Is There a Book Inside You? Writing Alone or With a Collaborator by Dan Poynter

With this step-by-step plan, you will learn how to break a topic down into easy-to-attack projects; how and where to do research; a process that makes writing easy; how to improve material; how to evaluate publishing options and how to develop an individualized and workable plan.

So You Want to Write - How to Get Your Book Out of Your Head and Onto the Paper in 7 Days by Ann McIndoo

So, You Want to Write! provides you with step-by-step instructions for preparing to write, organizing your material and writing your book.

Finding Your Voice - How to Put Personality in Your Writing by Les Edgerton

By finding their voices, writers dramatically improve their chances of getting noticed by editors and agents and, therefore, of getting published. The book's lively text (full of "voice," as one might expect) is loaded with practical, accessible advice that any beginning writer can understand.

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg

In her groundbreaking first book, Goldberg brings together Zen meditation and writing in a new way. Writing practice, as she calls it, is no different from other forms of Zen practice—"it is backed by two thousand years of studying the mind." This edition includes a new preface and an interview with the author.

Fear Of Writing for Writers and Closet Writers by Milli Thornton

Fear of Writing is for writers (including closet writers!) who experience a familiar thud in the pit of the stomach when they visualize sitting down to write. The process of learning to flow is demystified, and a triage of fun is applied to heal the old writing scars. Through short stories about fictional characters with fear of writing, you'll realize you're not alone.

Bird by Bird - Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamont

Think you've got a book inside of you? In this cleverly written book, Anne Lamott will help you find your passion and your voice overcome writer block and go for broke with each paragraph. Great reading.

On Writing by Stephen King

Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have.

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Knowlton Zinsser

On Writing Well shows how to apply the author's four principles of writing: Clarity; Simplicity; Brevity; and Humanity. He stresses the importance of reading your writing aloud to hear how it sounds and illustrates the difference between good and bad nouns, and good and bad verbs. Specific examples are given throughout the recording that show how writing can be improved.

How to Write a Book Proposal by Michael Larsen

The definitive resource for crafting effective book proposals. Michael Larsen details every step clearly and concisely. Readers will learn how to: * Test market the potential of a book idea and effectively communicate that potentail in a proposal * Choose the best editors and publishers for a particular proposal * Create a professional-looking proposal package * Predispose a publisher to make their best offer.

Self-Publishing Manual by Dan Poynter

The Self-Publishing Manual, more effectively and successfully than any other book, has turned writers with an idea into successful authors with books by providing solid, usable information in clear, concise, readable lanugage. This is not the stuff of theory, it is the product of hard-earned experience.

The Economical Guide to Self-Publishing by Linda F. Radke

If you publish your own book, you will make more money, get to press sooner, and keep control of your work. You have all the ingredients to be a successful author - publisher - this book will be your recipe.

Promote Like a Pro by Linda F. Radke

Getting a book published is no easy task, but promoting it may be even harder. Linda F. Radke's Promote Like a Pro: Small Budget, Big Show helps self-publishers (and other entrepreneurs with projects to promote) reach the audiences that want their books.

Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time by Keith Ferrazzi

Each of 31 short chapters highlights a specific technique or concept, from "Warming the Cold Call" and "Managing the Gatekeeper" to following up, making small talk, "pinging" (or sending "quick, casual" greetings) and defining oneself to the point where one's missives become "the e-mail you always read because of who it's from." In addition to variations on the theme of hard work, Ferrazzi offers counterintuitive perspectives that ring true: "vulnerability... is one of the most underappreciated assets in business today"; "too many people confuse secrecy with importance." No one will confuse this book with its competitors.

Make Your Contacts Count Networking Know-how for Business And Career Success by Anne Baber and Lynn Waymon

Make Your Contacts Count is a practical, step-by-step guide for creating, cultivating, and capitalizing on networking relationships and opportunities. Packed with valuable tools, the book offers a field-tested "Hello to Goodbye" system that takes readers from entering a room, to making conversations flow, to following up.

Writers Market 2008 by Robert Brewer

The 2008 Writer's Market features all the great information writers have to come to expect for more than 80 years and then some. This edition takes Writer's Market to a new level of excellence with high profile author interviews and five new market sections. Of course, it's still packed with all the information writers rely on year after year including the keys to successful query letters, advice on how much to charge, articles from successful writers, as well as listings for book publishers, magazines, lierary agents and more!"

Baby Angels by Betty Dobson

"Baby Angels explores the unlikely relationship between Janet, a young photographer, and Sweetapple, an aging sculptor. The story takes place in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where I have lived since 1991. I wrote this piece to explore the human tendency towards preconceptions and show that few people are as they seem on the surface. The story is full of twists, most of which surprised even me during the writing process." - Betty Dobson

A Very Special Child by Debra Shiveley Welch

In her work, Debra Shiveley Welch tenderly tells of the Lord giving attributes to her yet unborn son while in the womb of the frightened young mother. God takes some sweetness from the Cherubs, sweet music from the birds, laughter from the dolphins, and wraps them in love from the mother, placing it all carefully into the spirit of the unborn babe. A beautiful gift of life waiting to be unwrapped and cherished and placed in the arms of a loving mother and father.

Jesus Gandhi Oma Mae Adams by Debra Shiveley Welch and Linda Lee Greene

In their new novel Jesus Gandhi Oma Mae Adams, co-authors and cousins Linda Lee Greene and Debra Shiveley Welch explore the dark depths of the human soul in a thrilling murder mystery mixing supernatural elements and intriguing suspense, spiced with history, romance, and unpredictable twists and turns. Oma Mae Adams, an African American Televangelist whose philanthropic works endear her to the world, is beloved by many. Gunned down in front of the television station where she tapes her popular religious program, her shocking death leaves a bereft world with two questions: who killed Oma Mae Adams ---and why?