Writers' Conference in a Book - Large Print Edition
Writers' Conference in a Book - Large Print Edition

Author: Allen Deever

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-04-11

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9781511693257

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Top Ten Secrets of Writing More Productively, Making a More Profitable Living as an Author, and More Fully Enjoying the Good Life of Being the Type of Writer You Always Knew You Could Be. Struggling authors who were fortunate to attend the Learning Annex writing seminars, conducted by Allen & Ellie Deever, were universally thrilled to discover the liberating secrets that revolved around the Ten Tenets of Writing. Now, for the first time, you can enjoy this popular portion of their famous seminars at only a fraction of the lecture price. The Writers' Conference in a Book contains all the information and more that audiences in Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, and Toronto were thankful to receive from this popular writing duo, who have never held anything back when it comes to presenting info on what writers must absolutely know and understand to become successful in the publishing industry, and what authors desperately need to know in order to become highly productive. Famous writer for The New Yorker, A.J. Liebling, once said, "I can write better than anyone who can write faster, and I can write faster than anyone who can write better." Those fitting words describe the vitally important information contained in the Ten Tenets of Writing. Productivity in writing equals profitability in the publishing industry, but productivity doesn't mean spending more time at a desk, or hunched over a word processor. It means knowing how to accomplish more in less time, so that you have more time to enjoy life, and in turn possess the inclination to invest more hours into learning and doing more fascinating things, all of which gives you much more to write about. To summarize a portion of the priceless information contained in this book, if you don't know and understand the Fourth Tenet of Writing, you'll never be free to profitably write about any topic in the world that interests you. Rest assured, you'll find the other nine tenets to be equally valuable, especially as you explore the productive connection between writing and talking, embrace the "Prime Directive" of every good writer, find out what to do with valuable but boring information, and discover how to take the pressure off the debilitating desire for over-editing and "perfectionism." This book also contains such enlightening information as the number of stages required to write a marketable book, how to build marketability into your manuscript before typing a single word, and the basics of everything you need to know to dramatically increase your productivity, as well as soul-satisfying selections on how to transform the act of writing into a much more enjoyable experience. Discover the creative differences between writing with pen and paper or using a keyboard, explore how magazine writing helps to produce the world's best book writers, learn why good grammatical skills are not necessary to good writing, and find out why those who speak English as a Second Language possess a certain writing advantage over native English speakers. Thankfully, every one of these Ten Tenets of Writing is equally applicable to both fiction and non-fiction writing, and where one genre has an advantage over another, we'll open your eyes to how to take advantage of it. For instance, find out why some non-fiction books have a much longer shelf-life than works of fiction, and why the most profitable authors don't hesitate to indulge in both types of writing. The Writers' Conference in a Book is the best foundation upon which to build your budding career as a writer, or to rejuvenate a previous career as an author, and it stands as one of the greatest liberators to free yourself from ever having to wait for inspiration before starting to write again. In short, if you don't know the Ten Tenets of Writing or understand the significance of these time-saving and talent-releasing tenets, you don't fully know how to think and write like a pro.

Writing Irresistible Kidlit
Writing Irresistible Kidlit

Author: Mary Kole

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-12-04

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1599635763

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Captivate the hearts and minds of young adult readers! Writing for young adult (YA) and middle grade (MG) audiences isn't just "kid's stuff" anymore--it's kidlit! The YA and MG book markets are healthier and more robust than ever, and that means the competition is fiercer, too. In Writing Irresistible Kidlit, literary agent Mary Kole shares her expertise on writing novels for young adult and middle grade readers and teaches you how to: • Recognize the differences between middle grade and young adult audiences and how it impacts your writing. • Tailor your manuscript's tone, length, and content to your readership. • Avoid common mistakes and cliches that are prevalent in YA and MG fiction, in respect to characters, story ideas, plot structure and more. • Develop themes and ideas in your novel that will strike emotional chords. Mary Kole's candid commentary and insightful observations, as well as a collection of book excerpts and personal insights from bestselling authors and editors who specialize in the children's book market, are invaluable tools for your kidlit career. If you want the skills, techniques, and know-how you need to craft memorable stories for teens and tweens, Writing Irresistible Kidlit can give them to you.

