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New for Spring!
Unleashing Your Creativity
After 50!
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New for Spring!
The Author’s
Guide to
Building an Online Platform
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by Gene Perret
$14.95 • 200 pages • Tradepaper • ISBN 978-1884956-81-2
All
of us had dreams of being creative when we were young.Then “life happened.”
Now, with families raised, roots set, and careers under control, it’s time
to address your creative self.
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by Stephanie
Chandler
$14.95 • 200 pages • Tradepaper
• ISBN 978-1884956-82-9
The buzz word
in publishing houses and at writer’s conferences these days is platform.
As in, “What is the author’s platform?”
With more than 175,000 new titles published each year,
publishers want to sign authors who are capable of helping to sell their
book. Today you can build an international platform right from your
kitchen table—even if your kitchen table is in Manhattan…Kansas. |
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Freelancing for
Newspapers
Writing for an Overlooked
Market
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The New
Comedy Writing
Step-by-Step
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by Sue Fagalde
Lick
$14.95 • Tradepaper
• ISBN 1-884956-68-8
Pick up the Sunday paper and consider how many
stories it takes to fill all those pages. How can any newspaper staff
produce so many stories every day, every week, every month of the year and
keep up with breaking news, too?
They can’t. They use freelancers. |
by Gene Perret,
Foreword by Carol Burnett
$14.95 • Tradepaper
• ISBN 1-884956-66-1
Three-time Emmy-award winner Gene Perret’s Comedy
Writing Step by Step has been the manual for humor writers for 24
years. With this, his first update, Perret offers readers a treasure
trove of guidelines and suggestions covering a broad range of comedy
writing situations, along with many all-important insights into the
selling of one’s work. |
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Let’s Get
Creative
Writing Fiction That
Sells
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New Updated Version!
The
Portable Writer’s
Conference
Your Guide to Getting
and Staying Published
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by William F. Nolan
$14.95 ($22.95
Canada) • Trade Paperback • ISBN 1-884956-50-5 • May 2006
Using the knowledge
inherent in writing more than 90 works of fiction including Logan’s
Run—soon to be a major Warner Bros. movie—William F. Nolan uses a
brisk and humorous style to teach the reader how to craft novels and
short stories that sell.
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Edited
by Stephen Blake Mettee
$19.95
($29.95 Canada)
• 464 pp •Trade Paperback
Advice from more than 45 noted authors,
agents and editors.
A Writer's Digest Book
Club Selection
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101 Best
Scenes Ever Written
A Romp through Literature for
Writers and Readers
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Emotional
Structure
Creating the Story Beneath the Plot: A Guide for Screenwriters
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by Barnaby Conrad • $14.95
($22.95 Canada) • 244 pages Trade Paper • ISBN 1-884956-56-4 • May 2006
Readers will delight to the best scenes ever
written. They will find old favorites and savor scenes new to them.
With
each scene, Conrad provides insights as to what the author wishes to
accomplish with this passage and the literary devices he or she
employed.
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by Peter Dunne
$14.95 ($22.95 Canada) • 244 pages •
Trade Paperback • ISBN 1-884956-53-X • April 2006
Using his three decades of
experience writing, and producing scripts, (“Dallas,” “Melrose Place,”
“CSI” etc.) Dunne takes the reader through a step-by-step process of
creating a script whose emotional composition rings true and whose
arrangement of complex character conflicts forms the film’s ultimate
passion. |
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Damn! That's Funny
The
Professional Guide to Writing Humorous Articles You Can Sell!
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New Updated Version!
Damn! Why Didn't I
Write That?
How Ordinary People are
Raking in $100,000.00 ..or More Writing
Nonfiction Books & How You Can Too!
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by Gene Perret
$14.95 ($20.95 Canada) • Tradepaper • 228
pages
ISBN 1-884956-44-0
Learn from a true pro what makes readers
laugh, how to write
humorous pieces, how to add humor to serious articles, and how to market
their material. Written by television comedy writer Gene Perret, a
three-time Emmy award winner and longtime head-writer for Bob Hope.
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by Marc McCutcheon
$14.95 ($22.50
Canada) • 256 pp •Trade Paper
This guide, by best-selling
author Marc McCutcheon, shows the reader how to cash in by identifying
lucrative publishing niches and filling them, not once, not twice, but
year after year.
A
Book-of-the-Month Club Selection!
A Quality Paperback Book Club Selection!
A Writer’s Digest Book Club Selection!
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The American Directory of
Writer's
Guidelines, 6th Edition
More than
1,700 Magazine
Editors and Book Publishers Explain What They Are Looking for From
Freelancers
Sold Out! |
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LifeWriting
Drawing
from Personal Experience to Create Features You Can Publish
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Compiled & Edited by Stephen Blake Mettee,
Michele Doland, and Doris Hall
$29.95 ($45.00 Canada) • Trade Paper • 816 pages
ISBN 1-884956-58-0
New Updated Edition!
Target your submissions to the exact needs
of the publisher with this one-of-a-kind source to browse for article,
short story, poetry and book ideas.
Indexed by topics.
A
Book-of-the-Month Club Selection!
A Quality Paperback Book Club Selection!
A Writer’s Digest Book Club Selection!
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by
Fred D. White, Ph.D.
$14.95 ($23.50 Canada) • 192 pages • Trade Paper
Lifewriting is people-centered nonfiction writing. Not just autobiographical
or biographical, lifewriting encompasses a broad range of
personal-experience narratives. Lifewriting can be serious or humorous or
both. It can include any kind of subject matter because people are always at
the heart of any endeavor.
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Pitching Hollywood
How to Sell Your TV and Movie Ideas
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Writers’ & Artists’ Hideouts
Great Getaways for
Seducing the Muse
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by
Jonathan Koch and Robert Kosberg
with Tanya Meurer Norman
$12.95 (19.95 Canada) • 120 pages • Trade Paper
Anyone who has a
great idea for a movie or a TV show shouldn’t miss reading this book. Two
successful movie and TV producers provide the reader with the tools he needs
to create, develop and sell ideas to Hollywood.
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by Andrea Brown
$14.95 (23.50 Canada) • 224 pages • Trade Paper
Find the perfect places to seduce the muse in this
charming, practical guide. Read astute advice from editors, literary agents,
authors, illustrators, art directors and other creative people on harnessing
one’s creativity.
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The ABC's of
Writing
for Children
112 Children’s
Authors and Illustrators Talk About the Art, the Business, the Craft, and
the Life of Writing Children’s Literature
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The Fast Track Course on
How to Write a
Nonfiction
Book Proposal
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by Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff
$16.95 ($26.50 Canada) • 341 pp • Trade Paper
A warm, friendly exploration
of how to write for children
and what it is like to be a children’s author. Full
of anecdotes.
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by Stephen Blake Mettee
$12.95 ($19.95 Canada) • 128 pp• Trade Paperback
Cuts to the chase and provides simple, detailed instruction
that allows anyone to write a professional book proposal and hear an
editor say Yes!
A Writer’s Digest Book Club Selection!
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Feminine Wiles
Creative Techniques for Writing Women’s Feature
Stories That Sell
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Quit Your Day Job!
How to
Sleep Late, Do What You Enjoy, and Make a Ton of Money
as a
Writer!
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by
Donna Elizabeth Boetig
$14.95 ($22.50 Canada) • 191pp•
Trade Paperback
Learn 39
things editors like from writers.
A Writer's Digest Book
Club Selection
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by Jim Denney
$14.95 (29.95 Canada) • 240 pages •Trade Paper
This is not a book of fluff and glittering
platitudes. Denney lays out a sound, strategic plan for building a career as
a full-time writer.
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