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  • Where the Past Begins

    Memory and Imagination

    by Amy Tan ...
    From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir about finding meaning in life through acts of creativity and imagination. As seen on PBS American Masters "Unintended Memoir."In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan reveals the ways that our memories and personal experiences can inform our creative work. Drawing on her vivid ... Read more

    $11.29 USD $2.99 USD

  • Creating Character Arcs: The Masterful Author's Guide to Uniting Story Structure, Plot, and Character Development

    by K.M. Weiland ...
    Series Book 7 - Helping Writers Become Authors
    Powerful Character Arcs Create Powerful StoriesHave you written a story with an exciting concept and interesting characters—but it just isn’t grabbing the attention of readers or agents? It’s time to look deeper into the story beats that create realistic and compelling character arcs. Internationally published, award-winning novelist K.M. Weiland shares her acclaimed method for achieving memorable ... Read more

    $5.69 USD

  • What I Wish I'd Known: For Writers

    What I Wish I'd Known

    by H. D. Thomson, S.M. Anderson, Jennifer Ashley, Steven Barnes, Jeremy Bates, Louise Bay, D.V. Berkom, Hunter Blain, Marci Bolden, Rhys Bowen, Elizabeth Bromke, Benedict Brown, Rachelle Burk, V.M. Burns, Lynn Cahoon, Ginjer L Clarke, Nancy Coco, Michael Cordell, Charly Cox, B.J. Daniels, Vincent B. Davis II, Ernest Dempsey, Delaney Diamond, Helena Dixon, Angus Donald, Lorna Dounaeva, Kerrie Droban, Jacqueline Druga, Donna Everhart, Chris Fabry, Erin Flanagan, Matt Forbeck, Stacy Green, Ross Greenwood, Lisa Harris, Paul Heatley, Rita Herron, Kate Hewitt, Kelly Hodge, Dwight Holing, Griff Hosker, Daniel Hurst, Pamela Fagan Hutchins, Rick Jones, Diane Kelly, Meera Kothand, Justin Leslie, Julie Anne Lindsey, Kristen Luciani, S.E. Lynes, JB Lynn, Michelle Major, Phillip Margolin, T. B. Markinson, Angela Marsons, Tina Martin, M.D. Massey, Cheyenne McCray, Cathy McDavid, Rhonda McKnight, Bruno Miller, J.J. Miller, Christopher Mitchell, Kiersten Modglin, D. J. Molles, Mary Monroe, Lynn Morrison, Lisa Morton, Barbara Nickless, Nazri Noor, Peter O'Mahoney, Dan Padavona, Phaedra Patrick, Elizabeth Penney, Carly Phillips, Lisa Regan, David Ricciardi, Arianne Richmonde, Matthew Rief, Miranda Rijks, Dahlia Rose, Jenifer Ruff, Sofia Ryan, Sharon Sala, Pat Simmons, Joanna Campbell Slan, Miranda Smith, Jeff Strand, Jacquelin Thomas, Bill Thompson, Eric Thomson, Michael J. Tougias, G. G. Vandagriff, Tim Waggoner, Dan Walsh, Rochelle B. Weinstein, Sherri Winston, D.L. Wood, Melinda Woodhall, Pamela Samuels Young ...
    Series series What I Wish I'd Known
    As an aspiring or seasoned writer, do you feel like you aren't making headway, stumbling on what to write next, or wondering if you're even on the right path? Are you unable to find the motivation to charge up your computer and put your fingers on the keyboard after that last rejection?Between the pages of What I Wish I'd Known: For Writers, 100 highly accomplished authors share their time, energy ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Elements of Fiction Writing - Characters & Viewpoint

    Proven advice and timeless techniques for creating compelling characters by an a ward-winning author

    by Orson Scott Card ...
    Vivid and memorable characters aren't born: they have to be made.This book is a set of tools: literary crowbars, chisels, mallets, pliers and tongs. Use them to pry, chip, yank and sift good characters out of the place where they live in your memory, your imagination and your soul.Award-winning author Orson Scott Card explains in depth the techniques of inventing, developing and presenting ... Read more

    $12.19 USD

  • Writing to Learn

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

    by William Zinsser ...
    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

    $9.69 USD

  • Work Hard, Not Smart

    How to Make a Messy Literary Life

    by Alexis Paige ...
    ★★★★★ "Thoughtful, instructive, profoundly useful-not to mention spit-out-your-drink funny." Timothy J. Hillegonds, author of The Distance BetweenAt the ripe age of forty, when Alexis Paige was finally diagnosed with ADHD-Inattentive Type, she rolled her eyes even before the doctor could finish spelling out her new marching orders: "The goal now," he said, "is to learn how to work smart, not hard. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Living Out Loud

    by Vicki Geraghty, Ruth Morgan, Kathryn Kaye Spence ...
    Three women, strangers, set out for a writers' course in Paris.Ruth: 'To ponder a pestering dilemma through writing: Is it possible to enjoy a personal relationship at this stage of life, or will I devote my country life to tending my French garden, reading and writing? What must be compromised?Kaye: 'To spend time on creative writing, something I always wanted to do. It was a hidden desire. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD $0.99 USD

  • The Liar's Bible: A Good Book for Fiction Writers

    by Lawrence Block ...
    Five-time Edgar winner and MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block write a monthly column for Writers Digest Magazine for fourteen years. The Liar's Bible consists of previously uncollected columns, chosen to illuminate the often dimly-lit path of the writer of fiction.Here's what one reviewer said on Goodreads:"I am fascinated by the creative process and there are few excellent examples of this that I ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Telling Lies for Fun & Profit

    by Lawrence Block ...
    Characters refusing to talk? Plot plodding along? Where do good ideas come from anyway? In this wonderfully practical volume, two-time Edgar Award-winning novelist Lawrence Block takes an inside look at writing as a craft and as a career.From studying the market, to mastering self-discipline and "creative procrastination," through coping with rejections, Telling Lies for Fun & Profit is an ... Read more

    $11.29 USD

  • Write for Your Life

    by Lawrence Block ...
    Based on Lawrence Block's extremely popular seminar for writers. Discover Block's tips for overcoming writer's block and unleashing your creativity. ... Read more

    $12.19 USD

  • Spider, Spin Me A Web

    A Handbook For Fiction Writers

    by Lawrence Block ...
    The craft of writing is a lot like spinning a web: You take threads and weave them skillfully together, and only you know where this intricate network of twists and turns begin and how it will end. Now, with Lawrence Block's expert advice, you can learn this art of entrapping your reader in a maze of fascinating fiction.Spider, Spin Me a Web is the perfect companion volume to Block's previous book ... Read more

    $12.19 USD

  • Opacities

    On Writing and the Writing Life

    by Sofia Samatar ...
    Opacities is a book about writing, publishing, and friendship. Rooted in an epistolary relationship between Sofia Samatar and a friend and fellow writer, this collection of meditations traces Samatar's attempt to rediscover the intimacy of writingIn a series of compressed, dynamic prose pieces, Samatar blends letters from her friend with notes on literature, turning to Édouard Glissant to study ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Forged in Fire

    by Jade Eby ...
    We are all creative creatures who make sense of our experiences, feelings, and the world through creation. But what happens when what we've experienced or gone through is much too difficult to put down on the page?In 2017, trauma survivor, storytelling coach, and author Jade Eby set out to combine her two passions: trauma recovery and fiction writing.The result was a method of approaching the ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Amazon Decoded

    A Marketing Guide to the Kindle Store

    by David Gaughran ...
    Series Book 4 - Let's Get Publishing
    Want to sell more books on the world’s biggest retailer? Fancy Amazon doing the selling for you instead? Amazon Decoded: A Marketing Guide to the Kindle Store will show you how.* Learn what Visibility Marketing is and how understanding Amazon’s philosophy can boost your sales.* Discover the algorithms that really go into Sales Rank and dispel some remarkably common myths.* Decode the ways Amazon ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • 尋找故事開始的地方：故事點石成金30法，人人都能創造自己的成名作

    by 蔡淇華 ...
    全民寫故事時代來臨！如何找到創作者的大祕寶？重大細節法：有細才有戲，細節是所有故事的靈魂。意象故事法：產品再好，如果沒有一個意象來連結品牌故事，則很難讓受眾產生記憶點。AI故事法：沒有寫作基礎的人，只能被AI玩，不可能玩AI。30種故事法，任你活用變化！最強教學力蔡淇華老師，總計指導學生拿下700座以上文學獎，創下寫作教學書暢銷100,000本紀錄，首度公開「說故事」的關鍵要領。每個人一生中，都會有需要為自己、為他人，說個好故事的時候。在行銷、影片、文案、廣告及自媒體上，或擴及廣義的文字創作，我們都需要那打動人心的召喚力。只是，有人枯坐著硬擠文字等待靈感，有人順手取材快炒調味就端出一道好菜。說故事，是有方法可以學的。我們都聽過畢卡索的名言：「好的藝術家抄襲，偉大的藝術家偷竊。」伏爾泰說，創意只是審慎的模仿。故事為王，好的故事需要創意，但大... ... Read more

    $8.80 USD

  • The Conflict Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Obstacles, Adversaries, and Inner Struggles (Volume 2)

    by Becca Puglisi, Angela Ackerman ...
    Series Book 9 - Writers Helping Writers
    A story where the character gets exactly what they want doesn’t make for good reading. But add villainous clashes, lost advantages, power struggles, and menacing threats…well, now we have the makings of a page-turner. Conflict is the golden thread that binds plot to arc, providing the complications, setbacks, and derailments that make the character’s inner and outer journeys dynamic.Inside Volume ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Conflict Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Obstacles, Adversaries, and Inner Struggles (Volume 1)

    by Becca Puglisi, Angela Ackerman ...
    Series Book 8 - Writers Helping Writers
    Every story starts with a character who is motivated by a need and has a goal that can resolve it. Whether their objective is to find a life partner, bring a killer to justice, overthrow a cruel regime, or something else, conflict transforms a story premise into something fresh. Physical obstacles, adversaries, moral dilemmas, deep-seated doubts and personal struggles…these not only block a ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Writing the Novel from Plot to Print to Pixel

    by Lawrence Block ...
    Lawrence Block, the award-winning crime fiction author, is almost as well known for his instructional books for writers, and contributed a monthly column on fiction to Writers Digest for 14 years. WRITING THE NOVEL was his first book for writers, and remained continuously in print since its original appearance in 1978. But the world of publishing has changed in the past 40 years, and Block has now ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Dear Writer, Are You In Writer's Block?

    by Becca Syme ...
    Series Book 4 - QuitBooks for Writers
    Writer’s block.Not the world’s sexiest topic, right? In fact, I have no doubt this book will go largely unnoticed, because let’s face it, no one wants to talk about this. Some people don’t even believe it exists. (Those people are wrong, by the way…) But that’s also why it’s so important to understand.Writer’s block is basically the whispered sin in the halls of authordom.But is it?I’m an author ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Dear Writer, You're Doing It Wrong

    by Becca Syme ...
    Series Book 3 - QuitBooks for Writers
    These titles just keep getting better and better, don’t they? You Need to Quit, You’re in Burnout, You’ve Got Writer’s Block… does Becca just hate people and want us all to feel bad about ourselves?Oh, no, dear writer… oh, no. Contraire mon-frere, as they say.This book is the product of work with thousands of writers on what truly holds us back from the success that we want to have. There is one ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A Year of Writing Dangerously

    365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement

    by Barbara Abercrombie ...
    In this collection of anecdotes, lessons, quotes, and prompts, author and writing teacher Barbara Abercrombie provides a delightfully varied cornucopia of inspiration nuts-and-bolts solutions, hand-holding commiseration, and epiphany-fueling insights from fellow writers, including Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners and Abercrombies students who have gone from paralyzed to published. ... Read more

    $13.09 USD $11.59 USD

  • The Dorothy Dunnett Companion

    Volume II

    by Elspeth Morrison ...
    Dorothy Dunnett has earned worldwide acclaim for the masterful blending of historical fact and imagination in her two series of novels set in brilliantly reconstructed fifteenth- and sixteenth-century landscapes.The Dorothy Dunnett Companion II is an encyclopedic resource that completes and expands the reach of the first Companion in documenting the historical and literary riches of Dunnett's ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • How To Write Non-Fiction

    Turn Your Knowledge Into Words

    by Joanna Penn ...
    Series Book 9 - Books for Writers
    Do you want to write a non-fiction book but don't know where to start?Or perhaps you worry that you're not ‘the expert' or have enough authority in your niche to write a book on it?Are you ready to help other people and change your own life with your words?The first non-fiction book I wrote changed my life. Sure, it helped other people, but mostly it altered the course of my life – so much so that ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Manuale di scrittura creativa

    Con esempi, esercizi, approfondimenti

    by Vania Russo ...
    Scrivere è passione, arte, fantasia. Ma può essere anche un mestiere, un lavoro, e Vania Russo, editor professionista, conosce la strada che può portare ogni scrittore a diventare un maestro della scrittura. L'ottica professionale è diversa da quella di impulso, e considera ogni elemento di un libro in modo funzionale, con l'obiettivo di migliorare il testo e renderlo più fruibile, più ... Read more

    $1.99 USD