The Historian
The Historian

Author: Elizabeth Kostova

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2005-06-01

Total Pages: 660

ISBN-13: 075951383X

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The record-breaking phenomenon from Elizabeth Kostova is a celebrated masterpiece that "refashioned the vampire myth into a compelling contemporary novel, a late-night page-turner" (San Francisco Chronicle). Breathtakingly suspenseful and beautifully written, The Historian is the story of a young woman plunged into a labyrinth where the secrets of her family’s past connect to an inconceivable evil: the dark fifteenth-century reign of Vlad the Impaler and a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive through the ages. The search for the truth becomes an adventure of monumental proportions, taking us from monasteries and dusty libraries to the capitals of Eastern Europe—in a feat of storytelling so rich, so hypnotic, so exciting that it has enthralled readers around the world. “Part thriller, part history, part romance...Kostova has a keen sense of storytelling and she has a marvelous tale to tell.” —Baltimore Sun

Public Speaking for Authors, Creatives and Other Introverts
Public Speaking for Authors, Creatives and Other Introverts

Author: Joanna Penn

Publisher: The Creative Penn

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 191332107X

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Are you an author or creative preparing for success? Do you want to learn to speak effectively in front of an audience? All successful creatives have to speak and present in public, whether that's at a festival, on a podcast or radio show, or as part of earning multiple streams of income. But you don’t have to be like Tony Robbins, bouncing around on stage with a booming voice and larger than life personality. You just have to be you and tell your story in your own way. In this book, I'll share everything I know as a professional speaker, author and introvert. It includes the practicalities of speaking, as well as mindset issues like anxiety, plus the business side if you want to make speaking an income stream. You will discover: PART 1: Practicalities of Speaking Types of speaking, deciding on your topic, preparation, managing your energy, tips for slide packs, handouts, workbooks and more, personal presentation, giving the talk, managing people, panels, feedback and testimonials, performance tips, improving your speaking over time PART 2: Mindset Tackling anxiety, growing your confidence and authenticity PART 3: The Speaking Business How to get speaking events, running your own events, marketing, generosity and networking with others, your speaker brand, website and speaker's page, professional photos, email marketing, content marketing, social media, video, audio, how much to charge, increasing your revenue streams, financial considerations. If you want to learn how to speak effectively in front of an audience, sample or buy now.

