The Extroverted Writer: An Author's Guide to Marketing and Building a Platform
10 best books like The Extroverted Writer: An Author's Guide to Marketing and Building a Platform (Amanda Luedeke): Extraordinary Dreams of an Ireland Traveler, Writing 21st Century Fiction: High Impact Techniques for Exceptional Storytelling, Writing with Emotion, Tension, and Conflict: Techniques for Crafting an Expressive and Compelling Novel, Mad Science: Einstein's Fridge, Dewar's Flask, Mach's Speed, and 362 Other Inventions and Discoveries that Made Our World, Plot Versus Character: A Balanced Approach to Writing Great Fiction, Get Known Before the Book Deal: Use Your Personal Strengths to Grow an Author Platform, Poets in Their Youth, From First Draft to Finished Novel: A Writer's Guide to Cohesive Story Building, An Unlikely Truth, Justice and the Politics of Difference
Extraordinary Dreams of an Ireland Traveler
| Author | Rosemary "Mamie" Adkins |
| ISBN | 9781935586 |
Find romance in Ireland while you move back in time learning about a history so compelling.
Learn the locations you should not miss in Ireland and which ones you may want to think about twice.
There are many tours available so come learn which ones are the best for your dollar - Come travel to Ireland...
Writing 21st Century Fiction: High Impact Techniques for Exceptional Storytelling
| Author | Donald Maass |
| ISBN | 1599634007 |
The first book to provide a concrete framework for writing powerful literary/commercial novels. With this book, literary novelists will: Learn to create compelling plots, while commercial novelists will be able to achieve literary quality writing and win critical respect. Examine examples,...
Writing with Emotion, Tension, and Conflict: Techniques for Crafting an Expressive and Compelling Novel
| Author | Cheryl St. John |
| ISBN | 1599637588 |
Craft an Emotionally Charged Story That Will Resonate with Readers
Emotional impact shouldn't be dropped into your novel as an afterthought or forced upon your story with a pair of pliers and an iron grip. It should be carefully sewn into the fabric of the story to create tension-filled moments...
| Author | Randy Alfred |
| ISBN | 0316208191 |
365 days of inventions, discoveries, science, and technology, from the editors of Wired Magazine.
On January 30, Rubik applied for a patent on his cube (1975). On the next day, 17 years earlier, the first U.S. Satellite passed through the Van Allen radiation belt. On March 17, the airplane...
| Author | Jeff Gerke |
| ISBN | 1582979928 |
What's more important to a story: a gripping plot or compelling characters? Literary-minded novelists argue in favor of character-based novels while commercial novelists argue in favor of plot-based stories, but the truth of the matter is this: The best fiction is rich in both.
Enter Plot Versus...
Get Known Before the Book Deal: Use Your Personal Strengths to Grow an Author Platform
Christina Katz has packed A LOT into this book. Any aspiring author, almost author, or new author will benefit from her insights on how to create and grow a writing platform.
I was especially impressed with part one, in which she discusses how to discover your platform and what your first steps...
| Author | Eileen Simpson |
| ISBN | 0374522618 |
In 1942, Eileen Simpson—then Eileen Mulligan—married John Berryman. Both were in their twenties; Eileen had just graduated from Hunter College and John had but one slim volume of poetry to his name. They moved frequently—from New York to Boston, then Princeton—chasing jobs, living simply,...
| Author | Karen Wiesner |
| ISBN | 1582975515 |
I originally purchased this book first, and almost immediately ordered the one before it (First Draft in 30 Days), before I read either one - I'm glad I did. (They've been sitting on my shelf gathering dust for over a year and a half - if not two - now...shh ;)
My first impressions of First Draft in...
| Author | John Rachel |
| ISBN | 0615974104 |
Democracy at both the local and national levels recently had been under savage assault. Martin Truth’s fight was but one of many such struggles to restore the meaning of representative government to a system that had been corrupted by big money and corporate power. "An Unlikely Truth" is an engaging...
Justice and the Politics of Difference
| Author | Iris Marion Young |
| ISBN | 0691023158 |
This book challenges the prevailing philosophical reduction of social justice to distributive justice. It critically analyzes basic concepts underlying most theories of justice, including impartiality, formal equality, and the unitary moral subjectivity. Starting from claims of excluded...
Writing for the Soul: Instruction and Advice from an Extraordinary Writing Life
| Author | Jerry B. Jenkins |
| ISBN | 1582974179 |
I really enjoyed the first part of this book. While I haven't enjoyed any of Jenkins fiction works, there is no denying that he has a lot of talent. His words were a blessing for both new and experienced writers. Why didn't I finish reading this book? Honestly, because he took a stand that was not only offensive...
