Deadly Doses: A Writer's Guide to Poisons
9 best books like Deadly Doses: A Writer's Guide to Poisons (Serita Stevens): Castle in the Air, The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York, Dragon's Milk, My Story Can Beat Up Your Story: Ten Ways to Toughen Up Your Screenplay from Opening Hook to Knockout Punch, Writing Screenplays That Sell: The Complete, Step-By-Step Guide for Writing and Selling to the Movies and TV, from Story Concept to Development Deal, How Not to Write a Screenplay: 101 Common Mistakes Most Screenwriters Make, Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach, The Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives, Writing the Blockbuster Novel
| Author | Diana Wynne Jones |
| ISBN | 0064473457 |
In which a humble young carpet merchant wins, then loses, the princess of his dreams
Far to the south of the land of Ingary, in the Sultanates of Rashpuht, there lived in the city of Zanzib a young and not very prosperous carpet dealer named Abdullah who loved to spend his time daydreaming. He was...
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
| Author | Deborah Blum |
| ISBN | 1594202435 |
Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the very best mystery fiction, shares the untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City. In The Poisoner's Handbook Blum draws from highly original research to track the fascinating, perilous days...
| Author | Susan Fletcher |
| ISBN | 0689716230 |
"You must go to the dragon. You must leave tonight."
Before she even hears the words, Kaeldra already knows what she must do. She must search out the mother dragon whose draclings have just hatched and somehow get some of her precious milk. It's the only way to save her foster-sister's life. Kaeldra...
| Author | Jeffrey Schechter |
| ISBN | 1932907939 |
My Story Can Beat Up Your Story! is the same powerful, easy-to-learn system that industry insiders have used to generate millions of dollars in script sales and ?assignments. In a clear, step-by-step fashion, this book is a fun, eye-opening, ?brain-expanding, and often irreverent guide to writing...
| Author | Michael Hauge |
| ISBN | 0062725009 |
I find that when I’m blocked with my writing, reading a how-to book can inspire me. I’m a novelist who only occasionally wonders if I have it in me to turn one of my manuscripts into a teleplay or screenplay. The basics of storytelling, regardless of genre, are the same. Namely, your hero needs a goal,...
| Author | Denny Martin Flinn |
| ISBN | 1580650155 |
I looked at over a dozen books giving advice on how to write a screenplay for a feature film before I chose "How Not to Write a Screenplay." The other books were filled with fluffy, meaningless encouragement like "Before you turn in your Oscar-winning script..." My eyes couldn't roll back far enough into...
| Author | Paul Joseph Gulino |
| ISBN | 0826415687 |
The great challenge in writing a feature-length screenplay is sustaining audience involvement from page one through 120. Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach expounds on an often-overlooked tool that can be key in solving this problem. A screenplay can be understood as being built of sequences...
Among the many "how-to" playwriting books that have appeared over the years, there have been few that attempt to analyze the mysteries of play construction. Lajos Egri's classic, The Art of Dramatic Writing, does just that, with instruction that can be applied equally well to a short story, novel,...
Writing the Blockbuster Novel
| Author | Albert Zuckerman |
| ISBN | 0898795982 |
Ken Follett and Eileen Goudge, among others, have something in common: They have mastered the craft of building the compelling novels that appear on best-seller lists around the world. And here Albert Zuckerman, agent and editorial advisor to many successful authors in every genre, discloses the...