Writers' Conference in a Book
Writers' Conference in a Book

Author: Allen Deever

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-04-16

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9781511765282

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Large Print Edition 10 Liberating Truths that Empower You to Immediately Begin Producing Satisfying Writing for a Paying Readership, Establish an Impressively Productive Writing Routine, and More Fully Enjoy the Good Life of Becoming the Type of Writer You Always Knew You Could Be. Struggling authors who attended The Learning Annex writing seminars, by Allen & Ellie Deever, were universally thrilled to discover the liberating secrets that revolved around the Ten Tenets of Writing. Now, for the first time, enjoy this popular portion of their famous seminar at a fraction of the lecture price. The Writers' Conference in a Book contains all the information and more that audiences in Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, San Francisco and Toronto were thankful to receive from this dynamic writing duo, who never hold anything back when it comes to presenting info on what writers absolutely must know to become successful in the publishing industry, and what authors desperately need to understand in order to become highly productive. Famous writer for The New Yorker, A.J. Liebling, once said, "I can write better than anyone who can write faster, and I can write faster than anyone who can write better." Those fitting words describe the vitally important information contained in the Ten Tenets of Writing. Productivity in writing equals profitability in the publishing industry, but productivity doesn't mean spending more time at a desk or hunched over a word processor. It means knowing how to accomplish more in less time, so that you have more time to enjoy life, and in turn possess the inclination to invest more hours into learning and doing more fascinating things, all of which gives you much more to write about. To summarize a portion of the priceless information contained in this book, if you don't know the Fourth Tenet of Writing, you'll never be free to profitably write about any topic in the world that interests you. Rest assured, you'll find the other nine tenets to be equally valuable, especially as you explore the productive connection between writing and talking, embrace the "Prime Directive" of every good writer, find out what to do with valuable but boring information, and discover how to take the pressure off the debilitating desire for over-editing and perfectionism. This book also contains such enlightening information as the number of stages required to write a salable book, how to build marketability into your manuscript before typing a single word, and the basics of everything you need to know to dramatically increase your productivity, as well as soul-satisfying selections on how to transform the act of writing into a much more enjoyable experience. Discover the creative differences between writing with pen & paper or using a keyboard, explore how magazine writing helps to produce the world's best book writers, learn why good grammatical skills are not necessary to good writing, and find out why those who speak English as a Second Language possess certain writing advantages over native English speakers. Thankfully, every one of the Ten Tenets of Writing is equally applicable to both fiction and nonfiction writing, and where one genre has an advantage over another, you'll discover the benefits. For instance, find out why some nonfiction books have a much longer shelf-life than works of fiction and why the most profitable authors don't hesitate to indulge in both types of writing. The Writers' Conference in a Book is the best foundation upon which to build your budding career as a writer, or to rejuvenate a previous career as an author, and it stands as one of the greatest liberators to free yourself from ever having to wait for inspiration to begin writing. In short, if you don't know the Ten Tenets of Writing or understand the significance of these time-saving and talent-releasing truths, you don't fully know how to think and write like a pro.

From Dissertation to Book
From Dissertation to Book

Author: William Germano

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2014-02-27

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 022606218X

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How to transform a thesis into a publishable work that can engage audiences beyond the academic committee. When a dissertation crosses my desk, I usually want to grab it by its metaphorical lapels and give it a good shake. “You know something!” I would say if it could hear me. “Now tell it to us in language we can understand!” Since its publication in 2005, From Dissertation to Book has helped thousands of young academic authors get their books beyond the thesis committee and into the hands of interested publishers and general readers. Now revised and updated to reflect the evolution of scholarly publishing, this edition includes a new chapter arguing that the future of academic writing is in the hands of young scholars who must create work that meets the broader expectations of readers rather than the narrow requirements of academic committees. At the heart of From Dissertation to Book is the idea that revising the dissertation is fundamentally a process of shifting its focus from the concerns of a narrow audience—a committee or advisors—to those of a broader scholarly audience that wants writing to be both informative and engaging. William Germano offers clear guidance on how to do this, with advice on such topics as rethinking the table of contents, taming runaway footnotes, shaping chapter length, and confronting the limitations of jargon, alongside helpful timetables for light or heavy revision. Germano draws on his years of experience in both academia and publishing to show writers how to turn a dissertation into a book that an audience will actually enjoy, whether reading on a page or a screen. He also acknowledges that not all dissertations can or even should become books and explores other, often overlooked, options, such as turning them into journal articles or chapters in an edited work. With clear directions, engaging examples, and an eye for the idiosyncrasies of academic writing, he reveals to recent PhDs the secrets of careful and thoughtful revision—a skill that will be truly invaluable as they add “author” to their curriculum vitae.

By the Rivers of Babylon
By the Rivers of Babylon

Author: Nelson DeMille

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 2003-06-01

Total Pages: 537

ISBN-13: 0759528322

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Lod Airport, Israel: Two Concorde jets take off for a U.N. conference that will finally bring peace to the Middle East. Covered by F-14 fighters, accompanied by security men, the planes carry warriors, pacifists, lovers, enemies, dignitaries -- and a bomb planted by a terrorist mastermind. Suddenly they're forced to crash-land at an ancient desert site. Here, with only a handful of weapons, the men and women of the peace mission must make a desperate stand against an army of crack Palestinian commandos -- while the Israeli authorities desperately attempt a rescue mission. In a land of blood and tears, in a windswept place called Babylon, it will be a battle of bullets and courage, and a war to the last death.

