle to jump or a battle to fight; as this handbook makes clear, your dissertation is the first of many destinations on the pat...

Here is a lovingly assembled, essential A-Z companion to Dorothy Dunnett’s brilliant Lymond Chronicles and the first five novels in the House of Niccolò s...

In Writing for the Soul, best-selling author Jerry B. Jenkins takes you on a personal and inspiring journey, imparting experience and wisdom gained from hi...

Beginnings -- Querencia -- Poetry Inside Us All -- Where Does Writing Hide? -- An Angel On My Shoulder -- Feng Shui -- Doing What I Have To -- Time-worlds -...

Contains A Reference To Authors And Illustrators Of Children's Literature And Includes Biographical Sketches, Photos, And Lists Of Resources That Profile Fo...

The act of reading is a miracle. Every new reader's brain possesses the extraordinary capacity to rearrange itself beyond its original abilities in order t...

The third in the Now Read This series, Pearl & Cords's guide briefly describes and organizes approximately 500 of the most popular and current contempor...

through Detailed Instruction And Examples From Contemporary Bestsellers And Classic Page-turners, This Book Delineates The Moral Continuum Of Protagonists A...

Originally Created To Help Writers And Editors At The Globe And Mail Present Clear, Accurate, And Concise Stories, This Comprehensive And Entertaining Style...

You never love a book the way you love a book when you are ten.Writing as Lemony Snicket, Daniel Handler has led several generations of young readers into t...

Working as a correspondent for 20/20 and Good Morning America, John Stossel confronted dozens of scam artists: from hacks who worked out of their basement...

During His Years As An Editor At The Big Five Publishing Houses, As An Independent Publisher, As A Literary Agent Both At A Major Hollywood Talent Agency An...

No More Excuses! Anyone Can Write A Novel, Novelist Mosley Advises, And In This Book Of Tips, Practical Advice, And Wisdom, He Promises That The Writer-in-w...

Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women, Per...

(Book). Here's the most contemporary music dictionary on the market! Conveniently divided into three main sections: The Dictionary of Music Terms defines ov...

From The Author Of The Bestselling The Professor And The Madman Comes The Fascinating Story Of William Smith, The Orphaned Son Of An English Country Blacksm...

When the Fifth Edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature appeared in 1985, it received a glowing front-page review in The New York Times Book Re...

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Dillard Describes The Working Life Of A Writer. She Probes And Exposes, Examines And Analyzes, As She Recounts What The Actual Process Of Writing Feels Like...

IF YOU'RE TIRED OF REJECTION, THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU. Whether you are a novice writer or a veteran who has already had your work published, rejection i...

This volume celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Philadelphia Orchestra. It describes some its most reknowned musical directors such as Stotowski and Mut...

From Homer to Plato, Thackeray to Kafka, Proust to Twain, Freud to Whitman--an introduction to more than 100 classics of Western literature and thought.Cate...

This is Henri Nouwen's "secret journal." It was written during the most difficult period of his life, when he suddenly lost his self-esteem, his energy to...

Need to find more time to write--without sacrificing the important things? Looking to consistently discover great book ideas? Wish you could generate a ste...

Join David and Leigh Eddings on a fascinating behind-the-scenes tour of the extensive background materials they compiled before beginning the masterpiece of...

What if everything we've been taught about learning to write was wrong? In The Right to Write, Julia Cameron, award-winning author of such national bestse...

This critically acclaimed memoir, now in paperback, tells the story of the woman who piloted The Washington Post through the stormy times related to the Pe...

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