Agents, Editors, and You: The Insider's Guide to Getting ...
 From Amazon.com: The Herculean effort required to write a book can seem almost negligible when compared with the energy it takes to line up a hardworking agent, a caring editor, and an acceptable contract. Agents, Editors, and You, edited by Michelle [... more]
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The Fast Track Course on How to Write a Nonfiction Book ...
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The Stuff of Fiction: Advice on Craft
From Amazon.com: To read Douglas Bauer's lovely ruminations on the art of literary fiction is to be transported back to those intimate seminars one never quite appreciated enough in school. How refreshing it is to read a book about fiction writing that [... more]
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The Book of Myself: A Do-it-Yourself Autobiography in ...
From Amazon.com: Strong is the urge to write one's life story as a keepsake for oneself and one's family. The difficulty is knowing where to start, and then where to go from there. Carl and David Marshall, a grandfather-grandson team, have created a fine [... more]
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Encyclopedia
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The Stuff of Fiction: Advice on Craft
From Amazon.com: To read Douglas Bauer's lovely ruminations on the art of literary fiction is to be transported back to those intimate seminars one never quite appreciated enough in school. How refreshing it is to read a book about fiction writing that [... more]
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The Journalist's Craft: A Guide to Writing Better Stories
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The College Application Essay
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Lost Classics
From Amazon.com: Writers, it's often said, are readers first and writers second. Frequently, it is the indelible mark left by some book that inspires a person to commit to the writing life. Mining that vein, the editors of Brick, a Canadian literary [... more]
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The Writer's Handbook 2003
From Amazon.com: The annual Writer's Handbook competes neck-and-neck with the better-known Writer's Market. The 2002 Handbook lists 3,300 markets and resources; the 2002 Market "about 4,000." Though the Handbook blurbs are not as detailed as [... more]
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Damn! Why Didnt I Write That?: How Ordinary People are ...
From Amazon.com: Forget everything you've heard about the travails of the freelance writer. In Damn! Why Didn't I Write That?, Marc McCutcheon contends that "you can learn the trade and begin making a respectable income much faster than most people [... more]
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Follow the Story: How to Write Successful Nonfiction
From Amazon.com: Forget everything you thought you knew about journalism. James B. Stewart shuns pyramid style and all its accoutrements for a more creative type of nonfiction, nonfiction that tells a compelling story. Stewart's ideas about nonfiction [... more]
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