Writer Mama: How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids
10 best books like Writer Mama: How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids (Christina Katz): The Liars' Club, The American Agent, The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile, The Last Widow, Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska, The Spies of Shilling Lane, Campaign Widows, Cherry, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War, The Renegade Writer: A Totally Unconventional Guide to Freelance Writing Success
| Author | Mary Karr |
| ISBN | 0143035746 |
When it was published in 1995, Mary Karr's The Liars Club took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new level, as well as bringing about a dramatic revival of the form. Karr's comic childhood in an east Texas oil town brings us characters as darkly hilarious as any of J. D. Salinger's—a...
| Author | Jacqueline Winspear |
| ISBN | 0062436694 |
Beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, “one of the great fictional heroines” (Parade), investigates the mysterious murder of an American war correspondent in London during the Blitz in a page-turning tale of love and war, terror and survival.
When Catherine Saxon, an American correspondent...
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 | Karin Slaughter |
| ISBN | 0062858084 |
New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter brings back Will Trent and Sara Linton in this superb and timely thriller full of devious twists, disturbing secrets, and shocking surprises you won’t see coming
A mysterious kidnapping
On a hot summer night, a scientist from...
Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska
| Author | Miranda Weiss |
| ISBN | 0061710253 |
Alaska is a place where know-how is currency and a novice's mistakes can kill you. An extreme landscape in both its beauty and challenges, the state is nicknamed "The Last Frontier" with good reason: Here is a paradoxical landscape where boundaries—between community and isolation, bounty and deprivation,...
The Spies of Shilling Lane
Mrs. Braithwaite, self-appointed queen of her English village, finds herself dethroned, despised, and dismissed following her husband’s selfish divorce petition. Never deterred, the threat of a family secret being revealed sets her hot-foot to London to find the only person she has left—her...
It's an election season gone wild in this "irresistible" (Cosmopolitan) and "whip-smart" (Us Weekly) novel about a delicious cast of characters who forge an unlikely friendship while their significant others are out on the campaign trail.
Cady Davenport is living the American dream...
At...
| Author | Mary Karr |
| ISBN | 0330485768 |
This memoir of adolescence follows the earlier volume by Mary Karr, The Liars' Club. In Cherry, we find Karr once again trying to run from the thrills and terrors of her psychological and physical awakening by violently crashing up against authority in all its forms, shuttling between the principal's...
Here's another book that I read for a class that I otherwise would never have attempted. I'm glad, I think, that I put my head down and staggered through Susan Griffin's A Chorus of Stones, but it's a book that takes a toll.
Here's a happy thought: a lot has already been written about...
The Renegade Writer: A Totally Unconventional Guide to Freelance Writing Success
| Author | Linda Formichelli |
| ISBN | 1933338008 |
Written by two freelancers who broke the rules to win the game, this handbook contains a wealth of information for writers who are frustrated by the seemingly limited ways to operate in the freelance market. It explains that freelancers can negotiate for more money and better terms without risking...
