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  • Escaping Into the Open

    The Art of Writing True

    Writing advice **from a New York Times–bestselling author who “knows how the publishing industry works . . . and why writers need to answer only to themselves” (C. Michael Curtis, senior editor, Atlantic Monthly).Both autobiography and primer*, Escaping into the Open* is an inspiring, practical handbook on the joys and challenges of the writing life. Renowned author and writing instructor ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Steering The Craft

    A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story

    From the celebrated Ursula K. Le Guin, "a writer of enormous intelligence and wit, a master storyteller" (Boston Globe), the revised and updated edition of her classic guide to the essentials of a writer's craft.Completely revised and rewritten to address modern challenges and opportunities, this handbook is a short, deceptively simple guide to the craft of writing.Le Guin lays out ten chapters ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Courage to Write

    How Writers Transcend Fear

    by Ralph Keyes ...
    The Courage to Write is an invaluable book and essential reading for anyone who wishes to learn how to write well.Katherine Anne Porter called courage "the first essential" for a writer. "I have to talk myself into bravery with every sentence," agreed Cynthia Ozick, "sometimes every syllable." E. B. White said he admired anyone who "has the guts to write anything at all."An author who has taught ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Writing to Learn

    How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All

    This is an essential book for everyone who wants to write clearly about any subject and use writing as a means of learning. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Talk to Me

    How to Ask Better Questions, Get Better Answers, and Interview Anyone Like a Pro

    by Dean Nelson ...
    “Dean Nelson is one of the best interviewers around.” —Anne LamottFrom respected journalist, professor, and founder of the Writer's Symposium by the Sea, an indispensable guide to the subtle art of the interview guaranteed to afford readers with the skills and confidence they need the next time they say, "talk to me."Interviewing is the single most important way journalists (and doctors, lawyers, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • The Midnight Disease

    The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain

    “An original, fascinating, and beautifully written reckoning . . . of that great human passion: to write.”—Kay Redfield Jamison, national bestselling author of An Unquiet MindWhy is it that some writers struggle for months to come up with the perfect sentence or phrase while others, hunched over a keyboard deep into the night, seem unable to stop writing? In The Midnight Disease, neurologist Alice ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Language of the Night

    Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

    Featuring a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-length collection of essays covers her background as a writer and educator, on fantasy and science fiction, on writing, and on the future of literary science fiction.“We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark; and fantasy, like poetry, speaks to the language of the night.” ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Literature Class, Berkeley 1980

    Translated by Katherine Silver ...
    A master class from the exhilarating writer Julio Cortázar“I want you to know that I’m not a critic or theorist, which means that in my work I look for solutions as problems arise.” So begins the first of eight classes that the great Argentine writer Julio Cortázar delivered at UC Berkeley in 1980. These “classes” are as much reflections on Cortázar’s own writing career as they are about ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • How To Write A Series

    A Guide to Series Types and Structure plus Troubleshooting Tips and Marketing Tactics

    by Sara Rosett ...
    Series Book 2 - Genre Fiction How To
    Struggling to structure your book series? Learn how to make a series work for you: increase reader engagement and take advantage of the built-in marketing potential a series gives you.Are you unsure which series structure is best for you? Or are you several books into a series, but you’re stuck? Do you want to expand your literary universe but aren’t sure how to do it? Perhaps you have a series ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression

    Second Edition

    Series Book 1 - Writers Helping Writers Series
    The bestselling Emotion Thesaurus, often hailed as “the gold standard for writers” and credited with transforming how writers craft emotion, has now been expanded to include 55 new entries!One of the biggest struggles for writers is how to convey emotion to readers in a unique and compelling way. When showing our characters’ feelings, we often use the first idea that comes to mind, and they end up ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Emotional Wound Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Psychological Trauma

    Series Book 6 - Writers Helping Writers Series
    Readers connect to characters with depth, ones who have experienced life’s ups and downs. To deliver key players that are both realistic and compelling, writers must know them intimately—not only who they are in the present story, but also what made them that way. Of all the formative experiences in a character’s past, none are more destructive than emotional wounds. The aftershocks of trauma can ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Save the Cat! Writes a Young Adult Novel

    The Ultimate Guide to Writing a YA Bestseller

    by Jessica Brody ...
    Series series Save the Cat!
    An indispensable guide in the bestselling Save the Cat! story structure series that reveals the 15 essential plot points needed to make any young adult novel a success, from an accomplished novelist and the author of Save the Cat! Writes a Novel.In Save the Cat! Writes a Young Adult Novel, prolific author and story coach Jessica Brody presents a comprehensive story structure guide for anyone who ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Second Edition

