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Alexander Chee, an essayist of “virtuosity and power” (Washington Post), selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.

Revive your book from the bottom of the charts with rights reversion. Have you sold your book to a publisher, but years later it’s not selling the way you want? Are you frustrated with their lack of marketing and little to no royalty payments? It’s time to take back your book rights. This guide will give you the knowledge and confidence to get your book rights reverted and how to place it in front of new readers, on your terms. You will always be your book's biggest champion. Don't condemn it to years of neglect at someone else's hands.

In the first major history of crime fiction in 50 years, The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators traces the evolution of the genre from the 18th century to the present, offering brand-new perspective on the world’s most popular form of fiction.

The hardest yet most essential element of writing great fiction is character—specifically, creating a central hero who is relatable, compelling, and worth the audience's precious time. In this entertaining and practical guide, popular blogger, writing coach and screenwriter Matt Bird breaks down what makes characters embraceable and unforgettable, and presents insider tips and tricks for writers of all levels and genres.

In Plotting a Fantasy Novel, you’ll discover how to create a novel outline in five easy steps. Fantasies are our secret escape to utopia. And with the right tools and techniques, you can create many more escape gateways by writing compelling fantasy novels…novels your readers will be itching to get their hands on. If you dream of seeing your name among the masters of storytelling, it’s time to learn the secrets.

Thanks to this guided storytelling course, you will learn how to create and structure a story from beginning to end, following the archetypes of storytelling. If you have a book in your drawer, if you are missing some incipits or some narrative features, this is the path for you. You will learn to create blocks to build in order to make your story compelling and exciting, and to characterize protagonists, antagonists, and secondary characters following a functional narrative scheme that has been used on many occasions, from TV series to novels and ancient literature.

Over her four decades of working in newsrooms big and small, Margaret Sullivan has become a trusted champion and critic of the American news media. In this bracing memoir, Sullivan traces her life in journalism and how trust in the mainstream press has steadily eroded.

Most of what we say about books is really about the words inside them: the rosy nostalgic glow for childhood reading, the lifetime companionship of a much-loved novel. But books are things as well as words, objects in our lives as well as worlds in our heads. All books are, as Stephen King put it, 'a uniquely portable magic'. Here, Emma Smith shows us why. Portable Magic unfurls an exciting and iconoclastic new story of the book in human hands, exploring when, why and how it acquired its particular hold over us.

Wie du ein professionelles Buchkonzept erstellst. Welches Buch steckt in dir? Hast du dir schon lange vorgenommen, endlich dein eigenes Buch zu schreiben? Oder möchtest du einen professionellen Ratgeber schreiben, um dir als Experte eine Basis zu schaffen und das Vertrauen deiner Leserinnen & Leser aufzubauen? Wenn ja, ist dieses Hörbuch der erfahrenen Autorin Ulrike Luckmann genau das Richtige für dich. Es soll dir helfen, Schreibblockaden zu überwinden, dein Wissen in Struktur zu bringen und den richtigen Weg für deine Veröffentlichung zu finden.

This Quick Start Guide for Writers is packed full of everything you need to know to get started with writing. Whether it’s a fictional novel, a self-help guide, a memoir, or poetry, this tip-guide will help you learn several things. From writing platforms, fluff writing, and basic writing points, to book covers, publishing, and distribution, this quick-start guide will give you an in-depth view of what the world of writing is all about.

In his book-length essay Spirituality and the Writer, Larson surveys the literary insights of authors old and new who have shaped religious autobiography and spiritual memoir - from Augustine to Thomas Merton, from Peter Matthiessen to Cheryl Strayed. He holds them to an exacting standard: They must render transcendent experience in the writing itself.

Editing your own writing can feel like doing your own brain surgery. After you’ve completed your manuscript and you’re standing at the foot of Revision Mountain, climbing to the summit can feel impossible. It’s hard to look at your own writing with the objective eye needed to shape it into a tight, polished, publishable story - but just like writing, self-editing is a skill you can learn.

Long before the current preoccupation with "fake news", American newspapers routinely ran stories that were not quite, strictly speaking, true. Today, a firm boundary between fact and fakery is a hallmark of journalistic practice, yet for many readers and publishers across more than three centuries, this distinction has seemed slippery or even irrelevant.

La maravilla de descubrir la lectura y la escritura desde la infancia, los recuerdos de las primeras páginas escritas, sus olores y lugares, y luego los grandes hallazgos, desde los nombres canónicos de la literatura universal hasta las autoras que la han iluminado, impregnan estas lecciones magistrales que ha impartido Elena Ferrante invitada por la Cátedra Umberto Eco de la Universidad de Bolonia.

Descubre en qué aspectos se fija la crítica literaria para juzgar si un trabajo es bueno o malo. ¿Crees qué tu novela es apta para ser publicada? Muchos escritores se enfrentan a esta pregunta una vez terminan su novela. Con este maravilloso manual someterás tu obra a cien preguntas que revelarán los errores del texto. Corrección a todos los niveles: estructura, portada, diálogos, puntos de vista, narración, tramas, personajes, etc.

Grazie a questo corso sarai in grado di migliorare la tua tecnica di scrittura. Imparerai ad individuare i bisogni del lettore e ad intercettare i suoi desideri inconsci. Ti insegnerò inoltre a strutturare il testo in maniera semplice ed efficace, a trovare idee per i tuoi testi e a creare una connessione emozionale autentica con il tuo lettore.

Patrick Radden Keefe’s work has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US to the Orwell Prize in the UK for his meticulously reported, hypnotically engaging work on the many ways people behave badly. Rogues brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from The New Yorker.

This guide provides a brand-new perspective of how to write, publish, and market a book. It takes the classic writing formula and challenges it, because famous authors are anything but traditional. Join us as we dive deep into the most iconic authors of our time and the secrets to their success. There is a method to the madness, and you can learn to do it too.

In this holistic history, Will Mari traces American journalism from the 1920s through the 1960s, a time of great change and controversy in the field; one in which journalism was produced in “news factories”, by workers with dozens of different roles, using the latest technology, and setting the stage for the emergence of the information economy. Told from an empathetic, omnivorous, ground-up point of view, The American Newsroom uses memoirs, trade journals, textbooks, and archival material to show how the newsroom expanded our ideas of what journalism could and should be.

El libro está escrito en primera persona, es la voz siempre del propio poeta la que conversa con él mismo. La voz del narrador debería ser la de un hombre de más-menos 40 años. Deberá ser una voz varonil, profunda, grave. Nunca que lea en tono de declamación, o recitando, debe ser un poco cómo hablaba el poeta. Aquí dejo un video en el que se escucha la voz de Sabines cuándo leyó para su disco Voz Viva de la UNAM. y algo así deberá de ser la voz del narrador.