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Books on Writing, Publishing, Book Marketing
These are books pertaining to writing techiniques, authoring, selling your book etc
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Becoming Your Own Critique Partner
Authors: Janet Law Walters & Jane ToombsISBN: 1-55410-292-8/978-1-55410-292-1Checking out the Internet as well as various other sources I notice there is a great deal of excellent advice on writing techniques. Unfortunately, many aspiring writers as well as experienced ones either neglect the advice or are unaware of its existence.There are also local critique groups and countless workshops, seminars, and other avenues where writers can learn how to improve their writing skills, however...
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2-25-2007
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The Muse On Writing
Editor: Lea SchizasISBN: 1554043174 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsThe Muse on Writing was published, as Editor Lea Schizas declares in the introduction, “to unravel some writing aspects in a way not presented in other writing books.” To accomplish this feat she has amassed nineteen excellent writers and authors, each of whom have combined their knowledge pertaining to important topics as the writer’s...
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2-27-2006
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Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method
Author: Gerald M. WeinbergISBN: 093263365X The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews With the advent of self-publishing there is a current vogue for writing manualsand writers’ aids. Most usually take the same approach with little variations.However, Gerald M. Weinberg has come up with a creative approach with hisWeinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method. He offers alternatives to yourwriting habits that he...
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3-31-2006
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1001 Ways To Market Your Books: 5th Edition by John Kremer
Can you imagine a book entitled 1001 Ways to Market Your Books? At first I was doubtful that any author would be able to realistically provide a guide that would contain 1001 ways to help you market your book. However, after reading John Kremer’s extensive guidebook, 1001 Ways To Market Your Book-5th Edition, my doubts were tossed aside and in fact I would have to admit that the book would qualify as recommended reading for a college level course. As the author mentions in the introduction,...
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3-21-2007
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2003 Children’s Writer’s & Illustrator’s Market by Alice Pope and Mona Michael (Editors)
A must reference text, any novice children’s author or even the experienced, will find the 2003 Children’s Writer’s & Illustrator’s Market, edited by Alice Pope and Mona Michael, an invaluable tool. What else could you wish for than having more than twenty-five experienced experts in various disciplines let you in on their secrets? Dividing itself into three major sections, this well researched and informative book deals with the following topics: how to use the book, identifying...
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3-21-2007
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Crafting the Travel Guidebook: How to Write, Publish & Sell Your Travel Book
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Crafting the Travel Guidebook: How to Write, Publish & Sell Your Travel Book Author: Barbara HudginsISBN: 9780960776207 If you have any preconceptions about writing a travel guidebook, you can put them aside until you have read Barbara Hudgins Crafting the Travel Guidebook: How to Write, Publish & Sell Your Travel Book. As Hudgins mentions in her introduction, “Travel writing may be an art, but putting a travel guidebook together is a...
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10-24-2007
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Don’t Murder Your Mystery: 24 Fiction-Writing Techniques To Save Your Manuscript From Turning Up D.O.A
Click Here To Purchase Don’t Murder Your Mystery: 24 Fiction-Writing Techniques To Save Your Manuscript From Turning Up D.O.A Author: Chris RoerdenISBN: 1-933523131In the opening pages of Don’t Murder Your Mystery: 24 Fiction-Writing Techniques To Save Your Manuscript From Turning Up D.O.A. Chris Roerden makes it crystal clear that she doesn’t consider herself a book doctor. Roerden states that the term book doctor would imply that the writer’s work is sick. Roerden further specifies that she...
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9-11-2007
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Fear of Writing:For Writers and Closet Writers by Milli Thornton
The following review was contributed by: CAROLYN HOWARD-JOHNSON So, you’re a writer. Maybe you have trouble admitting it at a party. Or to yourself. Maybe you don’t feel like a writer because a bad case of “the block” has got you. Milli Thornton’s Fear of Writing to the rescue! There simply is no way a writer can read this book without stumbling over a reflection of themselves somewhere in its pages. No way one could come away from it without improving her image of herself as a writer,...
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3-21-2007
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From Book to Bestseller
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon From Book to Bestseller Author: Penny SansevieriISBN: 1-600370-8-96"From Book to Bestseller" has been called "the roadmap to publishing success." This author can see why. Divided into eight sections, Sansevieri walks you through everything you will need to take your book from idea to bestseller.
