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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott Publisher Comments "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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On Writing by Stephen King Publisher Comments "Long live the King," hailed Entertainment Weekly upon the publication of Stephen King's On Writing. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft,... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Developing Story Ideas (2ND 06 Edition) by Michael Rabiger Publisher Comments This book was written to answer a pressing need for works with more individuality, focus, and personal voice. Michael Rabiger, a renowned teacher, author, educator, and mentor, proves we all have the inner resources and life experiences to be creative... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Gotham Writers' Workshop Writing Fiction: The Practical Guide from New York's Acclaimed Creative Writing School by Gotham Writers' Workshop Publisher Comments Gotham Writers' Workshop has mastered the art of teaching the craft of writing in a way that is practical, accessible, and entertaining. Now the techniques of this renowned school are available in this book. Here you'll find: - The fundamental elements... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Walking in This World: The Practical Art of Creativity by Julia Cameron Publisher Comments Ten years ago Julia Cameron published a groundbreaking work that offered an original and astoundingly effective twelve-week course in creative discovery. With nearly two million copies sold, The Artist's Way is now a classic cherished by the aspiring and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Unstuck : Supportive and Practical Guide To Working Through Writer's Block (03 Edition) by Jane Anne Staw Publisher Comments No one is immune to writer's block. From well-known novelists to students writing term papers, Ph.D. candidates, and associates in business and law firms, most anyone who writes has experienced either brief moments or longer periods when the words simply... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Pen on Fire: A Busy Woman's Guide to Igniting the Writer Within by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett Publisher Comments "PEN ON FIRE soars with inspiration and crackles with joy. It's a blessing for anyone going crazy trying to find time to write." --Carolyn See, author of Making a Literary Life In her years of teaching, Barbara DeMarco-Barrett has found aspiring writers (... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sound of Paper: Starting from Scratch by Julia Cameron Publisher Comments The bestselling author of The Artist's Way draws on her many years of personal experience as both a writer and a teacher to uncover the difficult soul work that artists must do to find inspiration. In The Sound of Paper, Julia Cameron delves deep... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Making a Literary Life: Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers by Carolyn See Publisher Comments As Carolyn See says, writing guides are like preachers on Sunday—there may be a lot of them, but you can’t have too many, and there’s always an audience of the faithful. And while Making a Literary Life is ostensibly a book that teaches... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Living with a Writer by Dale Salwak Publisher Comments Living with a Writer features some of our most insightful literary minds writing as only they could on the practical and personal considerations of being a writer. Entries include John Updike on being a writer; David Updike on being the son of a writer... (read more) List Price $35.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Will Write for Food: The Complete Guide to Writing Cookbooks, Restaurant Reviews, Articles, Memoir, Fiction and More... by Dianne Jacob Publisher Comments Food lovers who want to express themselves through article writing, restaurant reviewing, and cookbook writing will find the tools to get started in the incredibly popular world of food writing.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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How to Write a Damn Good Mystery: A Practical Step-By-Step Guide from Inspiration to Finished Manuscript by James Frey Publisher Comments Edgar award nominee James N. Frey, author of the internationally best-selling books on the craft of writing, How to Write a Damn Good Novel, How to Write a Damn Good Novel II: Advanced Techniques, and The Key: How to Write Damn Good Fiction Using the... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Writing Alone and With Others (03 Edition) by Pat Schneider Publisher Comments For more than a quarter of a century, Pat Schneider has helped writers find and liberate their true voices. She has taught all kinds--the award winning, the struggling, and those who have been silenced by poverty and hardship. Her innovative methods have... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Making the Perfect Pitch: Advice from 35 Top Book Agents by Katharine Sands Publisher Comments A writer can have the wisdom of Frank McCourt, the imagination of J.K. Rowling, and the economy of Ernest Hemingway - but still needs to be able to pitch, query and propose before he or she can get published. This book will tell you. It offers sage... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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On Teaching and Writing Fiction by Wallace Stegner and Lynn Stegner Publisher Comments Wallace Stegner founded the acclaimed Stanford Writing Program-a program whose alumni include such literary luminaries as Larry McMurtry, Robert Stone, and Raymond Carver. Here Lynn Stegner brings together eight of Stegner's previously uncollected essays-... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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How to Write Killer Fiction: The Funhouse of Mystery and the Roller Coaster of Suspense by Carolyn Wheat Publisher Comments It takes brains to solve a mystery; it takes guts to survive suspense. Here are tips and inspiration for successful writing in either game. Carolyn Wheat, the highly regarded creative writing teacher and author, explains the difference between... (read more) Your price: $13.95 New - Trade Paper
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Seventy-eight Reasons Why Your Book May Never Be Published and Fourteen Reasons Why It Just Might by Pat Walsh Publisher Comments An industry insider's blunt, practical, and laugh-out-loud funny guide for the unpublished, filled with advice that may actually help them get into print. For the hundreds of thousands who buy writers' guides every year, at last there's one that... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sell Your Novel Tool Kit: Everything You Need to Know about Queries, Synopses, Marketing & Breaking in by Elizabeth Lyon Publisher Comments Writers often spend years perfecting their first novel—then hit a dead end when it comes to getting it published. Learning to market your novel will make it stand out from the thousands of other books clamoring for the attention of an ever... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Remembrance of Things Paris: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet by Ruth Reichl Publisher Comments A glorious, edible tour of Paris through six decades of writing from Gourmet magazine, edited and introduced by Ruth Reichl For sixty years the best food writers have been sending dispatches from Paris to Gourmet. Collected here for the first time, their... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Writing Alone, Writing Together : Guide for Writers and Writing Groups (02 Edition) by Judy Reeves Publisher Comments The lonely life of a writer need not be. According to this book, there are ways to break that isolation and find encouragement and support within "tribes" of like-minded people.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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