Jumpstarting Your Inner Novelist by JE Thompson is a practical guide for writers about creating successful novels. The author discusses how to choose POV, the setting of the novel, and the stream of consciousness, the ‘thing’ that gives style. Choosing the protagonist, the antagonist, and...

Where Are The Ghostwriting Jobs? by G.B. Sholander is about markets available online for entry-level and established ghostwriters. After giving a brief introduction to the nature of ghostwriting, jobs available in this field and allied information, it lists specific places where one can find opportunities...

You Can Write for Children by Chris Eboch explains how to explore the wide variety of age ranges, genres, and styles in writing stories, articles, and books for young people. Chris suggests a five-step approach, beginning with a study of existing literature as well as...

“The goal is to become intoxicated with life. The tool is the heart. The medium is words.” Writing, as Dr. Patricia Daly-Lipe illustrates time and again in her book Myth, Magic, and Metaphor: A Journey into the Heart of Creativity, is a combination of intuition,...

Writing the Cozy Mystery by Nancy J. Cohen is about writing a whodunit which, as the author says, is a complex task. Mulling over the bits and pieces one has gathered, the puzzle should be made to fit together in the end. This guide begins...

The Productive Academic Writer: An Easy-To-Read Guide To Low-Stress Prolific Writing is a useful guide which addresses academic writing, an important issue of academics who are affected by a range of factors. In this book, Kasthurirangan Gopalakrishnan asserts that although productive writing is key to...

Marketing Your Book Using the Internet by Cheri Powell is a must-have reference tool. Anyone thinking of publishing a book, or who wants to market a book that they have already published, needs to read this book. It's easy to see that Cheri Powell has...

Captivate Your Readers (An Editor's Guide to Writing Compelling Fiction) by Jodie Renner is an informative and valuable guide for all fiction writers. The author goes beyond the notion of just writing a great story and gaining instant readers. She gets really meticulous and lets...

Modern Mythmakers: 35 Interviews with Horror & Science Fiction Writers and Filmmakers by Michael McCarty is an entertaining anthology of some of the most creative minds to conceive horror, science fiction and fantasy fiction. Follow this published freelance writer who has been nominated for the...

Horror 101: The Way Forward is a collection of tales and advice from established horror writers from around the world, including Steve Rasnic Tem, Graham Masterton, Jack Ketchum, Ellen Datlow, Iain Rob Wright, Ramsey Campbell and Michael A. Arnzen. They offer personal insights to how...