Writing and editing guides

The founder of Belt Publishing demystifies the publishing process, offering some insider how-to advice for aspiring authors.

If you want to know your church's weaknesses and strengths, you must look at it through the eyes of a visitor.

The Strategic Poet: Honing the Craft focuses on the craft of poetry and is based on the belief that craft can be taught and the best teacher of craft is a good poem.

Organized into ten sections with each devoted to a poetic concept, The Practicing Poet begins with Discovering New Material, Finding the Best Words, Making Music, Working with Sentences and Line Breaks, Crafting Surprise, and Achieving Tone.

Is there a novel inside you that needs to get out?

Are you a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants writer?

There are all kinds of ways for authors to publish today.

Break free of toxic success myths.

Make those writing dreams a reality with this comprehensive guide of publishing secrets, which will show you how to go from staring at an empty page, to becoming a published author.

No matter who you are, your story is a part of something big-the fabric of history and the human experience.

"e;[Labbe] wreaks havoc on narrative rules from the start and keeps doing it.

This book will save you money-guaranteed.

How to Sell Your Memoir: 12 Steps to a Perfect Book Proposal offers memoirists an easy-to-follow formula to create a winning book proposal that will attract agents and editors.

In Journey of Memoir you will find lessons on how to write a great scene; information on the difference between freewriting and outlining, and why you need both; timeline and turning point exercises to help create structure; and much more.

What's Your Book?

What is it like in that church across the street?

This fifth edition of Critical Thinking by the noted logician Richard L.

An ';entertaining collection of tributes and insights' from Jay McInerney and other novelists and poets about the writers who inspired them (Booklist).

The Writer's Essential Tackle Box offers an insiders view that informs and educates writers to key occupations that comprise the publishing industryhow they work, why they work, and pitfalls to avoid.

One-stop shopping for researching the complexities of all aspects of civil law.

From murder/mystery to medical fiction - from trauma to mass casualties, Dr.

Marco Polo Didnt Go There is a collection of rollicking travel tales from a young writer USA Today has called Jack Kerouac for the Internet Age.

TEACHING AND LEARNING CREATIVELY: I01 General/tradePIRATIO01 General/trade AND REFLECTIO01 General/trade offers a glimpse into a Clemson University project that fostered poetry writing in courses across the curriculum and grew to include visual and other kinds of creative responses.

Explores the wide range of scholarship on revision while bringing new light to bear on enduring questions in composition and rhetoric.

An invaluable reference book for publishers or anyone interested or in any way involved in the African book/publishing/literary scene, or writers looking for a publisher.

Improving the quality of your writing starts with rethinking your assumptions and developing healthier writing habits.

Real-world flash fiction, poetry, and image-making advice each step of the way from a teacher and fellow writer and photographer with twenty-years publishing experience.

Revised 2019 EditionIn Self-Publish Your Book: A Quick & Easy Step-by-Step Guide, writer, editor, and publisher, Jessica Bell, does not overwhelm you with all information availableshe explains exactly what one needs to know, without the faff, by following a foolproof, cost-efficient, time-efficient, extremely easy-to-follow, step-by-step, self-publishing method.

You already know a lot more about poetry than you think.

It is said that truth is often stranger than fiction.

Want to write?

People dont read books anymore.

Andrew Don's memoir-style journalism guide, based on 40 successful years as a professional journalist, writer and editor, explains how anybody can achieve their dream and earn six-figures as an independent freelance journalist.

Many of us regret the fact that we didn't get to know our parents or grandparents well enough and that it is now too late.

How would it be to write the book you're really here to write?

Do you want to understand podcasting as an indie author and thrive in this growing industry?

Authors: do you want to see your self-published books in physical bookstores, locally and internationally?

Do you want to speak the language of the publishing industry and become a more informed indie author?

It has never been easier to publish a book, but publishing a book is never easy.

SelfPub3 is a concept and a publishing era defined by the concept: that any author (with the requisite skills) now has the means to establish a sustainable and scalable business.

Being a Professional Writer, by Stephen Wade and Kate Walker, builds on the previous edition and is a guide to all major aspects of working as a full time writer.