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BOOKSTORE INDEX

Motivation & Inspiration
Marketing Your Work
Fiction
Non-fiction
Specific Genres
Improving Your Writing

MOTIVATION & INSPIRATION

• For Writers Only by Sophy Burnham
  Hardcover | Paperback

• The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
  Paperback

• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
  Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette

• Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande
  Paperback

• Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writer's Manual by Rita Mae Brown
  Paperback

• Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
  Hardcover | Paperback

• Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life by Natalie Goldberg
  Paperback | Audio Cassette

• If You Can Talk, You Can Write by Joel Saltzman
  Paperback

• If You're Writing, Let's Talk: A Road Map Past Writers' Blocks from Page One to the End by Joel Saltzman
  Paperback

• James A. Michener's Writer's Handbook: Explorations in Writing and Publishing by James A. Michener
  Paperback

• If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence, and Spirit (10th Edition) by Brenda Ueland
  Paperback

• Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity by Ray Bradbury
  Expanded Edition | Paperback

MARKETING YOUR WORK

Submissions

• The Writer's Digest Guide to Manuscript Formats by Dian Dincin Buchman & Seli Groves
  Hardcover
• How to Write Irresistable Query Letters by Lisa Collier Cool
  Paperback
• How to Write a Book Proposal (Revised Edition) by Michael Larsen
  Paperback
• Write the Perfect Book Proposal: 10 Proposals That Sold and Why by Jeff Herman & Deborah M. Adams
  Paperback

 

Copyright

• Every Writer's Guide to Copyright and Publishing Law (2nd Edition) by Ellen M. Kozak
  Paperback
• The Copyright Handbook: How to Protect and Use Written Works (3rd Edition) by Stephen Fishman
  Paperback

 

Literary Agents

• Literary Agents: What They Do, How They Do It, and How to Find and Work With the Right One for You by Michael Larsen
  Paperback
• How to be Your Own Literary Agent: The Business of Getting Your Book Published by Richard Curtis
  Paperback
• 1999/2000 Writer's Guide to Book Editors, Publishers, and Literary Agents by Jeff Herman
  CD-ROM | Paperback

 

Market Directories

• 1999 Writer's Market by Kirsten C. Holm (Editor)
  Paperback
• 1999 Writer's Market: 8,000 Editors Who Buy What You Write by Mark Garvey (Editor)
  Paperback & CD
• 1998 Writer's Market by Kirsten C. Holm (Editor)
  Paperback
• 1998 Writer's Market: 4,000 Places to Sell What You Write by Mark Garvey (Editor)
  Paperback & CD | software (CD)
• 1999 Novel and Short Story Writer's Market by Barbara Kuroff (Editor)
  Paperback
• 1998 Novel and Short Story Writer's Market: 2,200 Places to Sell Your Fiction by Barbara Kuroff (Editor)
  Paperback
• 1999 Poet's Market by Chantelle Bentley (Editor)
  Paperback
• 1999 Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market by Alice P. Buening & Alice Pope (Editors)
  Paperback
• 1998 Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market by Alice P. Buening (Editor)
  Paperback
• Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer's Sourcebook: Where to Sell Your Manuscripts (2nd Edition) by David H. Borcherding (Editor)
  Hardcover

FICTION

• Fiction Writer's Handbook by Hallie Burnett & Whit Burnett
  Paperback
• Freeing Your Creativity: A Writer's Guide by Marshall J. Cook
  Paperback
• The Art of Creative Writing by Lajos Egri
  Paperback
• The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers by John Gardner
  Paperback
• Character and Viewpoint (Elements of Fiction Writing) by Orson Scott Card
  Hardcover
• Scene and Structure (The Elements of Fiction Writing) by Jack Bicknam
  Hardcover
• Writing the Novel: From Plot to Print by Lawrence Block
  Paperback
• Writing the Blockbuster Novel by Albert Zuckerman
  Hardcover
• On Writing the Short Story by Hallie Burnett
  Paperback
• Writing in General, and the Short Story in Particular: An Informal Textbook by Rust Hills
  Paperback
• Creating Short Fiction by Damon Knight
  Paperback

NON-FICTION

• On Writing Well: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction (6th Edition) by William Zinsser
  Paperback | Audio cassette
• Living to Tell the Tale: A Guide to Writing Memoir by Jane Taylor McDonnell
  Paperback
• Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir (Revised Edition) by William Zinsser & Russell Baker (Editors)
  Paperback
• Simple and Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers (Revised Edition) by Jaques Barzun
  Paperback
• Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student by Edward P. J. Corbett
  Hardcover
• The Tech Writing Game: A Comprehensive Career Guide for Aspiring Technical Writers by Janet Van Wicklen
  Hardcover
• Freelance Writing for Magazines and Newspapers: Breaking in Without Selling Out by Marcia Yudkin
  Paperback
• Secrets of a Freelance Writer: How to Make $85,000 a Year by Robert W. Bly
  Paperback

SPECIFIC GENRES

• Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting by Syd Field
  Paperback
• The Art of Dramatic Writing by Lajos Egri
  Paperback
• How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy by Orson Scott Card
  Hardcover
• World-Building (Ben Bova's Science Fiction Writing Series) by Stephen L. Gillett
  Hardcover
• How to Write Tales of Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction by J. N. Williamson (Editor)
  Paperback
• Writing Mysteries : A Handbook by the Mystery Writers of America by Sue Grafton (Editor)
  Hardcover
• How to Write a Romance and Get It Published by Kathryn Falk
  Paperback
• How to Write Romances by Phyllis Taylor Pianka
  Hardcover
• Ten Steps to Publishing Children's Books: How to Develop, Revise & Sell All Kinds of Books for Children by Berthe Amoss & Eric Suben (Contributor)
  Paperback
• Writing and Illustrating Children's Books for Publication: Two Perspectives by Berthe Amoss & Eric Suben
  Hardcover
• Words About Pictures: The Narrative Art of Children's Picture Books by Perry Nodelman
  Paperback

IMPROVING YOUR WRITING

• Revising Fiction: A Handbook for Writers by David Madden
  Paperback
• Self-editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Brown & Dave King
  Paperback
• The Elements of Editing: A Modern Guide for Editors and Journalists by Arthur Plotnik
  Paperback
• The Elements of Style (3rd Edition) by William Strunk & E. B. White
  Hardcover | Paperback
• The Chicago Manual of Style (14th Edition)
  Hardcover
• Modern English Usage (2nd Revised Edition) by Henry Watson Fowler
  Paperback
• The Dictionary of Bias-Free Usage: A Guide to Nondiscriminatory Language by Rosalie Maggio
  Paperback