Writing
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Concise Guide to Technical and Academic Writing
$9.95 Add to cartTechnical and academic writing share one thing in common: they present focused information to a targeted audience to accomplish a specific purpose. Technical and academic writing can be, and need to b… [more below]
- Author: Bowman, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: October 15 2013
- ISBN10: 098850782X
- Language: English
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The First Five Pages: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile
$17.99 Add to cartIF 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 is often a frustrating reality. Literary agents… [more below]- Author: Lukeman, Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 20 2000
- ISBN10: 068485743X
- Language: English
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Writing Successful Self-Help and How-To Books
$18.95 Add to cartIf you follow only a third of Jean’s advice, you’ll have a successful book. –Jeremy Tarcher, Publisher Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc.
“”After Jean reworked my first draft, paperback rights sold for $137,000- Series: Wiley Books for Writers
- Author: Stine, Jean Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0471037397
- Language: English
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Help! for Writers: 210 Solutions to the Problems Every Writer Faces
$21.99 Add to cartThe craft of writing offers countless potential problems: The story is too long; the story’s too short; revising presents a huge hurdle; writer’s block is rearing its ugly head.
In Help! For Writers,- Author: Clark, Roy Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0316126705
- Language: English
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The New Oxford Guide to Writing
$23.99 Add to cartMany books on writing tell you how to think more creatively, how to conjure up an idea from scratch. Many, once you have an idea, show you how to express it clearly and elegantly. And many handbooks o… [more below]
- Author: Kane, Thomas S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 27 2009
- ISBN10: 0195090594
- Language: English
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A Mollusk Without a Shell: Essays on Self-Care for Writers
$16.95 Add to cartA Mollusk Without a Shell: Essays on Self-Care for Writers offers multiple perspectives and vital insights on caring for the artist behind the creative work. Julie Brooks Barbour and Mary Biddinger ha… [more below]
- Series: Akron Contemporary Poetics
- Author: Brooks Barbour, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 91
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1629222798
- Language: English
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Wish I Was Here
$26.99 Read moreBOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN, THE OBSERVER (LONDON), GRANTA, AND TLS
One of our greatest and most original living writers sets out the perils of the writing life with joyful provocation in this “a- Author: Harrison, M. John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1668063042
- Language: English
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Sid Meier’s Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games
$27.95 Read moreOver his four-decade career, Sid Meier has produced some of the world’s most popular video games, including Sid Meier’s Civilization, which has sold more than 51 million units worldwide and accumulate
- Author: Meier, Sid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1324005874
- Language: English
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The Author’s Checklist: An Agent’s Guide to Developing and Editing Your Manuscript
$17.95 Add to cartAn Indispensable Guide for All Writers in All Genres
The bad news: even really good manuscripts have weak spots that are enough to garner rejections from agents and publishers. The good news: most of… [more below]- Author: Kracht, Elizabeth K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1608686620
- Language: English
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The Art of Writing: Lu Chi’s Wen Fu
$16.00 Add to cartWritten in the third century, this is one of the earliest Chinese works about the use of language, preceded only by the Ta Hsueh (Great Learning) of Confucius. Written by Lu Chi, a soldier-poet, the W
- Author: Lu Chi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: August 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1571314121
- Language: English
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Everyday Letters for Busy People: Hundreds of Samples You Can Adapt at a Moment’s Notice
$24.95 Read moreHere are hundreds of tips, techniques, and samples that will help you create the perfect letter (or e-mail!) no matter what the occasion or circumstance, no matter how little time you have.A phone cal… [more below]
- Author: May, Debra Hart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 15 2003
- ISBN10: 1564147126
- Language: English
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The Writer’s Process Workbook
$14.95 Add to cartIf you want to be a better writer, stop focusing on the words and take a good look at your process using this interactive workbook.
Writing isn’t a talent, it’s a process with many phases. You may be s
- Author: Janzer, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1952284082
- Language: English
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The Creativity of the Crisis
$18.00 Add to cartIt is sometimes proclaimed that crises generate creative powers. An idea to consider, beyond the banal advertising or entrepreneurial statements about the fruitful nature of crises (political, social,
- Author: Grossman, Évelyne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: September 04 2023
- ISBN10: 194062553X
- Language: English
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Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft
$19.00 Add to cartIn this long-awaited sequel to her bestselling books Writing Down the Bones and Wild Mind, Natalie Goldberg, one of the most sought-after writing teachers of our time, takes us to the next step in the… [more below]
- Author: Goldberg, Natalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 30 2001
- ISBN10: 0553374966
- Language: English
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The Art of Creative Nonfiction: Writing and Selling the Literature of Reality
$18.95 Add to cartA complete guide to the art and craft of creative nonfiction-from one of its pioneer practitioners
The challenge of creative nonfiction is to write the truth in a style that is as accurate and informat… [more below]- Series: Wiley Books for Writers
- Author: Gutkind, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0471113565
- Language: English
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The Art of X-Ray Reading: How the Secrets of 25 Great Works of Literature Will Improve Your Writing
$16.99 Add to cartRoy Peter Clark, one of America’s most influential writing teachers, offers writing lessons we can draw from 25 great texts.
Where do writers learn their best moves? They use a technique that Roy Pet- Author: Clark, Roy Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0316282146
- Language: English
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Tricks of the Trade: How to Think about Your Research While You’re Doing It
$17.00 Add to cartDrawing on more than four decades of experience as a researcher and teacher, Howard Becker now brings to students and researchers the many valuable techniques he has learned. Tricks of the Trade will … [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Becker, Howard S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 239
- Publish Date: January 19 1998
- ISBN10: 0226041247
- Language: English
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Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences
$18.99 Add to cartA delightfully offbeat history of the art and science of sentence diagramming by a veteran copyeditor and writer. Grumpy grammarians, crossword-puzzle aficionados, and lovers of language will apprecia… [more below]
- Author: Florey, Kitty Burns
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 05 2007
- ISBN10: 0156034433
- Language: English
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How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them–A Misstep-By-Misstep Guide
$19.99 Add to cart“What do you think of my fiction book writing?” the aspiring novelist extorted.
“Darn,” the editor hectored, in turn. “I can not publish your novel! It is full of what we in the business call ‘really
- Author: Mittelmark, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0061357952
- Language: English
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The Book Bible: How to Sell Your Manuscript–No Matter What Genre–Without Going Broke or Insane
$14.99 Read moreA Brilliant, Buoyant Guide to Publishing Your Book
Hundreds of thousands of books come out every year worldwide. So why not yours? In The Book Bible, New York Times bestseller and wildly popular Manha… [more below]- Author: Shapiro, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1510762701
- Language: English
