Michael Meyer This concise and inexpensive guide to reading and writing about fiction, poetry, and drama is illustrated with plentiful student examples and well-chosen literary selections. It covers finding and...

Author: Susan Rabiner Susan Rabiner and Alfred Fortunato Distilled wisdom from two publishing pros for every serious nonfiction author in search of big commercial success. Over 50,000 books are published...

Dana R Ferris Treatment of Error in Second Language Student Writing is the book many writing teachers have long been looking for: a highly accessible and principled approach to the theory...

Ann PatchettAnn Patchett and the late Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, began a friendship that would be as defining to...

Author: Nell Casey Unholy Ghost is a unique collection of essays about depression that, in the spirit of William Styron's Darkness Visible, finds vivid expression for an elusive illness suffered...

John Dover WilsonJohn Dover Wilson's What Happens in Hamlet is a classic of Shakespeare criticism. First published in 1935, it is still being read throughout the English-speaking world and has...

Patricia T O'Conner "Former New York Times Book Review editor and linguistic expert O'Conner...updates her bestselling guide to grammar, an invigorating and entertaining dissection of our ever-evolving language." - Publishers...

Andrew MelroseWriting for children is not about writing little stories, it is about writing big stories, shorter. Children's literature is an art form in its own right, and this book...

Author: Usborne Aspiring young writers will love this fun activity book full of hints, tips and handy tasks for writing breath-taking stories. The first half of the book is full...

Christopher Vogler The Writer's Journey is a guide to the patterns of mythology that lie nestled in all narrative writing. Based upon the work of Joseph Campbell, it offers the...

Author: Paula Balzer There's more to writing a memoir than just writing your life story.A memoir isn't one long diary entry. Rather, it's a well-crafted story about a crucial, often...

 Roz Ivanic Writing is not just about conveying ‘content’ but also about the representation of self. (One of the reasons people find writing difficult is that they do not feel...