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Book Review: The Year We Left Home by Jean Thompson
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Book Review: Mastering Creative Anxiety by Eric Maisel
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Book Review: Strange Flesh by Michael Olson
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Book Review: Wired for Story: The Writer’s Guide to Using Brain Science to...
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Book Review: Get Lucky by Thor Muller and Lane Becker
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View ArticleBook Review: The Accidents of Style: Good Advice on How Not to Write Badly by...
If you can endure a metaphor stretched beyond its limits through more than 250 pages of text, you’re ready for Charles Harrington Elster’s latest book on writing style. It is not, however, a style book...
View ArticleBook Review: The Writer’s Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the...
It’s good that someone sent me Eric Maisel’s latest creativity volume, Mastering Creative Anxiety. I’ll need it if I put into operation the writing plans suggested by Priscilla Long’s The Writer’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Book Review: The Year We Left Home by Jean Thompson
Any savvy reader would jump at the chance to receive a copy of a Jean Thompson novel, especially this one. The Year We Left Home is her first since 2005 and some consider it to be her definitive work...
View ArticleBook Review: How to Make Real Money Selling: (Without Worrying About Returns)...
With everyone and his dog becoming self-publishers, it seems fitting that everyone (and his dog, if he can read) needs information about being a publisher. Which is, selling books. But, you may point...
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Book Review: Mastering Creative Anxiety by Eric Maisel
“Anxiety is the number one problem that creative people face,” declares Dr. Eric Maisel, “and yet few even realize it.” His newest book to help creatives unleash their inner resources is Mastering...
View ArticleBook Review: No More Rejections: 50 Secrets to Writing a Manuscript that...
Pay attention to that subtitle because it describes Alice Orr’s book better than the title does. The kinds of manuscripts, however, are mainly genre novels. Nonfiction writers need not apply, unless...
View ArticleBook Review: Sunrise of Avalon by Anna Elliott
A nice holiday gift for any historical novel lover is this third and final book in Anna Elliott’s Twilight of Avalon trilogy. The Sunrise of Avalon tells the finale of the romance of Tristan and...
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Book Review: Strange Flesh by Michael Olson
This just released: Simon & Schuster’s “adult publishing group” novel Strange Flesh, debut novel by Michael Olson. I thought it was a story of incest. This is the sentence that gave me that...
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Book Review: Wired for Story: The Writer’s Guide to Using Brain Science to...
Books on the craft of writing generally fall into two categories: how to write well and how to tell a story well. Most deal with writing words: grammar, style guides, literary devices, structure,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Book Review: Get Lucky by Thor Muller and Lane Becker
Get Lucky: How to Put Planned Serenditipty to Work for You and Your Business is based on the latest research in the behavioral sciences of the world’s most successful and brightest entrepreneurs — the...
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