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2-10-2007
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From Book to Bestseller: An Insider’s Guide to Publicizing and Marketing your Book!
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon From Book to Bestseller Author: Penny C. SansevieriISBN: 1-60037-085-3 (Paperback): ISBN: 1-60037-084-5 (Hardcover) From Book to Bestseller is a softbound book with 9 sections (or chapters). The book is also available in hardbound, eBook, and audio CD formats. The acknowledgments section is heartfelt and the disclaimer cautions the reader that additional marketing tools, beyond this single book, are recommended, and even offers a full refund for those...
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2-3-2007
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From Book to Bookseller
Author: Penny SansevieriISBN: 1600370896Every profession has some semblance of a manual to flip through for reference. Writers have an array of resources at their disposal from magazines, Internet and books, such as this one from Penny Sansevieri. From Book to Bookseller is a great resource for anyone who is breaking into the writing profession.When you have created your work of art, the real work is in promoting and selling your book. In the wake of self-publishing, this book holds a...
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2-28-2007
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Gabay’s Copywriters’ Compendium – The definitive professional writer’s guide.
Author: J Jonathan GabayISBN: 0-7506 6402 9The following review was contributed by: Helen Kaut: To read more of Helen Kaut’s Reviews Click HEREMany freelance journalists want to boost their income with copywriting. Whether it is an advert, a speech, direct mail, a brochure, a press release or a website – the possibilities of commercial copywriting are endless. But how do you write professional copy which sells? This is where Gabay’s Copywriters’ Compendium comes to the writer’s rescue....
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10-11-2005
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Grassroots Marketing for Authors and Publishers
Author: Shel HorowitzISBN: 13:978-0-96146666-3: 10:9614666-3-4Whenever I interview self-published authors I generally pose the question how do they intend to market their books? I am quite dumbfounded that the majority of these authors are so naive and many confess to me that they don’t even know where to start.Fortunately with the many books devoted to book marketing as well as the countless Internet sites, there is help at hand, however it is essential that authors devote adequate time to...
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4-21-2007
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How to get Published by Michael LaRocca
The Following review was contributed by: Molly Martin Michael LaRocca has put together an approximately 90 page series of helpful hints, thoughts, urls, etc for fellow authors. He says he has been in the business for 20 unsuccessful years and 2 successful ones and now wants to share what he has learned. The copy I received for review is a zip file with a cluster of HTML files and some JPGs. The work can be downloaded at: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/michaellarocca. LaRocca says the book...
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10-11-2004
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How to Grow a Novel The most Common Mistakes Writers Make and How to Overcome Them by Sol Stein
The Following review was contributed by: Molly MartinSol Stein presents a good handbook for the beginning and/or more experienced writer. How to Grow a Novel The most Common Mistakes Writers Make and How to Overcome Them is divided into two major sections: The Responsibilities of the Writer 15 chapters and The Responsibilities of the Publisher 3 chapters. Included under Responsibilities for Writers are Chapter 2: Is Conflict a Necessity? Chapter 7: Our Native Language is not Dialogue and...
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10-11-2004
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Isherwood on Writing
Click Here To Purchase Isherwood on Writing Editor: James J. Berg: Forward by Claude J. SummersISBN: 13-978-0-8166-4693-7: 10-0-8166-4693-7 Christopher Isherwood is considered a major Anglo-American novelist. He was a pioneer in the gay liberation movement and the founding father of modern gay writing. In the late
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4-1-2008
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Keys to Great Writing by Stephen Wilbers
A writer’s tool kit should include a good dictionary, a thesaurus, a style manual, and a copy of Stephen Wilbers excellent book, Keys to Great Writing. Wilbers credentials are impressive. He is a former Fulbright scholar, syndicated columnist, adjunct professor and writing consultant, author of a few books on writing. In 1995, he won the Outstanding Faculty Award at Hamline University’s graduate studies program. What are the keys to great writing? Wilbers informs us his students always want...
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3-21-2007
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Make a Real Living as a Freelance Writer: How To Win Top Writing Assignments by Jenna Glatzer
The following review was contributed by: Rachel Newcombe Many writers dream of scoring top assignments for big name magazines and Jenna Glatzer is one person who has achieved that. In Make a Real Living as a Freelance Writer she shares her insight and know-how so others can attempt to achieve it too. In a friendly and down-to-earth manner, she takes the reader through the processes involved in becoming a successful freelance writer, from the initial stages of generating ideas and finding...
