Product Description: Where do you get your ideas?It’s a question that plagues every writer. And once you’ve got an idea, what then? Ideas without a plan, without a purpose, are no more than pleasant thoughts. So how do you come up with those ideas, and how do you turn them into writing that will engage your reader?The Writer’s Idea Book is here to help you find the answers...read more

Product Description: Coral Castle is the first book to take an objective, journalistic look at one of America's most intriguing places Coral Castle, located in Homestead, Florida. Edward Leedskalnin, an eccentric Latvian immigrant, built Coral Castle in the 1920s and 30s...read more

Product Description: Why did Barry Sanders, one of the game's most exciting and explosive running backs, suddenly retire just as he was closing in on the all-time NFL rushing record? At the height of his career, he walked away without explanation. In this amazing book, Sanders reveals for the first time how he came to make the biggest decision of his life...read more

The author of The Writer's Idea Book explains how to assess one's ideas and transform them into finished pieces in a guide that includes more than three hundred creative exercises, helpful instruction, and writing-pased prompts, all designed to help would-be writers become more creative, complete more projects, cure writer's block, and more. Original. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: A Writer's Magic Carpet Ride - Carry Your Readers from Coast to Coast without Leaving HomeFill your settings with the insider details readers love - without spending days in a library or weeks on the road. Writer's Guide to Places makes it easy! Featuring all fifty states, ten Canadian provinces, and fifty-one North American cities, this book provides a writer's eye view of hundreds of fascinating locales, from bustling cities and scenic landscapes to tourist traps and small town squares...read more

Offers tips on how to come up with ideas, how to filter out the best of them, and how to transform those ideas to the desired piece for any type of narrative, including short stories, poems, memoirs, novels. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing is a compilation of the best articles and interviews from Writer's Digest magazine, books, and annuals. Aspiring authors will find articles on the craft, art, and process of fiction writing from such authors as: Sue Grafton, Terry Brooks, Richard Russo, Janet Fitch, Octavia Butler, Tom Clancy, John Updike and more...read more

A compendium of articles, essays, and interviews explore the craft, art, and process of fiction writing, along with practical advice and creative tips from Sue Grafton, Richard Russo, Janet Fitch, Octavia Butler, Terry Butler, Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, Kurt Vonnegut, John Updike, Tom Clancy, and other notable novelists. Original.

Amazon.com Review: Like its predecessor, another great tome to take to the beach or unwind with between chapters--your own, that is (in which case you may want to read Michael Norman's novella-length entry on The Marketing of a First Novel). As before, an eclectic range is the book's greatest strength...read more