Finding Your Voice: How to Put Personality in Your Writing
10 best books like Finding Your Voice: How to Put Personality in Your Writing (Les Edgerton): The Broken Kingdoms, Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, The Kingdom of Gods, A Feast of Snakes, Panic, You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting, The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller, Scene & Structure, The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression
| Author | N.K. Jemisin |
| ISBN | 0316043966 |
In the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic and godlings live hidden among mortalkind. Oree Shoth, a blind artist, takes in a homeless man who glows like a living sun to her strange sight. This act of kindness engulfs Oree in a nightmarish conspiracy. Someone, somehow,...
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
| Author | Steve Krug |
| ISBN | 0321965515 |
Since Don’t Make Me Think was first published in 2000, over 400,000 Web designers and developers have relied on Steve Krug’s guide to help them understand the principles of intuitive navigation and information design.
In this 3rd edition, Steve returns with fresh perspective to reexamine...
If this had been the first book, I wouldn't have read the other two. In fact, after reading this one, I went back re-read the first one to try to recall what I had liked about the series in the first place.
OH YEAH: That book had consistent character development, measured pacing, and a coherent plot.
I...
| Author | Harry Crews |
| ISBN | 0684842483 |
From the acclaimed author of such novels as "Blood and Grits" and "Childhood" comes a wildly weird and breathtakingly original visit to the rural South that reveals the exotic subculture that erupts in all its glory at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Mystic, Georgia. "No number of adjectives in the thesaurus...
| Author | Lauren Oliver |
| ISBN | 0062014552 |
Panic began as so many things do in Carp, a dead-end town of 12,000 people in the middle of nowhere: because it was summer, and there was nothing else to do.
Heather never thought she would compete in Panic, a legendary game played by graduating seniors, where the stakes are high and the payoff...
| Author | Deborah Tannen |
| ISBN | 0060959622 |
From the author of New York Times bestseller You're Wearing That? this bestselling classic work draws upon groundbreaking research by an acclaimed sociolinguist to show that women and men live in different worlds, made of different words.
Women and men live in different worlds...made...
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
| Author | Robert McKee |
| ISBN | 0060391685 |
Robert McKee's screenwriting workshops have earned him an international reputation for inspiring novices, refining works in progress and putting major screenwriting careers back on track. Quincy Jones, Diane Keaton, Gloria Steinem, Julia Roberts, John Cleese and David Bowie are just a few of...
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
| Author | John Truby |
| ISBN | 0865479518 |
John Truby is one of the most respected and sought-after story consultants in the film industry, and his students have gone on to pen some of Hollywood's most successful films, including Sleepless in Seattle, Scream, and Shrek. The Anatomy of Story is his long-awaited first book, and it shares all...
| Author | Jack M. Bickham |
| ISBN | 0898799066 |
Craft your fiction with scene-by-scene flow, logic and readability. An imprisoned man receives an unexpected caller, after which "everything changed..."
And the reader is hooked. But whether or not readers will stay on for the entire wild ride will depend on how well the writer structures...
The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression
The bestselling Emotion Thesaurus, often hailed as “the gold standard for writers” and credited with transforming how writers craft emotion, has now been expanded to include 55 new entries!One of the biggest struggles for writers is how to convey emotion to readers in a unique and compelling...
| Author | Ken Bruen |
| ISBN | 0312353510 |
Jack Taylor is walking the delicate edge of a sobriety he doesn't trust when his phone rings. He's in debt to a Galway tough named Bill Cassell, what the locals call a "hard man." Bill did Jack a big favor a while back; the trouble is, he never lets a favor go unreturned.
Jack is amazed when Cassell...
The L.A. Quartet: The Black Dahlia, the Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz
Here in one volume is James Ellroy's first great body of work, an epic re-envisioning of postwar Los Angeles--etched in red and black and film-noir grays.
The Black Dahlia depicts the secret infrastructure of L.A.'s most sensational murder case. A young cop morphs into obsessed lover and...
Four Novels of the 1980s: City Primeval / LaBrava / Glitz / Freaky Deaky
| Author | Elmore Leonard |
| ISBN | 1598534122 |
The 1980s was the decade when Elmore Leonard came into his own as the most popular and critically acclaimed crime writer in America. The four novels collected here show him at the top of his game. Each in its own way displays his unique ear for the jazzy cadences of American speech, his ability to create...
| Author | John Vercher |
| ISBN | 1947993674 |
A compelling and timely debut novel from an assured new voice: Three-Fifths is about a biracial black man, passing for white, who is forced to confront the lies of his past while facing the truth of his present when his best friend, just released from prison, involves him in a hate crime.
Pittsburgh,...
| Author | Truman Capote |
| ISBN | 0141184612 |
At the centre of Music for Chameleons is Handcarved Coffins, a ‘nonfiction novel’ based on the brutal crimes of a real-life murderer.Taking place in a small Midwestern town in America, it offers chilling insights into the mind of a killer and the obsession of the man bringing him to justice. Also...
Naked Therapist - A Canterbury Tales collection of embarrassing moments from more than a dozen eminent psychotherapists
| Author | Sheldon B. Kopp |
| ISBN | 0912736186 |
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Take the Leap: Change Your Career, Change Your Life
| Author | Sara Bliss |
| ISBN | 1501183184 |
A road map for landing your dream job.
Take the Leap features inspiration and advice from more than sixty-five people who transformed their lives—and with this guide, so can you. These are game changers, rule breakers, and side hustlers who once stood where you are now, wondering if they...
You're the Only One I Can Tell: Inside the Language of Women's Friendships
| Author | Deborah Tannen |
| ISBN | 0525493026 |
Best friend, old friend, good friend, bff, college roommate, neighbor, workplace confidante: Women's friendships are a lifeline in times of trouble and a support system for daily life. A friend can be like a sister, daughter, mother, mentor, therapist, or confessor--or she can be all of these at once....
In this second new LUCIFER edition, the Lightbringer is hard at work on a New Creation outside the bounds of any authority but his own, complete with a new pair of inhabitants for a new Garden of Eden. But as he tries his hand at universe building, back on Earth (and in Hell) schemes and betrayals continue...
My Little Pony: Nightmare Knights
Equestria's in danger! With Twilight Sparkle and her friends unable to help, can Princess Luna and a team of reformed villains save the day?
Powerless and threatened by a great evil, Princess Luna discovers she can't count on her sister or any of the usual heroes of Equestria. Running out of...
