Fiction Writing
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Painting the Past: A Guide for Writing Historical Fiction
$12.99 Add to cartDo you want to write historical fiction?
Join Meredith Allard, the executive editor of The Copperfield Review, the award-winning literary journal for readers and writers of historical fiction, as she
- Author: Allard, Meredith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: January 22 2021
- ISBN10: 0578846772
- Language: English
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The Writer’s Field Guide to the Craft of Fiction
$24.95 Add to cartThe Writers Field Guide to the Craft of Fiction offers a refreshing approach to the craft of fiction writing. It takes a single page from forty contemporary novels and short stories, identifies techni… [more below]
- Author: Noll, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: February 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0998518417
- Language: English
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The Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms
$24.95 Add to cartWithin the recent explosion of creative nonfiction, a new type of form is quietly emerging, what Brenda Miller calls “hermit crab essays.” The Shell Game is an anthology of these intriguing essays tha
- Author: Adrian, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: April 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0803296762
- Language: English
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Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook: Hands-On Help for Making Your Novel Stand Out and Succeed
$19.99 Add to cartMake Your Novel Stand Out from the Crowd
Noted literary agent and author Donald Maass has done it again His previous book, Writing the Breakout Novel, offered novelists of all skill levels and genre- Author: Maass, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: June 01 2004
- ISBN10: 158297263X
- Language: English
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How To Write A Historical Novel And Love It
$12.99 Add to cartUnlock your inner historical novelist…
Got a historical novel inside you desperate to get out? Discover the tactics and methods to bring it into the world.
Award-winning, best-selling author, TL Clar
- Author: Clark, Tl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0995611777
- Language: English
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Activate: a thesaurus of actions & tactics for dynamic genre fiction
$30.99 Add to cartFiction is action. Activate is an author’s thesaurus of dramatic possibilities that will galvanize your characterization and dramatization. Verbalizing any narrative requires specific juicy language w
- Series: Live Wire Writer Guides
- Author: Suede, Damon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 792
- Publish Date: April 16 2019
- ISBN10: 1945043059
- Language: English
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One Writer’s Beginnings
$18.00 Add to cartFeaturing a new introduction, this updated edition of the New York Times bestselling classic by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author and one of the most revered figures in American le… [more below]
- Author: Welty, Eudora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1982152109
- Language: English
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Reaching Inside: 50 Acclaimed Authors on 100 Unforgettable Short Stories
$28.95 Read moreA moving and inspiring anthology of masterful essays on stories that touch the hearts and minds of readers.
“A writer,” Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow once said, “is a reader who is moved to emulatio- Author: Dubus, Andre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1567927696
- Language: English
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Stein on Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies
$22.00 Add to cartStein on Writing provides immediately useful advice for all writers of fiction and nonfiction, whether they are newcomers or old hands, students or instructors, amateurs or professionals. As the alway… [more below]
- Author: Stein, Sol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 25 2000
- ISBN10: 0312254210
- Language: English
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I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home
$17.99 Add to cartNamed a Best Book of the Year by: Time * New Yorker * Sunday Times (UK)
From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling memoir about unlocking and embracing her creativity–and h
- Author: Attenberg, Jami
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 006303980X
- Language: English
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Land of the Dead: Lessons from the Underworld on Storytelling and Living
$27.99 Read moreFrom Brian McDonald, an expert on the narrative arts, comes a remarkable non-fiction graphic novel about the art of storytelling.
There is wisdom in the land of the dead, for it is the place that all s- Author: McDonald, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 1626727317
- Language: English
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Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish
$18.99 Add to cart- Series: Write Great Fiction Series
- Author: Bell, James Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: October 06 2004
- ISBN10: 158297294X
- Language: English
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How Fiction Works (Tenth Anniversary Edition): Updated and Expanded
$19.00 Add to cart10th anniversary revised edition with new Introduction
James Wood’s How Fiction Works is a scintillating study of the magic of fiction–an analysis of its main elements and a celebration of its lasti- Author: Wood, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1250183928
- Language: English
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The Art of Revision: The Last Word
$15.00 Add to cartThe fifteenth volume in the Art of series takes an expansive view of revision–on the page and in life
In The Art of Revision: The Last Word, Peter Ho Davies takes up an often discussed yet frequently- Series: Art Of…
- Author: Davies, Peter Ho
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1644450399
- Language: English
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Ernest Hemingway on Writing
$17.99 Add to cartA collection of reflections on writing and the nature of the writer from one the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
Throughout Hemingway’s career as a writer, he maintained that it was bad- Author: Phillips, Larry W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 06, 1999
- ISBN10: 0684854295
- Language: English
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How to Write a Mystery: A Handbook from Mystery Writers of America
$19.99 Add to cartFrom 70 of the most successful mystery writers in the business, an invaluable guide to crafting mysteries–from character development and plot to procedurals and thrillers–“this is a writing guide th… [more below]
- Author: Mystery Writers of America
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1982149442
- Language: English
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Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club
$18.99 Read moreWinner of the H.R.F. Keating Award for best biographical/critical book related to crime fiction, and nominated for the Edgar Allen Poe and Macavity Awards for Best Critical/Biographical book.
Ninety c
- Author: Edwards, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0008380163
- Language: English
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The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators
$32.99 Read moreWinner of four major prizes for the best critical/biographical book related to crime fiction: the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and H.R.F. Keating Awards; and shortlisted for both the Agatha and Gold Dagg
- Author: Edwards, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0008192421
- Language: English
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The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts
$19.00 Add to cartIn this exhilarating celebration of human ingenuity and perseverance–published all around the world–a trailblazing Italian scholar sifts through our cultural and social behavior in search of the ori
- Author: Ferrara, Silvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 125086299X
- Language: English
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Shut Up and Write the Book: A Step-by-Step Guide to Crafting Your Novel from Plan to Print
$14.99 Add to cartWriting a book can be daunting, but it doesn’t have to be.
Are you struggling to finish, or even start your novel? Are you overwhelmed by the many steps in the writing process, drowning in endless draf
- Author: Moreci, Jenna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0999735284
- Language: English
