Posted by qpen on May 29, 2010
Amazon.com Review
For many years, Lajos Egri’s highly opinionated but very enjoyable The Art of Dramatic Writing has been a well-guarded secret of playwrights, scriptwriters, and writers for television. Unlike many other books on playwrighting (several of which Egri criticizes during the course of this one), the author’s systematic breakdown of the essentials for creating successful realistic plays and screenplays effectively demystifies the process of creative writing. Egri, who (more…)
Posted by qpen on May 12, 2010
SIDE BY SIDEOn the fateful night of the Titanic disaster, heiress Loretta Linden made sure her friends and fellow passengers got to the lifeboats before she even thought of herself. Her soft heart is legendary–and her desire to help others is her great passion. She will not rest until her little band is safely reunited in her native San Francisco–where she meets the dashing Captain Quarles.HAND IN HANDMalachai Quarles has sailed the seven seas and he’s had many a sweethear (more…)
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Travelwriter Marketletter Read this before you write your next book –it will streamline your activities. Sandy Whelchel, National Writers Association Creative people are more productive when they have the best tools. Get the best computer you can afford and this book. Ray Newton, National Coordinator, Reader’s Digest Writing Workshops Dan shares his experience and insights in a readable, clear and educational way. (more…)
Posted by qpen on May 9, 2010
Amazon.com Review
You don’t have to be a complete idiot to glean something from The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Creative Writing, but it would help to be a complete novice. In a mere 300 or so large-print pages, author Laurie Rozakis sails through the fundamentals of writing novels, short stories, poetry, biographies, textbooks, reference books, magazine articles, plays, and screenplays. Then she offers primers on getting published, finding and dealing with an agent, and (more…)
Posted by qpen on May 3, 2010
Excellent writing skills are essential to getting high marks on standardized tests and succeeding in a wide range of jobs. Writing Skills Success in 20 Minutes a Day provides a step-by-step guide to improve writing skills with quick, but thorough lessons that anyone can fit into a busy schedule. Materials include: ? Full tutorials in easily confused word pairs, using verbs for strong, active writing, and proper punctuation, featuring semicolons and colons, em dashes, quotati (more…)
Posted by qpen on April 26, 2010
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Starting out with the premise that “the professional reference librarian must commit to an ongoing understanding of the fundamental concepts, essential resources, search techniques, and managerial tasks inherent to reference,” this book is an updated handbook of library reference work in the U.S. today. The fact that it comes just three years after the first edition is an indication of how fast reference is changing, and there is a new chapter on reference 2.0 t (more…)
Posted by qpen on April 24, 2010
THE CRAFT OF FICTIONTo grasp the shadowy and fantasmal form of a book, to hold it fast, toturn it over and survey it at leisure–that is the effort of a criticof books, and it is perpetually defeated. Nothing, no power, will keepa book steady and motionless before us, so that we may have time toexamine its shape and design. As quickly as we read, it melts andshifts in the memory; even at the moment when the last page is turned,a great part of the book, its finer detail, is alrea (more…)
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Writers can get the core knowledge of a prestigious $50,000 MFA program without paying tuition. With sound, nuts-and-bolts instruction and real-world career advice, this book is the only book speaking directly to the tens of thousands each year who don’t make it into MFA programs. The topics include magazine writing, memoir and personal essay, poetry, fiction, playwriting and more: inspiration and tips on revision, stamina and productivity; clear instruction on the craft behind (more…)
Posted by qpen on April 18, 2010
The Gregg Reference Manual, 10/e by Sabin is intended for anyone who writes, edits, or prepares material for distribution or publication. For nearly fifty years, this manual has been recognized as the best style manual for business professionals and for students who want to master the on-the-job standards of business professionals. GRM provides answers that can-t be found in comparable manuals. That probably explains why GRM has received so many unsolicited 5-star reviews on the (more…)
Posted by qpen on April 15, 2010
An Excerpt from the book-Songs of a SourdoughTHE LAW OF THE YUKON This is the law of the Yukon, and ever she makes it plain: “Send not your foolish and feeble; send me your strong and your sane. Strong for the red rage of battle; sane, for I harry them sore; Send me men girt for the combat, men who are grit to the core; Swift as the panther in triumph, fierce as the bear in defeat, Sired of a bulldog parent, steeled in the furnace heat. Send me the best of y (more…)
Posted by qpen on April 12, 2010
A bestseller through six editions, Writing Fiction by novelists Janet Burroway and Elizabeth Stuckey-French explores the elements of fiction, providing practical writing techniques and concrete examples. Written in a tone that is personal and non-prescriptive, this book encourages writers to develop proficiency through each step of the writing process, offering an abundance of exercises designed to spur writing and creativity. The text Writing Fiction also integrates diverse (more…)
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Posted by qpen on April 10, 2010
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“An amusing, chatty style that sets it apart from text books and keeps you believing that the writer is really on your side.” — Breakthrough”An amusing, chatty style that sets it apart from text books and keeps you believing that the writer is really on your side.” — Breakthrough”An excellent guide providing user-friendly instructions…accessible.” — Bookwatch, July 1999″Clear, concise, thorough, funny — and only $9.95. Stewart’s entertaining prose makes for a pai (more…)
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“…That mechanical engineer would probably do better to pick up Oliveira and Stewart’s Writing Scientific Software: A Guide to Good Style, whose subtitle could equally well have been “Things Computational Scientists Ought to Know”. The chapter titles are a good summary of its contents: basics of computer organization, software design, data structures, design for testing and debugging, global vs. local optimization, memory bugs and leaks, Unix tools, and so on. The writing (more…)
Posted by qpen on April 9, 2010
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Emerson, author of the Lady Appleton and Diana Spaulding mystery series, turns her hand to how it’s done in this useful guide to writing historical crime fiction. Drawing on her own works and those of her fellow historical-mystery writers (Kerry Greenwood, Alan Gordon, Carola Dunn, and others), she lays out, in commonsense sequence, the stages of planning and writing a historical mystery. Chapters on choosing setting and character, research, crafting a plot, and s (more…)
