The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself
10 best books like The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself (Susan Bell): The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777, Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print, Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence, The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile, The Forest for the Trees, The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American Stories Since 1970, Your First Novel: An Author Agent Team Share the Keys to Achieving Your Dream, The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself), What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing, Revision & Self-Editing: Techniques for Transforming Your First Draft Into a Finished Novel
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
Author | Rick Atkinson |
ISBN | 1627790438 |
In the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy Rick Atkinson recounts the first twenty-one months of America’s violent war for independence. From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, American militiamen and then the ragged Continental...
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print
Author | Renni Browne |
ISBN | 0060545690 |
"A superb tutorial for anyone wanting to learn from pros how to polish fiction writing with panache."-- Library Journal
Hundreds of books have been written on the art of writing. Here at last is a book by two professional editors to teach writers the techniques of the editing trade that turn...
Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence
Author | Lisa Cron |
ISBN | 1607742454 |
This guide reveals how writers can utilize cognitive storytelling strategies to craft stories that ignite readers’ brains and captivate them through each plot element.
Imagine knowing what the brain craves from every tale it encounters, what fuels the success of any great story,...
The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile
The First Five Pages
Editors always tell novice writers that the first few pages of a manuscript are crucial in the publishing process -- and it's true. If an editor or agent (or reader) loses interest after a page or two, you've lost him or her completely, even if the middle of your novel is brilliant...
Author | Betsy Lerner |
ISBN | 1573228575 |
In this volume, Betsy Lerner, an admired American book editor, shares her editorial wisdom and provides an insider's understanding of the publishing process. From her long experience working with successful writers and discovering new voices, Lerner looks at different writer personality types...
Author | Lex Williford |
ISBN | 0684857960 |
Selected from a survey of more than 200 English professors, award-winning short-story writers, novelists, and fiction workshop directors, a remarkable collection of North American literature written since 1970.
Includes:
This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona by Sherman...
Author | Ann Rittenberg |
ISBN | 1582973881 |
In Your First Novel, novelist Laura Whitcomb and seasoned literary agent Ann Rittenberg team up to provide you with the skills you need to write your dream novel and the savvy business know-how to get it published. In this all-in-one resource, you'll discover essential novel-writing techniques,...
Author | Carol Fisher Saller |
ISBN | 0226734250 |
Each year writers and editors submit over three thousand grammar and style questions to the Q&A page at The Chicago Manual of Style Online. Some are arcane, some simply hilarious—and one editor, Carol Fisher Saller, reads every single one of them. All too often she notes a classic author-editor...
What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing
Editing is an invisible art where the very best work goes undetected. Editors strive to create books that are enlightening, seamless, and pleasurable to read, all while giving credit to the author. This makes it all the more difficult to truly understand the range of roles they inhabit while shepherding...
Revision & Self-Editing: Techniques for Transforming Your First Draft Into a Finished Novel
Author | James Scott Bell |
ISBN | 1582975086 |
Spot and Fix Manuscript Missteps
Don't let the revision process intimidate you any longer. Discover how to successfully transform your first draft into a polished final draft readers won't be able to forget.
In Write Great Fiction: Revision & Self-Editing, James Scott Bell...
The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization
In this groundbreaking book, Martin Puchner leads us on a remarkable journey through time and around the globe to reveal the powerful role stories and literature have played in creating the world we have today. Puchner introduces us to numerous visionaries as he explores sixteen foundational texts...
Author | Don DeLillo |
ISBN | 0743203968 |
The Barnes & Noble Review
In whatever form Don DeLillo chooses to write, there is simply no other American author who has so consistently pushed the boundaries of fiction in his effort to capture the zeitgeist. In The Body Artist, DeLillo tells the hallucinatory tale of performance artist...
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: For Kids
Author | Thomas C. Foster |
ISBN | 0062200879 |
The go-to bestselling guide to help young people navigate from a middle school book report to English Comp 101
In How to Read Literature Like a Professor: For Kids, New York Times bestselling author and professor Thomas C. Foster gives tweens the tools they need to become thoughtful readers.
With...