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Unleashing Your Creativity After 50!
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The Author’s Guide to
Building an Online Platform
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by Gene Perret
$14.95 • 200 pages • Tradepaper • ISBN
978-1884956-81-2
All of
us had dreams of being creative when we were young.Then
“life happened.” Now, with families raised, roots set, and careers under
control, it’s time to address your creative self.
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by Stephanie Chandler
$14.95 • 200 pages • Tradepaper
• ISBN 978-1884956-82-9
The buzz word in publishing houses
and at writer’s conferences these days is platform.
As in, “What is the author’s platform?”
With more than 175,000 new titles published each
year, publishers want to sign authors who are capable of helping to sell
their book. Today you can build an international platform right from your
kitchen table—even if your kitchen table is in Manhattan…Kansas.
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Freelancing for Newspapers
Writing for an
Overlooked Market
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The New
Comedy Writing
Step-by-Step
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by Sue Fagalde Lick
$14.95 • Tradepaper • ISBN 1-884956-68-8
Pick up the Sunday paper and consider how many stories it takes to
fill all those pages. How can any newspaper staff produce so many stories
every day, every week, every month of the year and keep up with breaking
news, too?
They can’t. They use freelancers.
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by Gene Perret, Foreword by
Carol Burnett
$14.95 • Tradepaper • ISBN
1-884956-66-1
Three-time Emmy-award winner Gene Perret’s
Comedy Writing Step by Step has been the manual for humor writers
for 24 years. With this, his first update, Perret
offers readers a treasure trove of guidelines and suggestions covering a
broad range of comedy writing situations, along with many all-important
insights into the selling of one’s work.
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Let’s Get Creative
Writing Fiction That Sells
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New Updated Version!
The Portable
Writer’s
Conference
Your Guide to Getting
and Staying Published
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by William F. Nolan $14.95 ($22.95 Canada) • Trade Paperback • ISBN
1-884956-50-5 • May 2006
Using the knowledge inherent in writing more than 90 works of
fiction including Logan’s Run—soon to be a major Warner Bros.
movie—William F. Nolan uses a brisk and humorous style to teach the reader
how to craft novels and short stories that sell.
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Edited by Stephen Blake Mettee
$19.95 ($29.95 Canada) • 464 pp •Trade
Paperback
Advice from more than 45 noted authors, agents and editors.
A Writer's Digest Book Club Selection
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101 Best Scenes Ever Written
A Romp through Literature for
Writers and Readers
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Emotional Structure
Creating the Story Beneath the Plot: A Guide for
Screenwriters
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by Barnaby Conrad • $14.95 ($22.95 Canada) • 244 pages Trade Paper • ISBN
1-884956-56-4 • May 2006
Readers will delight to the best scenes
ever written. They will find old favorites and savor scenes new to them.
With each scene, Conrad provides insights as to what
the author wishes to accomplish with this passage and the literary devices he
or she employed.
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by Peter Dunne $14.95 ($22.95 Canada) • 244 pages • Trade Paperback
• ISBN 1-884956-53-X • April 2006
Using his three decades of experience writing, and producing scripts, (“Dallas,” “Melrose Place,” “CSI”
etc.) Dunne takes the reader through a step-by-step process of creating a
script whose emotional composition rings true and whose arrangement of
complex character conflicts forms the film’s ultimate passion.
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Damn! That's Funny
The Professional Guide to Writing Humorous
Articles You Can Sell!
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New Updated Version!
Damn! Why Didn't I
Write That?
How Ordinary People are Raking in $100,000.00 ..or More Writing
Nonfiction Books & How You Can Too!
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by Gene Perret
$14.95 ($20.95 Canada) • Tradepaper
• 228 pages
ISBN 1-884956-44-0
Learn from a true pro what makes readers laugh, how to write
humorous pieces, how to add humor to serious articles, and how to market
their material. Written by television comedy writer Gene Perret, a three-time Emmy award winner and longtime
head-writer for Bob Hope.
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by Marc McCutcheon
$14.95 ($22.50 Canada) • 256 pp •Trade Paper
This guide, by best-selling author Marc McCutcheon, shows the reader
how to cash in by identifying lucrative publishing niches and filling them,
not once, not twice, but year after year.
A Book-of-the-Month Club Selection!
A Quality Paperback Book Club Selection!
A Writer’s Digest Book Club Selection!
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LifeWriting
Drawing from Personal Experience to Create
Features You Can Publish
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by Fred D. White, Ph.D.
$14.95 ($23.50 Canada) • 192 pages • Trade Paper
Lifewriting is people-centered nonfiction writing. Not just
autobiographical or biographical, lifewriting
encompasses a broad range of personal-experience narratives. Lifewriting can be serious or humorous or both. It can
include any kind of subject matter because people are always at the heart
of any endeavor.
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Pitching Hollywood
How to Sell Your TV and Movie Ideas
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Writers’ & Artists’ Hideouts
Great Getaways for
Seducing the Muse
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by Jonathan Koch and Robert Kosberg
with Tanya Meurer Norman
$12.95 (19.95 Canada) • 120 pages • Trade Paper
Anyone who has a great idea for a movie or a TV show shouldn’t miss reading
this book. Two successful movie and TV producers provide the reader with
the tools he needs to create, develop and sell ideas to Hollywood.
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by Andrea Brown
$14.95 (23.50 Canada) • 224 pages • Trade Paper
Find the perfect places to seduce the muse in this
charming, practical guide. Read astute advice from editors,
literary agents, authors, illustrators, art directors and other creative
people on harnessing one’s creativity.
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The ABC's of Writing
for Children
112 Children’s Authors and Illustrators
Talk About the Art, the Business, the Craft, and the Life of Writing Children’s
Literature
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The Fast Track Course on
How to Write a
Nonfiction Book Proposal
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by Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff
$16.95 ($26.50 Canada) • 341 pp • Trade Paper
A warm, friendly exploration of how to write for children
and what it is like to be a children’s author. Full of
anecdotes.
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by Stephen Blake Mettee
$12.95 ($19.95 Canada) • 128 pp• Trade Paperback
Cuts to the chase and provides simple, detailed instruction that
allows anyone to write a professional book proposal and hear an editor say
Yes!
A Writer’s Digest Book Club Selection!
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Feminine Wiles
Creative Techniques for Writing Women’s
Feature Stories That Sell
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Quit Your Day Job!
How to Sleep Late, Do What You Enjoy, and
Make a Ton of Money
as a Writer!
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by Donna Elizabeth Boetig
$14.95 ($22.50 Canada) • 191pp• Trade Paperback
Learn 39 things editors like from writers.
A Writer's Digest Book Club Selection
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by Jim Denney
$14.95 (29.95 Canada) • 240 pages •Trade Paper
This is not a book of fluff and glittering platitudes. Denney lays
out a sound, strategic plan for building a career as a full-time writer.
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