    How to Edit Yourself Into Print

    Hundreds of books have been written on the art of writing. Here at last is a book by two professional editors to teach writers the techniques of the editing trade that turn promising manuscripts into published novels and short stories.In this completely revised and updated second edition, Renni Browne and Dave King teach you, the writer, how to apply the editing techniques they have developed to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Write Like Hemingway

    Writing Lessons You Can Learn from the Master

    The bad news is: You have to learn to write. The good news is: Learning to write just became easier.In this book, writers learn to write like they were born that way from one of America’s greatest literary geniuses—Ernest Hemingway. Noted writing teacher Dr. R. Andrew Wilson calls writers to an adventure in writing Hemingway himself would love. Along the way they discover what really makes him a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Oxford Guide to Effective Argument and Critical Thinking

    How do you approach an essay or discussion question? How do you review what claims others have made and offer counter-claims? And how do you weigh up the strengths and weaknesses of your own argument before putting together a persuasive conclusion? This accessible book takes you step by step through the art of argument, from thinking about what to write and how you might write it, to how you may ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Into the Woods

    A Five-Act Journey Into Story

    by John Yorke ...
    An analysis of the fundamental narrative structure, why it works, the meanings of stories, and why we tell them in the first place.The idea of Into the Woods is not to supplant works by Aristotle, Lajos Egri, Robert McKee, David Mamet, or any other writers of guides for screenwriters and playwrights, but to pick up on their cues and take the reader on a historical, philosophical, scientific, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Plotto: The Master Book of All Plots

    by William Cook ...
    A classic how-to manual, William Wallace Cook's Plotto is one writer's personal theory--"Purpose, opposed by Obstacle, yields Conflict"--painstakingly diagrammed through hundreds of situations and scenariosA classic how-to manual, William Wallace Cook’s Plotto is one writer’s personal method, painstakingly diagrammed for the benefit of others. The theory itself may be simple—“Purpose, opposed by ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Wordslut

    A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

    “I get so jazzed about the future of feminism knowing that Amanda Montell’s brilliance is rising up and about to explode worldwide.”—Jill SolowayA brash, enlightening, and wildly entertaining feminist look at gendered language and the way it shapes us.The word bitch conjures many images, but it is most often meant to describe an unpleasant woman. Even before its usage to mean “a female canine,” ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Art of Memoir

    by Mary Karr ...
    Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash bestsellers: Cherry and Lit, which were critical hits as well.For thirty years Karr has also taught the form, winning teaching prizes at Syracuse. (The writing program there produced such acclaimed authors as Cheryl Strayed ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • How to Reread a Novel

    by Matthew Clark ...
    A novel is among the most intricate of human creations, the result of thousands of choices and decisions. In How to Reread a Novel, Matthew Clark explicates the intricacies of fiction writing through practical analysis of the resources of narration, demystifying some of the tools novelists use to build worlds.Drawing on classical philology, the rhetorical tradition, and recent approaches to ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Three Story Method: The Scene Archetype Handbook with ChatGPT Prompts

    Three Story Method, #1

    by J. Thorn ...
    Series Book 1 - Three Story Method
    100% money-back guarantee!If "Three Story Method: The Scene Archetype Handbook with ChatGPT Prompts" doesn't bust your writer's block, I'll give you your money back. Guaranteed.You don't need AI to use "The Scene Archetype Handbook," but you'll be amazed at how it can transform your storytelling skills.Bestselling author J. Thorn invites you into a realm where age-old storytelling wisdom collides ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 12 Birds to Save Your Life

    Nature's Lessons in Happiness

    Discover the healing power of nature through the stories of these characterful birds, whose song is never far away . . .LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE'A lyrical and life-affirming book that teaches us as much about birds as it does ourselves - a balm for the soul' Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path'Totally absorbing and completely engaging on so many levels . . . Charlie has opened my ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Memoir

    A History

    by Ben Yagoda ...
    From a critically acclaimed cultural and literary critic, a definitive history and analysis of the memoir.From Saint Augustine?s Confessions to Augusten Burroughs?s Running with Scissors, from Julius Caesar to Ulysses Grant, from Mark Twain to David Sedaris, the art of memoir has had a fascinating life, and deserves its own biography. Cultural and literary critic Ben Yagoda traces the memoir from ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • About Writing

    7 Essays, 4 Letters, 5 Interviews

    From the four-time Nebula Award–winning novelist and literary critic, essential reading for the creative writer.Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri’s Art of Dramatic Writing. Taking up specifics (When do flashbacks work, and when should you avoid them? How do you make characters both ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus