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• Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (P.S.)
  
  Long before there were creative-writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says Francine Prose.

  • ISBN13: 9780060777050
  • Condition: New
• Forged: Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are
  
  It is often said, even by critical scholars who should know better, that “writing in the name of another” was widely accepted in antiquity. But New York Times bestselling author Bart D. Ehrman dares to call it what it was: literary forgery, a practice that was as scandalous then as it is today.

  • ISBN13: 9780062012616
  • Condition: New
• The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life
  
  A recent study revealed that the Number 1 thing that baby boomers want to do in retirement is write a book....about themselves. It's not that every person has lived such a unique or dramatic life, but we inherently understand that writing memoir-whether it's a book, blog, or just a letter to a child...
• War at the Wall Street Journal: Inside the Struggle To Control an American Business Empire
  
  This is a tale about big business, an imploding dynasty, a mogul at war, and a deal that sums up an era of change. The main character, rocked by feuding factions and those who would remake it, is the Wall Street Journal, which affects the thoughts, votes, and stocks of two million readers daily.

  • ISBN13: 9780547152431
  • Condition: New
• The Plain & Simple Guide to Music Publishing: Foreword by Tom Petty (Book)
  
  Music exec offers an affordable, no-nonsense guide to the basics and beyond. Music publishing is one of the most complex parts of the music business and yet it can be the most lucrative area of income for musicians. Expert and industry veteran Ran
• Writing Fiction a Guide to Narrative Craft
  
  Writing Fiction a Guide to Narrative Craft
• The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published: How to Write It, Sell It, and Market It . . . Successfully
  
  The best, most comprehensive book for writers is now completely revised and updated to address ongoing changes in publishing. Published in 2005 as Putting Your Passion Into Print, this is the book that’s been praised by both industry professionals (“Refreshingly honest, knowledgeable and detailed. .
• The Nasty Little Writing Book : Longtime New York Publishing Insider Reveals Secrets Only Best-Selling Authors Know
  
  BOOK BY PUBLISHING INSIDER TOPPLES PUBLISHING FROM PEDESTAL A new satire of how-to-write-books by NY publishing insider Madelyne Simone Rovenhauer has the market all to itself. In a genre rife with deadly serious texts purporting to teach the beginner to write bestselling novels, there is now a dea...
• The 90-Day Novel: Unlock the story within
  
  Alan Watt wrote the first draft of his novel Diamond Dogs in just under 90 days, and later sold the North American rights for $500,000 to Little, Brown in a bidding war. The book became a national bestseller, won a slew of awards and is soon to be a major motion picture.
• The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1
  
  The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge.
• Essays in the Art of Writing
  
  The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Literary Criticism / General; Humor / Form / Essays; Language Arts
• Deconstructing Obama: The Life, Loves, and Letters of America's First Postmodern President
  
  Did Obama write his own books and is the story they tell true? “I've written two books,” Barack Obama told a crowd of teachers in July of 2008. “I actually wrote them myself.” The teachers exploded in laughter. They got the joke: lesser politicians were not bright enough to do the same.

  • ISBN13: 9781451611113
  • Condition: New
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (Audio Editions)
  
  If you have ever wondered what it takes to be a writer, what it means to live a writer's life, this audio is for you. Ranging through all aspects of writing--from faith, love and grace to pain, jealousy and fear--Anne Lamott shows you how to keep your eyes open and write about what you see.
• 2011 Writer's Market
  
  This is the writer?s bible to freelance success by providing the updated information writers need to get published and get paid for their work. Features include: more than 3,500 completely updated listings from the previous edition; exclusive interviews with successful writers, such as Charlaine Har...

  • ISBN13: 9781582979489
  • Condition: New
• Story Engineering
  
  From story concept to character development to scene construction and beyond, this blueprint for dynamic storytelling makes putting together a strong novel, memoir, or screenplay easier than ever.

  • ISBN13: 9781582979984
  • Condition: New
• The Technique of Fiction Writing
  
  Many books have been written on fiction technique, and the chief excuse for the present addition to the number is the complexity of the subject. Its range is so wide, it calls for so many and so different capacities in one attempting to discuss it, that a new work has more than a chance to meet at l...
• Non-Designer's Design Book, The (3rd Edition)
  
  This is the eBook version of the printed book.A lot has happened in the world of digital design since the first edition of this title was published, but one thing remains true: There is an ever-growing number of people attempting to design pages with no formal training.
• Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1
  
  My aim in this book has been to reproduce my own experience in our Civil War in such a way as to help the reader understand just how the duties and the problems of that great conflict presented themselves successively to one man who had an active part in it from the beginning to the end.
• We Are Not Alone: The Writer's Guide to Social Media (Writing)
  
  Foreword written by NY Times Best-Selling Author Bob Mayer, “I wished there had been a step-by-step guide for writers on how to not only do social media technically, but do it content-wise.
• An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic
  
  The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from Ancient Mesopotamia and is among the earliest known works of literary fiction. Scholars believe that it originated as a series of Sumerian legends and poems about the mythological hero-king Gilgamesh, which were gathered into a longer Akkadian poem much lat...
• Round the Sofa
  
  "Long ago I was placed by my parents under the medical treatment of a certain Mr. Dawson, a surgeon in Edinburgh, who had obtained a reputation for the cure of a particular class of diseases. I was sent with my governess into lodgings near his house, in the Old Town. "
• The Case of the Lamp That Went Out
  
  "Joseph Muller, Secret Service detective of the Imperial Austrian police, is one of the great experts in his profession. In personality he differs greatly from other famous detectives. He has neither the impressive authority of Sherlock Holmes, nor the keen brilliancy of Monsieur Lecoq. "
• Stop Writing, Fool
  
  It's 30 years since I caught the writing virus. I recovered after almost 10 years of obsessive writing. I would get up early and scribble a page before going to work. Later, I would stretch out upon the settee, my Amstrad keyboard attached to a block of wood, and tap the evening away with one eye on...