Writing Guides

If you’re tired of not getting feedback from all the query letters you send out to agents to find representation and publication for your novel, you must read Elizabeth Kracht’s The Author’s Checklist: An Agent’s Guide to Developing and Editing Your Manuscript.

Writing With Clarity and Style by Robert A. Harris is the first book I have read and reviewed for my new section on writing guides that help writers to write with style. And WOW what a start! Robert says rhetorical devices, often called figures of speech, involve the use of words in special, unusual ways: either in unusual arrangements or with special and unusual meaning. We might distinguish these as figures of structure and figures of thought.

There’s more to writing a successful fantasy story than building a unique world or inventing a new type of magic. From the writing of strong, action-packed scenes to the creation of dynamic, multi-dimensional characters, fantasy author Deborah Chester guides fantasy fiction writers' through a step-by-step process of story construction.

In her book Plot Perfect: Building Unforgettable Stories Scene By Scene, Paula Munier helps writers to create page turning novels with a plot that is so compelling, so multilayered, and so perfect that readers won't be able to put it down. A BIG task, right? Plot Perfect provides the answers on how you can make your story plots as compelling as thousands of successful other bestselling stories, whether that is via your novels, short stories, memoirs, or screenplays.

Wow! I have always loved the Thesaurus range of writing guides by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi, so when I opened my latest writing guide, The Conflict Thesaurus V1, I was bowled over.

Kill Your Characters by former detective and forensic investigator Steve Rush gives you the tools you need to pass the inspection of all the armchair detectives (and more than a few real ones) out there. Discover your ultimate empowerment source for writing the page-turning inciting incident you have always wanted to write. Become a master and save hours of research effort searching elsewhere for accurate information.