Modus Operandi : A Writer's Guide to How Criminals Work

Mauro V. Corvasce
Book - $27.95

Detectives Corvasce and Paglino provide writers with the facts they need to give thier mystery and detective novels necessary grit and authenticity. Writers will learn how criminals carry out murder, arson, smuggling, armed robbery, safecracking, and ...

The Complete Writer's Guide to Heroes and Heroines : Sixteen Master Archetypes

Tami D. Cowden
Book - $27.95

All writers want to create characters who are not only believable, but also capture a reader's interest. The Complete Writer's Guide To Heroes & Heroines, with its reader friendly format and easy-to-use worksheets, grants the writer the freedom to ge ...

The Sincerest Form

Nicholas Delbanco
Paperback - $101.95

Nicolas Delbanco explores the stories and techniques of twelve stylists, from Ernest Hemingway to Jamaica Kincaid, and encourages students to imitate the craft of these master storytellers as they hone their own fiction writing skills.

Plot

Ansen Dibell
Book - $23.95

Teaches fiction writers how to make the choices necessary to create a strong, focused plot that moves, how to test story ideas, handle viewpoints that shift, balance scene and summary, and more.

Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook

Donald Maass
Book - $33.95

This powerful book builds on the success of its predecessor-Writing the Breakout Novel — and takes you to the next level: Improving your work with practical, hands-on lessons and exercises.

With patented techniques from his popular wri ...

Advanced Writing : Fiction and Film

Wells Earl Draughon
Paperback - $41.95

Reader and audience appeal, global constraints, large-scale desiderata, dynamics, consummation scenes, characters, relationships, structure, embodiment, voice, the line level. Developing and testing a theory of writing. Discusses such topics as origi ...

Advanced Writing : Fiction and Film

Wells Earl Draughon
Hardcover - $59.95

Reader and audience appeal, global constraints, large-scale desiderata, dynamics, consummation scenes, characters, relationships, structure, embodiment, voice, the line level. Developing and testing a theory of writing. Discusses such topics as origi ...

The Lie That Tells a Truth : A Guide to Writing Fiction

John Dufresne
Paperback - $25.95

A TRULY CREATIVE--and hilarious--guide to creative writing, full of encouragement and sound advice, from the acclaimed author of "Love Warps the Mind a Little and "Deep in the Shade of Paradise. This is an essential guide for writers in general, fict ...

Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

Umberto Eco
Paperback - $24.95

In this exhilarating book, companion and guide Umberto Eco--bestselling author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum--explores the intricacies of fictional form and method. Eco makes readers his collaborators in the creation of his text and ...

Hooked : Write Fiction That Grabs Readers at Page One & Never Lets Them Go

Les Edgerton
Paperback - $23.95

The first pages are the #1 key to acceptance or rejection of manuscripts--most agents and editors claim to make their decision on a manuscript after the very first page, which means that no writer can afford to have a weak story beginningThe first an ...