Fiction Writing
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Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel: The Complete Guide to Mystery, Suspense, and Crime
$17.99 Add to cartA Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award Finalist for Best Critical/Biographical Work
Discover the secrets to crafting an unforgettable mystery To piece together the puzzle of your mystery novel, y- Author: Ephron, Hallie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 13 2017
- ISBN10: 1440347166
- Language: English
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The Outlaw’s Journey: A Mythological Approach to Storytelling for Writers Behind Bars
$20.99 Add to cartYou live in a 6 x 8 foot cell. You’re watched 24 hours per day. You seldom get one moment to yourself to think a thought, take a leak, make a private phone call. You have little control over anything
- Author: Kempton, Gloria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: November 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1609441524
- Language: English
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American Sign Language Concise Dictionary: Revised Edition
$16.32 Add to cartA concise edition of “the most comprehensive and clearly written dictionary of sign language ever published.” —Los Angeles Times
Introducing the first revised edition to the original and most extensiv
- Author: Sternberg, Martin L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: November 16 1994
- ISBN10: 0062740105
- Language: English
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Let Me Tell You a Story
$19.95 Add to cartIn Let Me Tell You a Story, Tim Waggoner continues what he started in the Bram Stoker Award-winning Writing in the Dark (2020) and Writing in the Dark: The Workbook (2022), both of which focus on the
- Series: Writing in the Dark
- Author: Waggoner, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: October 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1947879642
- Language: English
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Blueprint for a Book
$18.99 Add to cartHow to write a novel in the most efficient way by tackling the hardest part before you start to write, from top book coach Jennie Nash
“This process makes me want to write, and it makes what I’m writin
- Author: Nash, Jennie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: September 01 2021
- ISBN10: 173325112X
- Language: English
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The Structure of Story: How to Write Great Stories by Focusing on What Really Matters
$34.99 Add to cartWhat do all great stories have in common? What techniques do great writers use? How do you take your writing to the next level?
There are no storytelling rules-but there are patterns. The Structure of
- Author: Hartmann, Ross
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: November 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1735603821
- Language: English
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This Year You Write Your Novel
$18.99 Add to cart“A straightforward, friendly guide for aspiring writers” (Los Angeles Times): No more excuses. With award-winning author Walter Mosley as your guide, you can write a novel now.
“Let the lawn get shagg… [more below]- Author: Mosley, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0316065498
- Language: English
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What about the Baby?: Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction
$17.00 Add to cartA collection of essays, lectures, and observations on the art of writing fiction from Alice McDermott, winner of the National Book Award and unmatched “virtuoso of language and image” (Rebecca Steinit
- Author: McDermott, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1250849225
- Language: English
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Being Michael Swanwick
$20.95 Add to cartIn 2001, Michael Swanwick published the book-length interview Being Gardner Dozois. Now Swanwick himself becomes the subject of inquiry. During a year of conversations, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (Traveler of
- Author: Zinos-Amaro, Alvaro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1958880140
- Language: English
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Writing Fiction for Dummies
$24.99 Add to cartA complete guide to writing and selling your novel
So you want to write a novel? Great That’s a worthy goal, no matter what your reason. But don’t settle for just writing a novel. Aim high. Write a n
- Series: For Dummies
- Author: Ingermanson, Randy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 01, 2009
- ISBN10: 0470530707
- Language: English
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The Craft of Scene Writing: Beat by Beat to a Better Script
$18.95 Add to cartA professional screenwriter’s master class in writing the most critical and challenging script element–the individual scene. No one comes out of a movie talking about structure. What audiences love a… [more below]
- Author: Mercurio, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1610353307
- Language: English
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The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes
$15.00 Add to cartFiction imagines for us a stopping point from which life can be seen as intelligible, asserts Joan Silber in The Art of Time in Fiction. The end point of a story determines its meaning, and one of the
- Series: Art Of…
- Author: Silber, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: June 23 2009
- ISBN10: 1555975305
- Language: English
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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
