Product Description: 1963, Mexico, Maine. The Wood family is much like its close, Catholic, immigrant neighbors, all dependent on a father’s wages from the Oxford Paper Company. Until the sudden death of Dad, when Mum and the four closely connected Wood girls are set adrift...read more

Product Description: SPECIAL SHRINKWRAPPED BUNDLE! Improve your writing, one element at a time with the Elements of Fiction Collecction. With these books you'll learn how to draw on various sources to create authentic characters and which viewpoint tells their story best with Characters & Viewpoint (Orson Scott Card); start your story strong and carry your readers through to the compelling end with Beginnings, Middles & Ends (Nancy Kress); keep readers turning the page to find out more with Conflict, Action & Suspense (William Noble); create atmosphere and move your story forward with Description (Monica Wood); build a sturdy framework for your novel and craft scenes that move the reader moment by moment toward the resolution in Scene & Structure (Jack M...read more

Product Description: Offering an incredible spectrum of writing prompts, photos, and advice, The Pocket Muse: Endless Inspiration provides you with the same unique and stimulating approach to writing as the original Pocket Muse--this time, featuring advice for all types of writing including fiction of all genres, nonfiction, and poetry...read more

Product Description: After surviving a near-fatal accident, thirty-year-old Lizzy Mitchell faces a long road to recovery. She remembers little about the days she spent in and out of consciousness, save for one thing: She saw her beloved deceased uncle, Father Mike, the man who raised her in the rectory of his Maine church until she was nine, at which time she was abruptly sent away to boarding school...read more

Product Description: Shake Up Your Writing RoutineWith an incredible spectrum of writing prompts, photos, and advice, The Pocket Muse: Endless Inspiration offers creative insights and inspirations for your daily writing life.Inside, you'll find transformative ways to:Prevent procrastinationRevisit and revitalize your workAdjust your attitudeStimulate productivityAuthor Monica Wood, author of the bestseller Pocket Muse, offers hundreds of ways to warm up to a new day of writing and see the world with a clean pair of eyes...read more

A collection of nine interrelated stories is set in the small town of Abbott Falls, Maine, and follows the community's reaction to a devastating mill strike, during which a man on the brink of retirement finds new purpose in building an ark in his backyard. Reader's Guide included. Reissue.

Product Description: The Pocket Muse is every writer's key to finding writing inspiration when and where they want it. It includes hundreds of thought-provoking prompts, exercises and illustrations that immediately help them to: Get started writing; Overcome writer's block; Develop a writing habit; Think more creatively; Master style, revision and other elements of the craft; The rich variety of exercises will help writers to create entire stories or focus on a single aspect of their writing...read more

A collection of nine interrelated stories is set in the small town of Abbott Falls, Maine, and follows the community's reaction to a devastating mill strike, during which a man on the brink of retirement finds new purpose in building an ark in his backyard. Reader's Guide included. Reprint.

Product Description: Connie has trouble with time. She always has to stop and think a minute: How old is she now? . . . Faith always seems to know, though her life is the same as Connie’s: back and forth to theater towns all over. The same dingy food, the same noisy sidewalks, the same cramped suites in the same hotels...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: He came to me first in a dream, as a crippled dog angling down a country lane, puzzled by his sudden age, his bum paw, the dry stick clamped between his teeth. I’d been expecting this dream for a very long time, and I woke up moving...read more

Product Description: Description is most powerful when it's visible, aural, tactile. Make your descriptions fresh and they'll move your story forward, imbue your work with atmosphere, create that tang of feeling that editors cry for and readers crave...read more

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Product Description: Connie has trouble with time. She always has to stop and think a minute: How old is she now? . . . Faith always seems to know, though her life is the same as Connie’s: back and forth to theater towns all over. The same dingy food, the same noisy sidewalks, the same cramped suites in the same hotels...read more