Setting: How to Create and Sustain a Sharp Sense of Time and Place in Your Fiction

10 best books like Setting: How to Create and Sustain a Sharp Sense of Time and Place in Your Fiction (Jack M. Bickham): Spin the Dawn, Sprig Muslin, Bringing Down the Duke, Well Met, How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy, Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction, Writing the Paranormal Novel: Techniques and Exercises for Weaving Supernatural Elements Into Your Story., The Portable MFA in Creative Writing, Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction, Montessori from the Start: The Child at Home, from Birth to Age Three

Spin the Dawn

Author

Elizabeth Lim

This is a previously published edition of ISBN 9780525646990. An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.


Project Runway meets Mulan in this sweeping YA fantasy about a young girl who poses as a boy to compete for the role of imperial tailor and embarks on an impossible...

Sprig Muslin

Author	Georgette Heyer
ISBN	0099476355

Sir Gareth Ludlow was a sought-after bachelor in London high society -- wealthy, noble, handsome... and brokenhearted since the death of his true love many years ago. Resigned to remarry, Sir Gareth decides to request the hand of a woman he respects and admires -- Lady Hester Thealer. But fate takes...

Bringing Down the Duke

Author	Evie Dunmore
ISBN	1984805681

A stunning debut for author Evie Dunmore and her Oxford Rebels, in which a fiercely independent vicar's daughter takes on a duke in a fiery love story that threatens to upend the British social order.

England, 1879. Annabelle Archer, the brilliant but destitute daughter of a country vicar,...

Well Met

Author

Jen DeLuca

All's faire in love and war for two sworn enemies who indulge in a harmless flirtation in a laugh-out-loud rom-com from debut author, Jen DeLuca.

Emily knew there would be strings attached when she relocated to the small town of Willow Creek, Maryland, for the summer to help her sister recover...

How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy

Author

Orson Scott Card

Writing for science fiction and fantasy audiences can be the most exciting writing you've ever done. Your readers are curious and want you to take them beyond ""The Fields We Know,"" to help them explore the infinite boundaries of the worlds you create.

Here, science fiction great Orson Scott...

Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction

Author	Jeff VanderMeer
ISBN	1419704427

This all-new definitive guide to writing imaginative fiction takes a completely novel approach and fully exploits the visual nature of fantasy through original drawings, maps, renderings, and exercises to create a spectacularly beautiful and inspiring object. Employing an accessible, example-rich...

Writing the Paranormal Novel: Techniques and Exercises for Weaving Supernatural Elements Into Your Story.

Author	Steven Harper
ISBN	1599633019

Vampires, werewolves, and zombies, oh my! Writing a paranormal novel takes more than casting an alluring vampire or arming your hero with a magic wand. It takes an original idea, believable characters, a compelling plot, and surprising twists, not to mention great writing.

This helpful...

The Portable MFA in Creative Writing

Author	The New York Writers Workshop
ISBN	1582973504

Get the core knowledge of a prestigious MFA education without the tuition.

Have you always wanted to get an MFA, but couldn't because of the cost, time commitment, or admission requirements?

Well now you can fulfill that dream without having to devote tons of money or time. The Portable...

Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction

Author

Patricia Highsmith

In 1972 The Authors League reported that 95% of writers in America must hold another job all their lives to make ends meet.

A sobering thought to end this book on the writer's craft from one of the greats of 20th century storytelling. Remind me, why do I want to do this?

The talented Ms Highsmith...

Montessori from the Start: The Child at Home, from Birth to Age Three

Author	Paula Polk Lillard
ISBN	0805211128

What can parents do to help their youngest children in their task of self-formation? How does the Montessori method of hands-on learning and self-discovery relate to the youngest infants? This authoritative and accessible book answers these and many other questions. Based on Dr. Maria Montessori's...

Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver

Author	Jill Heinerth
ISBN	0062691546

From one of the world’s most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth’s final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planet

More people have died exploring underwater caves than climbing Mount Everest, and we know more about deep...