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3-21-2007
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Make a Real Living as a Freelance Writer: Subtitle: How to Win Top Writing Assignments by Jenna Glatzer
The following review was contributed by: Carolyn Howard-Johnson, award-winning author of This is the Place and Harkening Jenna Glatzer Shares the Essence of Freelancing Funny how inspiration can attack you in unexpected ways. In terms of career development, I have been motivated twice this year. Earlier in the year I attended a lovely luncheon sponsored by Smith Barney. “It’s sure to be more social than anything else,” I thought. Barbara Stanny, author of The Secret of Six Figure Women was...
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3-21-2007
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Outwitting Writer's Block and Other Problems of the Pen by Jenna Glatzer
The following review was contributed by: RACHEL NEWCOMBE Every writer dreads coming down with a bad case of writer's block. It plays havoc with normal writing routines, and can cause stress, sleepless nights and worry. The good news is - there is a cure! Get yourself a copy of Outwitting Writer's Block and Other Problems of the Pen, by Jenna Glatzer. The book deals with the pesky issue of writer's block in a new light, from offering insight into what it is and why it occurs, to examining ways...
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3-21-2007
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Outwitting Writer’s Block and Other Problems of the Pen by Jenna Glatzer
The following review was contributed by: CAROLYN HOWARD-JOHNSON AbsoluteWrite.com’s Guru Debunks Myths So You Can Write Jenna Glatzer, editor of AbsoluteWrite.com, is every writer’s friend. She has assembled all her own ideas (well, maybe not all but a huge number of ideas!) as well as many she has gleaned from a cadre of writing associates into a single book. It is the kind of gift that could only be given from one writer to another. It is evident that, with her experience and this kind of...
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3-21-2007
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Over 100 FAQs Women Asked About Writing
Editor: Edited by Angel Brown and Sheri" McConnellNational Association of Women Writers, 2005ISBN: 0971477531Adult/Nonfiction/WritingPublisher's Website: www.naww.org
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4-5-2005
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Putting It On Paper - The Ground Rules for Creating Promotional Pieces that Sell Books by Dawn Josephson
The Following Review Was Contributed by: S.V.SWAMY PUTTING IT ON PAPER - THE GROUND RULES FOR CREATING PROMOTIONAL PIECES THAT SELL BOOKS by DAWN JOSEPHSON is clear in its target group - authors who need to promote their books and who lack the resources to engage capable people like Dawn to do the job. The need to promote the book is of course very well known and accepted. Once the need is accepted, the choices are clear: either engage a competent Author Services Outfit or do it yourself....
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10-19-2004
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Release Your Writing (Book publishing, your way!)
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Release Your Writing (Book publishing, your way!)Author Helen Gallagher ISBN: 978-1-60264-060-3Publisher: virtualbookworm.com This handy book gives you all the knowledge you could ever need in order to publish your book. It tells you absolutely everything.I have tried unsuccessfully myself to acquire an agent or a publisher to get my novel into print. I did eventually self-publish a few copies but had I read this book first then I would have probably...
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2-12-2008
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Roget’s Descriptive Word Finder-A Dictionary/Thesaurus of Adjectives by Barbara Ann Kipfer Ph.D.
I am quite sure that almost anyone, who has ever taken an English course in high school or college, had to purchase at least one copy of Roget’s Thesaurus. I never knew, until recently, the derivation of the term “thesaurus.” Apparently the term had been derived from the post-medieval version of Latin, and it basically means treasure or a storehouse. We immediately associate the term thesaurus with Roget, whose full name was Peter Mark Roget. This brilliant individual was a medical doctor,...
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3-21-2007
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Roget’s Thesaurus of Phrases by Barbara Ann Kipfer Ph.D.
Have you ever tried to locate a reference book devoted entirely to the synonyms of phrases? For example, you wish to avoid an over used expression such as “over one’s head” and replace it with one word. Most thesauri would not be of much help, as they are primarily devoted to offering synonyms for single words. Furthermore, all of the headwords in most of these thesauri are single words. Incidentally, how about using one of the following serve as a replacement: baffling, bewildering, beyond...
