Posted by qpen on April 6, 2010
From School Library Journal
YA–A thorough and informative guide. Wooley discusses writing in the genre and explores many facets of developing the skill and expertise required to attract the publishing community and appeal to the reading public. She emphasizes the importance of patient and detailed research and includes numerous examples of superb historical fiction. The author offers budding writers many helpful pointers and much sage advice, including the essential acquisition (more…)
Posted by qpen on December 15, 2009
This is the Book Every Travel Writer Has Waited For! Travel writing may be an art-but putting together a guidebook is a craft! Author Barbara Hudgins offers a minimum of hype and a maximum of help for anyone who has ever dreamed of putting their travel lore into prose. Crafting the Travel Guidebook shows the reader how to find his category and his audience, how create a format, construct a framework and flow the chapters. It also offers a heaping helping of travel-writing tips (more…)
Posted by qpen on November 29, 2009
Review
How do you feel when someone says: I want tell you about my product? Ready to run away in horror, right? What about when someone says Let me tell you a story? Now that s interesting! Casey Hibbard is an expert in Success-Story Marketing and her terrific book Stories that Sell will help you reach people in the best way possible, through customer storytelling. –David Meerman Scott, Bestselling author of The New Rules of Marketing and PRIn the age of The Jaded Customer, comp (more…)
Posted by qpen on October 28, 2009
This book reveals insider information to help you avoid the pitfalls of rejection in writing a book.
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Posted by qpen on October 22, 2009
More than 6,000 words and phrases that make the difference between “yadda-yadda-yadda” and copy that sells Looking for a better way to say “authentic?” Words That Sell gives you 57 alternatives. How about “appealing?” Take your pick from 76 synonyms. You’ll even find more than 100 variations on “exciting.” Fully updated and expanded, this edition of the copywriting classic is packed with inspiration-on-demand for busy professionals who need to win customers–by mail, online, or (more…)
