For students and writers alike, a brilliant guide to the craft of writing by the National Book Award-winning author of Spartina. National Book Award winner John Casey is a masterful novelist who is also an inspiring and beloved teacher. In Beyond the First Draft he...

As the author of twenty-four novels, Elizabeth George is one of the most successful--and prolific--novelists today. In Mastering the Process, George offers readers a master class in the art and science of crafting a novel. This is a subject she knows well, having taught creative writing...

Responds to repeated requests by Retirees - both Seniors and Baby Boomers - who long to become published authors and have repeatedly requested a simplified, comprehensive, single-volume guidebook to lead them through the confusing publishing process from initial planning to final success.

The renowned novelist and author of This Year You Write a Novel shares a "compact but insight-rich" guide to fiction writing ( Publishers Weekly). In his essential writing guide, This Year You Write Your Novel, Walter Mosley...

Based on the wildly popular creative writing class, this compelling, groundbreaking guide to creative writing is a must-have resource. Enlightening and empowering, The Science of Storytelling has become an invaluable tool for writers of all stripes, whether novelist,...

In his controversial 1857 work, Les Fleurs du mal, the 19th-century decadent poet addresses the conflict of good and evil by rejecting conventional distinctions to pursue beauty in perversity. This volume features selections from Baudelaire’s masterpiece, perhaps the most influential...

A smart and funny guide to writing fiction, with engaging infographics that bring storytelling techniques to life. Whether you are daunted by a blinking cursor or frustrated trying to get the people in your head onto the page, writing stories can be intimidating. It takes passion,...

The art and craft of writing by one of the few grandmasters of American literature, a bonanza for writers and readers co-written by Kurt Vonnegut's former student. Here is an entirely new side of Kurt Vonnegut, Vonnegut as a teacher of writing. Of course he's given us glimpses...