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The Sound on the Page: Great Writers Talk about Style and Voice in Writing

10 best books like The Sound on the Page: Great Writers Talk about Style and Voice in Writing (Ben Yagoda): "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman, The House of God, The Luminous Dead, To Be Taught, If Fortunate, Desdemona and the Deep, Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print, The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile, Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing, A Child Across the Sky, Shatterday

"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman
AuthorHarlan Ellison
ISBN1887424350
In a future where humanity has become obsessed with timekeeping and punctuality, a single mysterious figure tries to make a change, by wasting everybody's time.

Try reading that in a deep movie trailer voice.

“Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman is a whimsical and satirical...
The House of God
AuthorSamuel Shem
ISBN0385337388
The hilarious novel of the healing arts that reveals everything your doctor never wanted you to know.

Six eager interns  -- they saw themselves as modern saviors-to-be.   They came from the top of their medical school class  to the bottom of the hospital staff to serve a  year in...
The Luminous Dead
AuthorCaitlin Starling
A thrilling, atmospheric debut with the intensive drive of The Martian and Gravity and the creeping dread of Annihilation, in which a caver on a foreign planet finds herself on a terrifying psychological and emotional journey for survival.

When Gyre Price lied her way into this expedition,...
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
AuthorBecky Chambers
ISBN0062936018
In her new novella, Sunday Times best-selling author Becky Chambers imagines a future in which, instead of terraforming planets to sustain human life, explorers of the solar system instead transform themselves.

Ariadne is one such explorer. As an astronaut on an extrasolar research vessel,...
Desdemona and the Deep
AuthorC.S.E. Cooney
In Desdemona and the Deep, the spoiled daughter of a rich mining family must retrieve the tithe of men her father promised to the world below. On the surface, her world is rife with industrial pollution that ruins the health of poor factory workers while the idle rich indulge themselves in unheard-of...
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print
AuthorRenni Browne
ISBN0060545690
"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...
The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile
AuthorNoah Lukeman
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...
Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing
AuthorElmore Leonard
ISBN0061451460
"These are the rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what's taking place in the story."—Elmore Leonard

For aspiring writers and lovers of the written word, this concise guide breaks down the writing process with...
A Child Across the Sky
AuthorJonathan Carroll
ISBN0099709503
Just as the the word "weird" has many implications and shades of meaning, so too does the latest--weird--work by this gifted and perplexing writer. As Carroll ( Bones of the Moon ; Sleeping in Flame ) himself says, "Life has a habit of turning dark corners." Applied here, this observation seems an understatement:...
Shatterday
AuthorHarlan Ellison
A five-year-old boy never ages, living as an immortal in a past that no longer exists while the world encroaches upon his innocence, in the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning “Jeffty Is Five.”

An alien attack leaves Earth on the brink of Armageddon, as humans find themselves unable to resist...
How Novels Work
AuthorJohn Mullan
ISBN0199281777
Drawing on his weekly Guardian column, "Elements of Fiction," John Mullan offers an engaging look at the novel, focusing mostly on works of the last ten years as he illuminates the rich resources of novelistic technique.
Mullan sheds light on some of the true masterworks of contemporary fiction,...
Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings
AuthorPaul Theroux
ISBN0618126937
Paul Theroux's first collection of essays and articles devoted entirely to travel writing, FRESH AIR FIEND touches down on five continents and floats through most seas in between to deliver a literary adventure of the first order, with the incomparable Paul Theroux as a guide. From the crisp quiet...
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