Reading Page

There are so many great books and web sites out there!

HANDY TOOLS

The Chicago Manual of Style, The University
of Chicago Press

The Associated Press Stylebook,
Associated Press

Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary,
Random House

Roget's International Thesaurus,
Harper Resource

Guerilla Marketing for Writers: 101 Weapons for Selling Your Work,
J. C. Levinson, R. Frishman & M. Larsen

EDITING GEMS

*Anne Stilman:
Grammatically Correct

*Amy Einsohn:
The Copyeditor's Handbook

*Leslie Sharpe &
Irene Gunther:
Editing Fact & Fiction

*Floyd Baskette:
The Art of Editing

*Rennie Brown &
Dave King:
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers



 

 

FREELANCE GUIDES

*Jenna Glatzer:
Make a Real Living as a
Freelance Writer

*Jenna Glatzer:
Outwitting Writers' Block: And Other Problems of the Pen

*John Clausen:
Too Lazy to Work, Too Nervous
to Steal


*Peter Bowerman:
The Well-Fed Writer

*Lissa Warren:
The Savvy Author's Guide
to Book Publicity

*Bob Baker:
Poor Richard's Branding
Yourself on Line

*Kelly James-Enger:
Ready, Aim, Specialize!: Create
Your Own Writing Specialty and Make More Money

*Kelly James-Enger:
Six Figure Freelancing: The Writer's Guide to Making
More Money

*Linda Formichelli and
Diana Burrell:

The Renegade Writer: A Totally Unconventional Guide to Freelance Writing Success

WRITING WISDOM

*Barbara DeMarco-Barrett:
Pen on Fire

*Olga Litowinsky:
It's a Bunny-Eat-Bunny World

*Elizabeth Berg:
Escaping into the Open:
The Art of Writing True


*Julia Cameron:
The Right to Write

*Sol Stein:
Stein on Writing

*Robert Ray:
The Weekend Novelist

*James Frey:
How to Write a Damn
Good Novel

*Noah Lukeman:
The First Five Pages


BOOK PROPOSALS/AGENTS

*Eric Maisel:
The Art of the Book Proposal: From Focused Idea to Finished Proposal

*Katharine Sands, editor:
Making the Perfect Pitch: How to Catch a Literary Agent's Eye

*Jeff Herman & Deborah Levine:
Write the Perfect Book Proposal: 10 That
Sold and Why

 

 

 



Texas Book Festival
November 1-2, 2008

 

 

BOOK FAIRS

*LA Times Festival of Books
April 26-27, 2008

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BookExpo America
May 29-June 1, 2008

Miami Book Fair International
November 9-16, 2008