How I Write: Secrets of a Bestselling Author
10 best books like How I Write: Secrets of a Bestselling Author (Janet Evanovich): The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men's Prison, Our Only May Amelia, Eliza Hamilton: The Extraordinary Life and Times of the Wife of Alexander Hamilton, Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly, Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World, Evidence of Murder, Jack the Ripper, Save the Cat! Writes a Novel, Writing Great Fiction: Storytelling Tips and Techniques, How to Write a Book This Weekend, Even If You Flunked English Like I Did
| Author | Mikita Brottman |
| ISBN | 0062384333 |
A riveting account of the two years literary scholar Mikita Brottman spent reading literature with criminals in a maximum-security men’s prison outside Baltimore, and what she learned from them—Orange Is the New Black meets Reading Lolita in Tehran.
On sabbatical from teaching literature...
| Author | Jennifer L. Holm |
| ISBN | 0064408566 |
It isn′t easy being a pioneer in the state of Washington in 1899, but it′s particularly hard when you are the only girl ever born in the new settlement. With seven older brothers and a love of adventure, May Amelia Jackson just can′t seem to abide her family′s insistence that she behave like a Proper...
Eliza Hamilton: The Extraordinary Life and Times of the Wife of Alexander Hamilton
| Author | Tilar J. Mazzeo |
| ISBN | 1501166301 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of Irena’s Children comes a comprehensive and riveting biography of the extraordinary life and times of Eliza Hamilton, the wife of founding father Alexander Hamilton, and a powerful, unsung hero in America’s early days.
Fans fell in love with...
| Author | Gail Carson Levine |
| ISBN | 0060519606 |
In Writing Magic, Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine shares her secrets of great writing. She shows how you, too, can get terrific ideas for stories, invent great beginnings and endings, write sparkling dialogue, develop memorable characters—and much, much more. She advises you about what...
| Author | Claire Harman |
| ISBN | 1847672949 |
Jane's Fame tells the fascinating story of Jane Austen's renown, from the years of rejection the author faced during her lifetime to the global recognition and adoration she now enjoys. Almost two hundred years after her death, Austen remains a hot topic, constantly open to revival and reinterpretation...
| Author | Lisa Black |
| ISBN | 0061544485 |
Jillian Perry has been found dead in the woods, leaving behind a husband of three weeks and a young daughter. Her body shows no visible marks, and the autopsy reveals no sign of foul play. Apparently it was a suicide—Jillian purposely wandered into the forest and succumbed to the freezing weather....
| Author | Mark Whitehead |
| ISBN | 1904048692 |
Jack the ripper This was a book I picked up at my local library that I've wanted to read it for some time. But never got around to it, so I put it down for reserve. There's a whole mystery to jack the Ripper. If your a cockney or from London it's likely you will know the case inside out. As it was one of those...
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel
SAVE THE CAT!® by Blake Snyder is a popular screenwriting book series and storytelling methodology used by screenwriters, directors, and studio execs across Hollywood. Now, for the first time ever, bestselling author and writing teacher, Jessica Brody, takes the beloved Save the Cat! plotting...
Writing Great Fiction: Storytelling Tips and Techniques
Whether you're huddled around the campfire, composing an email to a friend, or sitting down to write a novel, storytelling is fundamental to human nature. But as any writer can tell you, the blank page can be daunting. It's tough to know where to get started, what details to include in each scene, and how...
How to Write a Book This Weekend, Even If You Flunked English Like I Did
| Author | Vic Johnson |
| ISBN | 1469025515 |
"Who Else Wants To Write a Book This Weekend?"
It's easier than you think!
Best-selling author Vic Johnson actually wrote this book in a weekend to prove how easy it is. And he gives you step-by-step detail of everything he did, including the resources he uses to turn out content-rich...
Love and Death in the Sunshine State: The Story of a Crime
| Author | Cutter Wood |
| ISBN | 1616207302 |
“I was convinced that somewhere in this pile of anecdotes and photographs and recollections was the vital clue, the detail that would make everything slide into place, and as I began to assemble all the information I’d gathered into an idea of a woman, I imagined myself at the head of a troupe of deputies...
| Author | Marcia Muller |
| ISBN | 0446404209 |
BOTTOM LINE: An early work, this first novel of Muller's second series is decently plotted and has fairly good characters, but is unfortunately predictable all the way through. The Chicana second-in-command of a folk art museum finds herself caught in a web of deceit, embezzlement, and murder, and...
An Unexplained Death: The True Story of a Body at the Belvedere
| Author | Mikita Brottman |
| ISBN | 1250169143 |
An Unexplained Death is an obsessive investigation into a mysterious death at the Belvedere--a once-grand hotel--and a poignant, gripping meditation on suicide and voyeurism
"The poster is new. I notice it right away, taped to a utility pole. Beneath the word 'Missing, ' printed in a bold,...
| Author | Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson |
| ISBN | 1611090997 |
From celebrated author Viktor Arnar Ingolfsson comes an atmospheric and gripping tale of ambition, technology, and the twisted history of Iceland's railway.
On a cold January morning in 1973, inside a stately old house in Reykjavik, blood pools around Jacob Kieler Junior from a fatal gunshot...
Love in the Present Tense
| Author | Catherine Ryan Hyde |
| ISBN | 0385518005 |
For five years Pearl has managed to keep the past from catching up to her and her bright, frail five-year-old son. Life has given her every reason to mistrust people, but circumstances force her to trust her neighbor Mitch with watching Leonard while she goes off to work. Then one day Pearl drops her son...
Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change
| Author | Leonard Mlodinow |
| ISBN | 0147521947 |
From the best-selling author of Subliminal and The Drunkard's Walk, a groundbreaking new look at the neuroscience of change, and at how tapping into elastic thinking will help us thrive in the modern world.
Drawing on cutting-edge research, Leonard Mlodinow takes us on an illuminating journey...
The Last Collection: A Novel of Elsa Schiaparelli and Coco Chanel
| Author | Jeanne Mackin |
| ISBN | 1101990546 |
An American woman becomes entangled in the intense rivalry between iconic fashion designers Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli in this captivating novel from the acclaimed author of The Beautiful American.
Paris, 1938. Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli are fighting for recognition as...
