Starting from Scratch

From the best-selling author of  Rubyfruit Jungle and  Bingo, here is a writers'' manual as provocative,  frank, and funny as her fiction. Unlike most  writers'' guides, this one had as much to do with how  writers live as with mastering the tools of their  trade. Rita Mae Brown begins with a very personal  account of her own career, from her days as a young  poet who had written a novel no publis...