Island Home : Why People Come to Martha's Vineyard and Why They Stay

Elaine Pace
Paperback - $32.95

A heartfelt journey of discovery -- the author unravels the mystery of the kinds of people who move to an island and plan to spend the rest of their lives there. Interviewed are fishermen, artists, musicians, farmers, conservationists, ministers, and ...

Making History : How to Remember, Record, Interpret, and Share the Events in Your Life

Kim Pearson
Paperback - $52.95

A comprehensive, easy to use, fun method of exploring the times of your life against a backdrop of historic events. "Making History" helps you to discover your place in history, to remember the stories you thought you had forgotten, and to create pow ...

You Can Be an Author Even If You're Not a Writer

Kim Pearson
Paperback - $25.95

Is There a Book Inside You? : A Step-By-Step Plan for Writing Your Book

Dan Poynter
Paperback - $23.95

With this step-by-step plan, the reader will learn how to break the topic down into easy-to-attack projects; how and where to do research; a process that makes writing easy; how to improve material; how to evaluate publishing options and how to devel ...

Writing Nonfiction : Turning Thoughts Into Books

Dan Poynter
Paperback - $30.95

Recent changes in technology are making book writing faster, easier, and cheaper. Prospective authors will discover how to break the topic down, use Web resources, devise a layout process, improve material, evaluate publishing options, and develop an ...

Thinking Like Your Editor : How to Write Great Serious Nonfiction--And Get It Published

Susan Rabiner
Paperback - $24.95

This is the book editors have been recommending to would-be authors who might be shocked to hear that a fine writing style usually plays only a tiny role in whether a proposal becomes a book. Instead, according to the authors, the freshness of ideas ...

The Art of Nonfiction : A Guide for Writers and Readers

Ayn Rand
Book - $23.95

Culled from sixteen informal lectures Ayn Rand delivered to a select audience in the late 1960s, this remarkable work offers indispensable guidance to the aspiring writer of nonfiction while providing readers with a fascinating discourse on art and c ...

Writing Life Stories

Bill Roorbach
Book - $23.95

A friendly instruction book for writers, this guide offers stimulating exercises to teach writers how to open up memory, shape scenes from experience, develop characters, and more.

The Fourth Genre : Contemporary Writers Of/On Creative Nonfiction

Jr. Root
Paperback - $126.95

Helps in writing creative nonfiction. This best-selling anthology is a comprehensive and indispensable introduction to the way creative nonfiction is written today. General Interest; Writing Nonfiction

True Stories : Guides for Writing from Your Life

Rebecca Rule
Paperback - $35.95

Rule and Wheeler help new and experienced writers commit stories to paper.