Writers by the River
Writers by the River

Author: Donia S. Eley

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2021-05-05

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1476684065

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The Highland Summer Writing Conference (HSC), held each summer along the banks of the ancient New River at Radford University's Selu Conservancy, brings together and inspires writers as they participate in the communal art of creating and sharing. Over the years, many prestigious Appalachian authors have taught workshops to like-minded students, many of whom became published authors in their own right. This book, a celebration of the HSC, is a collection of reflective essays, poetry, fiction, and non-fiction contributed by 41 authors and student-authors who have taken part in the conference over a span of 43 years.

Love and Other Ways of Dying
Love and Other Ways of Dying

Author: Michael Paterniti

Publisher: Dial Press

Published: 2015-03-03

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 0812997514

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LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS • In this moving, lyrical, and ultimately uplifting collection of essays, Michael Paterniti turns a keen eye on the full range of human experience, introducing us to an unforgettable cast of everyday people. Michael Paterniti is one of the most original and empathic storytellers working today. His writing has been described as “humane, devastating, and beautiful” by Elizabeth Gilbert, “spellbinding” by Anthony Doerr, and “expansive and joyful” by George Saunders. In the seventeen wide-ranging essays collected for the first time in Love and Other Ways of Dying, he brings his full literary powers to bear, pondering happiness and grief, memory and the redemptive power of human connection. In the remote Ukranian countryside, Paterniti picks apples (and faces mortality) with a real-life giant; in Nanjing, China, he confronts a distraught jumper on a suicide bridge; in Dodge City, Kansas, he takes up residence at a roadside hotel and sees, firsthand, the ways in which the racial divide turns neighbor against neighbor. In each instance, Paterniti illuminates the full spectrum of human experience, introducing us to unforgettable everyday people and bygone legends, exploring the big ideas and emotions that move us. Paterniti reenacts François Mitterrand’s last meal in a rustic dining room in France and drives across America with Albert Einstein’s brain in the trunk of his rental car, floating in a Tupperware container. He delves with heartbreaking detail into the aftermath of a plane crash off the coast of Nova Scotia, an earthquake in Haiti, and a tsunami in Japan—and, in searing swirls of language, unearths the complicated, hidden truths these moments of extremity teach us about our ability to endure, and to love. Michael Paterniti has spent the past two decades grappling with some of our most powerful subjects and incomprehensible events, taking an unflinching point of view that seeks to edify as it resists easy answers. At every turn, his work attempts to make sense of both love and loss, and leaves us with a profound sense of what it means to be human. As he writes in the Introduction to this book, “The more we examine the grooves and scars of this life, the more free and complete we become.” Praise for Michael Paterniti and Love and Other Ways of Dying “One of the best books I’ve read all year . . . These pieces are exceptional artifacts of literary journalism.”—Mark O’Connell, Slate “These pieces are extraordinary. . . . Journalism elevated beyond its ordinary capacities, well into the realm of literature.”—Columbia Journalism Review “A fearless, spellbinding collection of inquiries by a brilliant, globally minded essayist whose writing is magic and whose worldview brims with compassion . . . The size of Michael Paterniti’s curiosity is matched only by the size of his heart.”—Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See “Michael Paterniti is a genius.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of The Signature of All Things “One of the best living practitioners of the art of literary journalism, able to fully elucidate and humanize the everyday and the epic.”—Dave Eggers, author of The Circle “In each of these essays, Michael Paterniti unveils life for us, the beauty and heartbreak of it, as we would never see it ourselves but now can never forget it. Paterniti is brilliant—a rare master—and one of my favorite authors on earth.”—Lily King, author of Euphoria