Everyday Life in the 1800s: A Guide for Writers, ...
 Simply a dictionary: When I read the description of the book I thought that this book would actually provide information about everyday life in the 1800's; instead, it is merely a dictionary. There are no passages that describe fashion, etiquette, [... more]
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Missing Persons: A Writer's Guide to Finding the Lost, ...
Amazon.com Review: Fay Faron first discovered her proclivity for detective work when the houseboat she'd just bought sank in Sausalito's Richardson Bay and it behooved her to track down the boat's elusive previous resident. She is the founder of the Rat [... more]
$18.99
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Borderlands of Science
Not bad, not the most accurate subtitle: This book doesn't teach you to think like a scientst, nor how to write science fiction, but this subtitle may be the fault of the jacket writer and not the author. This book is a readable summary of a number of [... more]
$6.99
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The Criminal Mind
Not the best: Yes, it is adequate, but my advice to any write who is seriously considering writing about anything psychologically related is to simply buy a psychology book related to what you want. They, for the most part, are not that hard to [... more]
$17.99
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Elements of Mystery Fiction, The: Writing the Modern ...
The best book on writing mysteries I've read yet: Of all the books on writing mysteries - and there are many - this is one of the only written by a real master of the craft (with the exception, perhaps, of Patricia Highsmith's book). Tapply neither talks [... more]
$16.95
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Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Your Romance Published
Amazon.com Review: Romances account for more than half of all mass-market paperback fiction sold. Two thousand romances are published each year. Ah, a land of opportunity, the writer is prone to think. Not so fast, Swifty. If you aren't already a reader [... more]
$16.95
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Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction
I followed their advice and got published!: My original review is below, but I have things to add. Two books made all the difference for me. Now I have an agent, and he has sold my military sci-fi adventures to Ace Book. The books that made the [... more]
$16.95
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Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
Amazon.com Review: Suspense, like other genre fiction, is often assumed to be inferior in quality to more "serious" fiction. A suspense story can be every bit as well-wrought as any other, argues Patricia Highsmith in Plotting and Writing [... more]
$12.95
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Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy
Wildly Uneven, But Worth it For The Good Bits: At the most basic level, this book delivers what the title and subtitle promises: How-to essays by some of the biggest names (as of the mid-1980s) in science fiction writing. The majority deal with science [... more]
$14.95
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Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
Amazon.com Review: Suspense, like other genre fiction, is often assumed to be inferior in quality to more "serious" fiction. A suspense story can be every bit as well-wrought as any other, argues Patricia Highsmith in Plotting and Writing [... more]
$13.95
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How to Write a Mystery
Helpful, witty, and wonderful, but biased--not for cozies!: The things I love about this book are that it's clever, formally interesting, and fun to read, and that it is irreverent. It doesn't tell you to scrutinize the market and write only the sort of [... more]
$15.00
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The Weekend Novelist Writes A Mystery
Weekend novelist? Probably not.: Writing fiction is like painting a landscape. A lot of artists can do it, and each one has an individual way they do it. It is the same with writing. Many people have written good novels; each one approaches it [... more]
$15.00
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