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The Business of Writing for Children: An Award-Winning Author’s Tips on Writing Children’s Books and Publishing Them, or How to Write, Publish, and Promote a Book for Kids
Writing books for children is both art and business. If you dream of becoming a children's author — or even if you're well on your way — this handbook can help you in writing sellable stories, getting them published, and promoting your books.
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The Naked Author: A Guide to Self-Publishing
This how-to guide advises aspiring writers on how to tap into the world of self-publishing and channel their energy to handle the creative demands of their craft and gain confidence in managing the many business aspects of publishing.
New online technology and digital publishing service providers have vastly contributed to the number of viable options available to writers who want their work published. This book offers a new look at this expanded playing field and compares it to the practices of commercial publishers so writers can see what they should emulate and avoid. It covers how to choose editorial and publishing services, where to look for red flags and potential scams, and how to assess whether a good job has been done.
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Show, Don’t Tell: Five Secrets to Solving the #1 Problem in Fiction Writing
What's the #1 comment that agents, editors and writing instructors make to new writers? "You need to show, rather than tell."
But what does that really mean? Most writers have only a vague clue. They get the concept but they don't know specifically what to do to their own manuscripts to make them better–to grab the attention of an agent or editor. Nearly every how-to writing book talks about the importance of this vital concept, but few give actual techniques and examples.
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Plotting Simplified: Story Structure Tips For The Break-Out Novelist (Writing With Excellence)
We remember characters; we pitch plot. In Plotting Simplified you'll learn how to map your story using the "passage markers" that shape every story's journey. From introduction and motivation to your Lead's moment of maximum angst, you’ll see how easy it is to develop a story line and keep your characters on the path to a compelling climax.
Learn how to introduce the Great Disturbance, what 4 Questions you should ask of your plot, how to map-out your story, manage your key scenes, the 7 Keys to every good plot, why Worry, Conflict and Disaster spells success for the writer, and how to introduce your Major Dramatic Question.
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Creative Writing for People Who Can’t Not Write
Crammed with crucial facts, ideas, and warnings never before brought together into clear focus, this guide is not only fun to read, but also work-boots practical. Not only inspiring, but pinch-penny accurate. Not only optimistic, but report-card candid. Not only kindly, but tattle-tale frank. It is an energizing tonic for writers' weary brain cells. Every writer is important. Creative Writing for People Who Can't Not Write is a book for every writer. Topics in this lively blend of advice, inspiration, and scholarly wit include: – the wonder of creativity – getting published, paid, and read – why writing should be impossible – how to avoid looking foolish in print – a sugar-coated history of the whimsical, word-rich English language – the nature of poetry – the sixteen writer-type temperaments – reflections from contemporary writers on their work – a first-ever collation of pages of advice from C.S. Lewis. Lewis once wrote to Lindskoog, 'If you understand me so well, you will understand other authors, too.' Writers who read Creative Writing for People Who Can't Not Write will agree with Lewis' assessment of Kathryn Lindskoog's insight into the writing life. And this book also passes Lindskoog's own test: 'A good writer is a graceful guest in a reader's brain.'
How to Self-Publish a Book on Amazon.com
This is a special Kindle edition of the book, "How to Self-Publish a Book on Amazon.com," by Chris McMullen. Note that this special Kindle edition does not include the handful of figures which appear in the print edition of this book.
Learn how to self-publish your book on Amazon.com using a books-on-demand publishing service which is part of the Amazon group of companies. This handy reference will guide you through all of the stages of the self-publishing process, from the conception of your book to writing the manuscript to editing and formatting to PDF conversion to publishing to promotional strategies. The author has self-published over a dozen books, of different types, on Amazon.com. Through his experience and knowledge, he provides several useful tips. Having drawn thousands of professional illustrations with Microsoft Word’s drawing tools, many of which appear in the author’s books and covers, a tutorial is included to show you how you, too, can easily create professional diagrams. Learn how to design a professional cover and book interior, whether you include artwork or photographs. With this reference as a guide, you can self-publish a quality manuscript with ease!
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The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing
In The Program Era, Mark McGurl offers a fundamental reinterpretation of postwar American fiction, asserting that it can be properly understood only in relation to the rise of mass higher education and the creative writing program. McGurl asks both how the patronage of the university has reorganized American literature and—even more important—how the increasing intimacy of writing and schooling can be brought to bear on a reading of this literature.
McGurl argues that far from occasioning a decline in the quality or interest of American writing, the rise of the creative writing program has instead generated a complex and evolving constellation of aesthetic problems that have been explored with energy and at times brilliance by authors ranging from Flannery O’Connor to Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth, Raymond Carver, Joyce Carol Oates, and Toni Morrison.
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Crafting The Personal Essay: A Guide for Writing and Publishing Creative Non-Fiction
Award winning essayist Scott Russell Sanders once compared the art of essay writing to "the pursuit of mental rabbits"—a rambling through thickets of thought in search of some brief glimmer of fuzzy truth. While some people persist in the belief that essays are stuffy and antiquated, the truth is that the personal essay is an ever-changing creative medium that provides an ideal vehicle for satisfying the human urge to document truths as we experience them and share them with others—to capture a bit of life on paper.
Crafting the Personal Essay is designed to help you explore the flexibility and power of the personal essay in your own writing. This hands-on, creativity-expanding guide will help you infuse your nonfiction with honesty, personality, and energy. You'll discover:
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Tagged 1582977968, ACAMP_book_usedlikenew_1582977968, Authorship, Autobiography, Dinty W. Moore, English language, Essay, Language, Rhetoric, Writers Digest Books
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The Handbook of Scholarly Writing and Publishing (The Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series)
There is a need for a resource that focuses on writing for publication that discusses the components of a manuscript, types of manuscripts, and the submission process. This groundbreaking book fills that need and includes information on how to develop writing skills by offering guidance on becoming an excellent manuscript reviewer and outlining what makes a good review. It shows how to craft scholarly papers and other writing suitable for submission to academic journals. The book offers on developing a manuscript suitable for publication in scholarly journals including tips on follow through with editors, rejection, and rewrites and re-submittals.
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Tagged 0470393351, 80526, Academic writing, Authorship, John W. Creswell, Jossey-Bass, Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy, Scholarly publishing, Tim Hatcher, Tonette S. Rocco
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