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Offers readers the tools they need to crack the lucrative American romantic fiction market, as well as insight into the writer's relationship with agents, editors, and publicists. It also includes advice on novel structure, outlines, timelines, preparing presentations, historical research, and planning publicity.

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A guide to the modes and methods of Creative Writing research, designed to be invaluable to university staff and students in formulating research ideas, and in selecting appropriate strategies. Creative writing researchers from around the globe offer a selection of models that readers can explore and on which they can build.

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Reveals the three useful stages which make the difference in getting your idea from writing the script to being accepted for production - information you need to know before you write your script; techniques you need to learn when you're writing your script; and, how to market your script after it's written.

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Brooks, a top young adult literary agent, gives writers all the advice they need to tap into this incredible market.

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This new, fully updated edition is the essential detective in your pocket - something to reach for when your writing needs that short, sharp shock of modern-day investigating. Written with answers to these questions in mind, this is the essential guide to police procedures and practice written specifically for writers.

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A book to inspire, impel and sustain the person who wishes to live creatively. It is an allegory about a writer who struggles with her craft, with motivation and most of all with doubt.

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For the hundreds of thousands of people who aspire to write a 50,000-word novel in a month, this updated and revised edition of the classic writing guide will inspire, motivate and propel writers of all stripes to accomplish their goal.

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Focuses on choosing an idea, choosing a point of view, making your characters likeable, creating secondary characters, learning the "Three Ps" (problems, plotting, and pacing), revising your text, finding an agent, and more. This work also features tables, charts, and sidebars.

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When you focus on what lies at the heart of story - tension, desire, crisis, escalation, struggle, discovery - rather than plot templates and formulas, you'll begin to break out of the box and write fiction that resonates with your readers. Story Trumps Structure will transform the way you think about stories and the way you write them, forever.

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Women who write face biases and deep-seeded conditioning that challenge their writing processes and present barriers to publication. Write On, Sisters! takes a critical look at how social and cultural factors work against women writers, and offers both context and encouragement to women writers to step into their courage and claim their place at the table.

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This collection of conversations between writers and their mentors includes Zadie Smith with Ian McEwan; Jonathan Lethem with Paul Auster; Adam Thirlwell with Tom Stoppard; Susan Choi with Francisco Goldman; ZZ Packer with Edward P. Jones; and Dave Eggers with David Foster Wallace.

(Paperback, Revised Edition)

Features interviews with Jennifer Egan, Amy Hempel, Orhan Pamuk, Richard Powers, and Marjane Satrapi. This book presents a collection of conversations between writers and their mentors, taken from the pages of "The Believer".