How to Blog a Book: Write, Publish, and Promote Your Work One Post at a Time
| Author | Nina Amir |
| ISBN | 1599635402 |
How to Blog a Book teaches you how to create a blog book with a well-honed and uniquely angled subject and targeted posts--and how to build the audience necessary to convince agents and publishers to make your blog into a book.
Inside you'll find:
Basic information on how to set...
Renaissance 2.0: Carnival of Characters, Crusades, and Causes
| Author | Dean C. Moore |
| ISBN | 1501009478 |
A collapsed global economy. And a world gone to hell. People going postal. There seems but two things to do: cave in to the herculean pressures, or use them to transform from the human to the transhuman. So are born the Renaissance types of the early 21st Century.
One in particular, Robin Wakefield,...
| Author | Darcy Leech |
| ISBN | 1632132249 |
Riveting, soulful, and courageously told, From My Mother is a meditation on grief, family, genetic disease and also a deeply personal account of the narrator’s coming-of-age amid medical crisis and tragedy to carry on the lessons from her mother to raise her young son. A story of loss, From My Mother...
The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt and 'the Final Solution'
| Author | Bernard J. Bergen |
| ISBN | 0847692094 |
This highly original book is the first to explore the political and philosophical consequences of Hannah Arendt's concept of 'the banality of evil, ' a term she used to describe Adolph Eichmann, architect of the Nazi 'final solution.' According to Bernard J. Bergen, the questions that preoccupied...
Opening Line: “I am torturing my father, Colin.”
I’ll be honest (based on the blurb) this wasn’t quite what I was expecting; yes there’s punk rock, heroin abuse and dysfunctional parents. But there’s also you Adam Sharp, and your life story is so much more than that.
Daddy...
Be a Sex-Writing Strumpet
Stacia Kane writes novels filled with “...flaming hot sex...” (Romantic Times), “...sizzling romance that heats up every page ...” (Darque Reviews), and “...spicy sex scenes beautiful enough to make you cry and hot enough to steam windows at the same time...” (Michele Lee). She has...
Passions of the Mind: Selected Writings
| Author | A.S. Byatt |
| ISBN | 0679736786 |
Perfectly named book about AS Byatt's own mind as well as the minds of George Eliot and the section she calls: The Female Voice (Cather, Bowen, Plath, Toni Morrison even Georgette Heyer, despite Germaine Greer's ferious dis). I especially liked her attack on Barbara Pym, although I could only stomach...
Clean: A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity
| Author | Virginia Smith |
| ISBN | 0199297797 |
In this pioneering book, Virginia Smith combines archeology, psychology, biology, and sociology to reveal how and why standards of cleanliness have come to exist today. Using hundreds of first-hand accounts and sources, Smith bring us from the Neolithic age to the present, peppering her engaging...
How Did You End Up Here?: The Surprising Ways Our Questions Connect Us
What do the questions we ask others, even complete strangers, reveal about ourselves? And can the answers we seek shape our own lives and dreams? Davy Rothbart wants to know. Rothbart — a writer, reporter, and documentary filmmaker — is known for his curiosity about other people’s lives. Whether...
The People's Songs: The Story of Modern Britain in 50 Records
These are the songs that have been listened to, laughed to, loved to, and labored to, as well as downed tools and danced to. Covering the last seven decades, Stuart Maconie looks at the songs that have been the soundtracks for changing times, and have—just sometimes—changed the way listeners...
10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help
| Author | Benjamin Wiker |
| ISBN | 1596980559 |
You've heard of the "Great Books"?
These are their evil opposites. From Machiavelli's The Prince to Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto to Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, these "influential" books have led to war, genocide, totalitarian oppression, family breakdown, and...
The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America
| Author | Martin Amis |
| ISBN | 0140127194 |
A collection of essays on America by the author of London Fields, Money and Yellow Dog.
At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton, New Jersey, he was excited and frightened by America. As an adult he has approached that confusing country from many arresting angles, and interviewed...
Parenting, Inc.: How the Billion-Dollar Baby Business Has Changed the Way We Raise Our Children
| Author | Pamela Paul |
| ISBN | 0805082492 |
A leading social critic goes inside the billion-dollar baby business to expose the marketing and the myths, helping parents determine what’s worth their money—and what’s a waste
Parenting coaches, ergonomic strollers, music classes, sleep consultants, luxury diaper creams,...
Rise of the Machines--Human Authors in a Digital World
Here we are—the future is now. The machines have taken over. Everything is computerized. People no longer talk, they text. What number do we have to press to get a flesh and blood HUMAN?
It’s easy to feel like we’re losing our humanity when surrounded by computers, cell phones, and text...
