Explains the process of writing, from coming up with ideas through creating characters and writing dialogue, and offers practical advice and exercises.

"It's time to book the talk shows and literary journals--everyone wants to know how a best-selling author gets their ideas and crafts a masterpiece! This engrossing guide to becoming a successful writer explains the painstaking work behind beloved books. Readers will discover what they can do now to prepare for a literary triumph as well as how some of their favorite authors broke into the scene. The appealing design includes sidebars, fact boxes,...

"When the Australian Mystery Writers' Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book. Fiction, this time: I needed a break from real people killing each other. Obviously, that didn't pan out. The program is a who's who of crime writing royalty: the debut writer (me!), the forensic science writer, the blockbuster writer, the legal...

Provides aspiring authors with guidance to pursue a career in writing.

"The New York Times bestselling "King of Christmas Fiction" presents a romantic new holiday story about two romance writers who are searching for the kind of love that, so far, they have only written about"--

"They say writing is rewriting. So why does the second part get such short shrift? Refuse To Be Done will guide you through every step of the novel writing process, from getting started on those first pages to the last tips for making your final draft even tighter and stronger. From lauded writer and teacher Matt Bell, Refuse to Be Done is encouraging and intensely practical, focusing always on specific rewriting tasks, techniques, and activities...

"An instructional book on how to write a story from bestselling author Frances O'Roark Dowell"--