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3-21-2007
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Screenwriting For Teens: The 100 Principles Of Screenwriting Every Budding Writer Must Know
Click Here To Purchase Screenwriting For Teens Author: Christina HamlettISBN: 13: 978-1-932907-18-6: 10: 1-932907-18-1Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions Candidly, I have to confess that before I read Christina Hamlett’s Screenwriting For Teens: The 100 Principles Of Screenwriting Every Budding Writer Must Know, I knew very little about screenwr
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8-27-2008
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Self-Promotion For The Creative Person by Lee Silber
The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES One of the major difficulties that creative persons as artists and musicians have is promoting themselves. In fact, I would have to go so far as to say that many of these individuals are clueless when it comes to marketing, networking, creating a niche image, selling, gaining publicity and the benefits of the Internet. They may even be bogged down by stringent guidelines or the “what will people think and say”...
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3-21-2007
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Sell Your Book on Amazon
Click Here To Purchase This Book From Amazon Author: Brent SampsonISBN: 1-432701967Although I have contributed several hundred reviews to Amazon and I am even classified as one of their top one thousand reviewers, I never investigated how Amazon provides its authors with some terrific tools that would facilitate the promotion and selling of their books.However, when I came across Brent Samson's Sell Your Book on Amazon, I realized how Amazon makes it possible to reach a worldwide audience...
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4-7-2007
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So Your Muse has gone AWOL by Pamela Johnson and Lori Soard
The following review was contributed by: JULIE AMIDON Pamela Johnson and Lori Soard have served up a ingeniously full writers toolbox with “So Your Muse has gone AWOL”; creating an excellent resource for both the beginning and experienced serious writer. Half way through your novel and the words won’t come? Your editor needs an article and you don’t know what to write? Never fear! “So Your Muse has gone AWOL” is chock full of resources, ideas, tips and exercises to call your muse back home....
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3-21-2007
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Starting Your Career As A Freelance Writer by Moira Anderson Allen
The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES I remember very vividly when I sold my first article to a major Canadian newspaper. It was in the mid 1960s, when I had just graduated from law school and I decided that the only way to fame, and perhaps jump- start my non-existent law practice, was to write articles on Quebec Civil Law. Fortunately for me, I was in the right place at the right time, and the newspaper was looking for someone to contribute articles...
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3-21-2007
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The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation Sub-title: The Mysteries of Grammar and Punctuation Revealed
Author Jane StrausISBN: 0-9667221-7-5The following review was contributed by: S.V. SWAMY: CLICK TO VIEW S.V. Swamy's ReviewsThe Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation is "An Easy-to-use Reference Guide andWorkbook" and lives up to its description. Attractively designed andwell-written, the book is indeed a good attempt to demystify the intricacies ofgrammar and punctuation. What I received is the New, Expanded Eighth Edition andso the author would have incorporated several...
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3-28-2006
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Grant Writing
Author: Waddy ThompsonISBN: 1-59257-151-4The following review was contributed by: Shelley Bueché: Click Here to Read More of Shelley's Reviews This book is an excellent nuts-and-bolts guide to writing a grant, not only volunteers and first-time fundraisers, but also for those with a background in grant writing, but desire to take their careers to the next level. Author Waddy Thompson works for the New York Foundation for the Arts and is personally responsible for bringing in five...
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6-6-2006
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The Complete Idiot’s Guide To Critical Reading
Authors: Amy Wall and Regina WallISBN: 1592573401 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews How often have we heard the statement that someone is a prolific reader or that he or she is well-read?At first this may impress us, however, when you think about it, you have to ask how much these individuals retain and what are they getting out of their reading? As Amy Wall and Regina Wall point out in The Complete...
