Writers eager to make an impact in the billion-dollar book industry will benefit from this latest installment of the publisher’s “How to” series. It’s a handy, plainspoken manual with a creative approach to the literature... Read More

What a treasure to have a second how-to book of this caliber enter the world for developing writers. This new handbook is like its predecessor in its most important characteristics. Following the format of co-author Kooser’s first... Read More

It is a paradox well worth repeating that no single author is ever quite master of his or her literary material: words outwit and outgrow their writers’ best intentions. (That’s why poetry is not journalism.) This humbling wisdom is... Read More

Writer Peter Turchi calls this volume “a book for writers to turn to when all the handbooks and guides sound too familiar.” Generally speaking, writing books do have rather a lot in common, not so different, in their way, from books... Read More

A biographer has a difficult task. If a person has reached a position interesting enough to warrant a biography, then he or she has surely created a persona that has been as calculatingly shaped as any work of fiction. Tampering with... Read More

This comprehensive guide to writing about American Indians assists both novice and experienced writers who seek to write responsibly and engagingly about America’s first peoples. Beginning with the title, this candid discussion... Read More

Theres an elegant simplicity in the authors idea of “map as metaphor for writing,” one that belies the extensive arguments Turchi mounts in its defense. Bolstering his case by quoting authors as dissimilar as Hemingway and Wolfe,... Read More

Most authors yearn for the Golden Age of publishing when the only imperative for a writer was to write. It was up to the publisher to edit, market, and promote the finished book. That is no longer so in this market-driven era, and this... Read More