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The Art of Creative Nonfiction: Writing and Selling the Literature of Reality
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Telling Lies for Fun & Profit
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Damn Fine Story: Mastering the Tools of a Powerful Narrative
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Oxymoronica: Paradoxical Wit and Wisdom from History's Greatest Wordsmiths
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How To Write a Page Turner: Craft a Story Your Readers Can't Put Down
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What If?: Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers
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The Describer's Dictionary: A Treasury of Terms & Literary Quotations
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The unmatched guide—and perfect gift—for stymied scribes and working wordsmiths everywhere, now expanded and updated. A singular and indispensab...
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Novel & Short Story Writer's Market 40th Edition: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published
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Poet's Market 34th Edition: The Most Trusted Guide to Publishing Poetry
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The Most Trusted Guide to Publishing Poetry, fully revised and updatedWant to get your poetry published? There's no better tool for making it hap...
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Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World)
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Children's Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2024: The best advice on writing and publishing for children
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Similes Dictionary
HardcoverOriginal price $59.95Original price $59.95 - Original price $59.95Original price $59.95Current price $50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Language "Appealing As Sunlight After a Storm." A sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn ...
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The Chicago Guide to Copyediting Fiction
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Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus
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The Byline Bible: Get Published in Five Weeks
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Newspaper, magazine, and web editors are desperate for new voices and anyone, in any field, can break in. So why not you? Over the last two decad...
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The Lost Art of Handwriting: Rediscover the Beauty and Power of Penmanship
HardcoverOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Revisit the lost art of writing with these fun prompts, worksheets, exercises—and more!—and experience the many benefits of writing by hand, incl...
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100 Ways to Improve Your Writing (Updated): Proven Professional Techniques for Writing with Style and Power
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First You Write a Sentence: The Elements of Reading, Writing . . . and Life
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“Do you want to write clearer, livelier prose? This witty primer will help.” —The New York Times Book ReviewAn exploration of how the most ordina...
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MLA Handbook
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Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts
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MLA Guide to Undergraduate Research in Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A guide to help students use research sources in literature and filmWhat makes a good research topic in a literature class? What does your profes...
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Guide to Literary Agents 30th Edition: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The Best Resource Available for Finding a Literary Agent, fully revised and updated No matter what you're writing--fiction or nonfiction, books for...
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This Year You Write Your Novel
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Make a Scene Revised and Expanded Edition: Writing a Powerful Story One Scene at a Time
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The definitive guide to writing scenes—now revised and expanded! Scenes are the building blocks for any work of fiction—the DNA sequence that mak...
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