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6-7-2006
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The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Writing a Novel
Author: Tom MonteleoneISBN: 1-59257-172-7 Novelist Tom Montelone is such an entertaining writer that it is quite possible readers without writerly aspirations would enjoy his “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Writing a Novel.” Monteleone is that funny! In the chapter dealing with plot, he claims that writers who allow their antagonists to triumph at story
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4-28-2007
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The Complete Writer’s Journal
Complied and Edited by: Pat McGrath Avery, Joyce Faulkner, Carolyn Howard-JohnsonISBN: (13) 978-0-9743758-9-2
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6-13-2006
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The Frugal Book Promoter
Author: Carolyn Howard-JohnsonISBN 1-932993-10-XThe following review was contributed by: Sue Vogan: To read more of Sue's reviews Click HereThis is the book that every writer needs. In fact, it's the only book every writer needs! Written by an award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction, former publicist for a New York PR firm, and an instructor for the UCLA Extension's world renowned Writer's program, Carolyn Howard-Johnson knows what she writes. Thank goodness she has written what she...
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6-7-2006
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The Greatest Freelance Writing Tips in the World
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Greatest Freelance Writing Tips in the World Author: Linda JonesISBN: 978-1-905151-17-2 Each passing month brings many books on writing that come in all shapes and sizes that serve a variety of purposes. Some are helpful others are useless often regurgitating the same information that can be found on the Internet or elsewhere. Recently, I came across Linda Jones’ The Greatest Freelance Writing Tips in the World that is very, very good in cutting the fat...
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10-16-2007
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The Right Way To Write, Publish And Sell Your Book: Your Complete Guide to Successful Authorship (Second Edition)
Author: Patricia L. FryISBN: 978-0-9773576-2-8 When it comes to writing for publications, Patricia Fry’s credentials are impeccable. For over twenty years, Fry has contributed hundreds of articles to over 260 different magazines on a wide variety of topics and approximately 800 of these have been devoted to writing and publishing- no doubt making her a guru on the topic.In addition, Fry has published 25 books, and in 1983 she was far ahead of her time in establishing her own publishing...
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11-8-2007
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The Right Way to Write, Publish and Sell Your Book: Your Guide to Successful Authorship
Author: Patricia L. FryIBSN: 0977357600Patricia L. Fry, author of The Right Way to Write, Publish and Sell Your Book: Your Guide to Successful Authorship, describes herself as “give me the facts, ma'am sort of author with targeted how-to-books.”She has rightfully been regarded as a maven when it comes to counseling authors in the art of publishing and selling their books. This much-deserved status is the result of havin
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11-19-2006
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The Well Fed Self-Publisher:How to Turn One Book into a Full-Time Living
Author: Peter BowermanISBN: 0967059860 The following review was contributed by: CAROLYN HOWARD-JOHNSON: CLICK TO VIEW Carolyn Howard-Johnson's ReviewsPeter Bowerman to a Writer's Rescue So, you’re a writer. Those of us who are often listen to a voice that nags us into believing that we'll never make a living at it. Sometimes that voice comes from the Web, sometimes from our own heads, sometimes from the ether. We hear it i
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5-12-2006
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The Well-Fed Self-Publisher: How to Turn One Book into a Full Time Living
Author: Peter BowermanISBN: 0967059860Peter Bowerman, whose first two books, The Well-Fed Writer and the Well-Fed Writer: Back for Seconds have been the recipient of several awards. Bowerman has now put together another excellent book, The Well-Fed Self-Publisher: How to Turn One Book into a Full Time Living. What is quite noteworthy about all these books is that they have been self-published, thus providing concrete evidence, as Bowerman states in his introduction that he is living proof...
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11-11-2006
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The Well-Fed Writer: Financial Self-Sufficiency As A Freelance Writer In Six Months Or Less by Peter Bowerman
REVIEW Peter Bowerman, author of The Well-Fed Writer:Financial Self-Sufficiency As A Freelance Writer In Six Months Or Less, has been a free-lance writer and columnist since 1993. He refers most aptly to himself as a free- lance commercial writer rather than a copy- writer. As he mentions, and I agree, the latter sounds more professional. Bowerman sums up the life of a freelance commercial writer as “good money, flexible hours, stimulating work, go to bed when you want, get up when you want...
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3-21-2007
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The Writer Within You: A Step-By-Step Guide To Writing And Publishing In Your Retirement Years
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Writer Within You: A Step-By-Step Guide To Writing And Publishing In Your Retirement Years Author: Charles JacobsISBN: 10, 13: 0-9793636-0-8: 978-0-9793636-0-3 How often do retirees hear “your stories are great; you should write them down and publish them?” The most likely reply is I wouldn’t know where to begin or it just seems too difficult to wade through the endless steps to take before my masterpiece is published. Fret no longer, award-winning...
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9-6-2007
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The Writer's Digest Writing Clinic by Kelly Nickell (Editor)
If you were a writer it would not take very long to understand why The Writer’s Digest Writing Clinic is an invaluable tool. Weather you are a novice or a veteran writer, writing clinics can prove to be most rewarding. However, due to a lack of financial resources or time, it is sometimes very difficult to attend one of these workshops. The next best option would be to read and analyze good writing, and here is where this excellent insider’s guidebook comes in very handy. More than a dozen...
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3-21-2007
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The Writer's Quotebook: 500 Authors on Creativity, Craft and the Writing Life
Compiled, arranged and edited by Jim FisherISBN-13: 978-0-8135-3882-2Rutgers University PressDepending on your proximity to the writing life, what section of the bookyou're reading and what percentage of your daily writing quota you'vecompleted, "The Writer's Quotebook" will either fill you with hilarity,dread or inspiration.Quoting 500 different authors - everyone from Margaret Atwood to Emile Zola- on subjects as diverse as the talent, dialogue and Hollywood, "TheWriter's...
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2-9-2007
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The Writer’s Market Companion by Joe Feiertag and Mary Carmen Cupito
Probably many of us do not realize that incredibly over a billion books were sold during the past year. In the USA alone there are over 18, 000 magazines and approximately 45, 000 newspapers. Added to these publications is the multitude of information web sites. What is more noteworthy, as mentioned in The Writer’s Market Companion, authored by Joe Feiertag and Mary Carmen Cupito,is that “America’s love of reading is perhaps most evident when we look at book sales. In the years leading up to...
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3-21-2007
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Travel Writing by L. Peat O’Neill
You would like to become a travel writer. Why, Its sounds so easy and glamorous. Just write about a place, its people, landscape, weather, flora and fauna. You may even want to throw in something about history, politics, culture and folklore. However, before deciding to give up your day job, a good idea would be to read Washington Post journalist, L. Peat O’Neil’s manual entitled Travel Writing. As we are informed in the introduction, you first have to ask yourself are you a travel writer? Do...
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3-21-2007
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Writer’s Guide To Hollywood Producers, Directors, and Screenwriter’s Agents-2002-2003 by Skipp Press
If you have ever written a book, magazine article, or screen play, you know how difficult it can be to have your “brilliant” work of literature published. At least you thought it was “brilliant!” Fret no more; Skip Press has come to our rescue with his extremely helpful guide entitled Writer’s Guide To Hollywood Producers, Directors, and Screenwriter’s Agents-2002-2003. Although the book concerns itself primarily with screenwriting and which doors to knock on in order to sell your script,...
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3-21-2007
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Writer’s Guide To Places by Don Prues: Jack Heffron
Writer’s Guide To Places authored by Don Prues and Jack Heffron is an extraordinary useful guide for writers, who wish to discover a sense of many places unfamiliar to them. An astonishing number of lesser-known tidbits are included in the book pertaining to many of the well-known cities located throughout all fifty states, Canada and its territories and the people who reside within these geographical areas. For example, if an author is interested in building a character from Orlando, he or...
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3-21-2007
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Writing Creative Nonfiction by Carolyn Forché and Philip Gerard- Editors
Over the past several years there has been quite a controversy as to what exactly is creative nonfiction. In fact, there are some who even go so far as denying its existence and claim there is no such animal! If we are from the school that accepts that it is alive and kicking, we must then be able to describe what exactly is creative nonfiction. Carolyn Fauché and Philip Gerard, editors of Writing Creative Nonficton, perhaps best sum up what it is all about when they state: “creative...
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3-21-2007
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Writing.Com: Creative Internet Strategies To Advance Your Writing Career-Revised Edition by Moira Anderson Allen
Have you ever thought about writing for the Internet and were afraid to ask how to go about it? Fret no longer, Moira Anderson Allen has probably written the bible pertaining to writing and the Internet. Her comprehensive tome entitled Writing.Com: Creative Internet Strategies To Advance Your Writing Career-Revised Edition is an update of a previous book published in 1998. As she mentions in her introduction, “the purpose of the second edition is to take a fresh look at the Internet and...
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3-21-2007
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