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Struggling to find inspiration or battling writer’s block? Whether you’re an aspiring author, a seasoned storyteller, or someone just looking to reconnect with the joy of writing, this book is your ultimate guide to unlocking your creative potential. With 101 unique exercises, you’ll dive into character creation, sensory details, dialogue, and even explore new genres like mystery, fantasy, or romance.

If you're ready to discover and refine your writing voice, The Voice Quest is the companion you need. Whether you're just starting out, studying writing in college, or rekindling your love for storytelling, this book offers practical, relatable advice to help you find and embrace your authentic voice.

When it comes to writing books, are you a "plotter" or a "pantser"? Is one method really better than the other? In this instructional book, author Libbie Hawker explains the benefits and technique of planning a story before you begin to write. She'll show you how to develop a foolproof character arc and plot, how to pace any book for a can't-put-down reading experience, and how to ensure that your stories are complete and satisfying without wasting any time or words.

How to Make an Audiobook is a step by step guide for independent publishers and authors to help navigate the wide-world of audiobook production. Including budgeting, casting, distribution, prepping manuscripts, recording audio, as well as marketing techniques used by successful authors in the industry.

In this book, award-winning author and creative entrepreneur Joanna Penn takes you step-by-step through the process of writing, publishing, and marketing a successful non-fiction book. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to level up your author career, How to Write Non-Fiction gives you the tools and confidence to write the book you’re meant to write.

Do you want to be a more relaxed author? There are plenty of books and tips on writing faster, learning more marketing tactics and strategies, trying to maximize your ranking, hitting the top of the charts, juicing the algorithms, and hacking different ad platforms. While these are all important things - which the authors themselves regularly write and talk about - it's also important to recognize that your author journey is a marathon, and not a sprint.

In February 1943, a group of journalists - including a young wire service correspondent named Walter Cronkite and cub reporter Andy Rooney - clamored to fly along on a bombing raid over Nazi Germany. Seven of the 64 bombers that attacked a U-boat base that day never made it back to England. A fellow survivor, Homer Bigart of the New York Herald Tribune, asked Cronkite if he’d thought through a lede. "I think I’m going to say," mused Cronkite, “that I’ve just returned from an assignment to hell."

This is a self-publish, guidebook to help you along your journey to becoming a first-time publisher on Amazon KDP and other platforms. This could be your path to financial freedom and books will be around forever. You will get the opportunity to create generational wealth for your family and loved ones in perpetuity. As royalties is an asset that you can pass down to your children forever. I don’t just want you as a listener to think to yourself and say this is your dream, however, you are not taking the necessary steps and initiative to get your dreams to become reality.

Would you like to learn about screenwriting? If so, Screenwriting 101 may be the all-in-one audiobook you have been searching for. Discover how to: write a compelling story, overcome writer’s block, protect your work, market & sell your script, and get an agent.

Long before the rise of mega-corporations like Wal-Mart and Microsoft, Standard Oil controlled the oil industry with a monopolistic force unprecedented in American business history. Undaunted by the ruthless power of its owner, John D. Rockefeller, a fearless and ambitious reporter named Ida Minerva Tarbell confronted the company known simply as "The Trust".

It's so easy to focus on writing and marketing because that’s what builds a writing career. But if you don’t plan on what will happen to your books after your death, everything you’re doing right now won’t matter. This book will help you get your affairs in order and create an estate plan so that you can create a legacy that will continue making money for your family long after you're gone. From passwords to bank accounts to book retailer accounts, this book will hold your hand through the process of getting your ducks in a row.

Whether you’re a beginner with big ideas or a seasoned artist ready to publish your first graphic novel, Ink & Impact is your all-in-one roadmap to creating powerful, professional-level comics and manga—your way.

Learn how to write a screenplay today the easiest way! An increasing number of people have taken to script writing as a way of breaking into the movies. Unfortunately, there is also widespread misunderstanding as to exactly what a screenplay is and how it differs from other types of written work. This audiobook attempts to help young writers become scriptwriters by explaining what a screenplay is and how to write them so that they can avoid many of the common pitfalls that befall many inexperienced writers, and provide them with some of the tools that they will need to succeed.

This first audio edition of Poetry in Person: 25 Years of Conversation with America’s Poets (Knopf, 2010), invites listeners into an intimate classroom with eight acclaimed poets. Full of compelling, in-depth conversation about manuscripts and drafts by the poets themselves, plus readings of the finished poems, these historic recordings offer one of the most detailed portraits ever produced of how poems are actually made.

Franck Thilliez livre ses secrets pour faire frissonner le public, grâce à la lecture malicieuse de Sylvain Agaësse. Le maître du thriller français nous ouvre les portes fascinantes de son imaginaire : traque des idées, construction des personnages, quête de l'angoisse, rien n'est laissé au hasard. Dans ce livre audio, Franck Thilliez raconte comment il transforme ses cauchemars en récits diaboliques. De quoi surprendre et captiver encore ses lecteurs qui remonteront les mécanismes implacables de la fabrique de la peur jusqu'au plaisir.

Le maître du suspense dévoile ses secrets d'écriture, à travers la voix enveloppante de François Hatt ! Depuis Nymphéas noirs Michel Bussi enchaîne les best-sellers. Dans un récit captivant, cet " inventeur d'histoires " nous invite au cœur des mystères de l'écriture, depuis les premières intrigues imaginées durant l'enfance en Normandie jusqu'à l'écriture du premier livre et l'euphorie des premiers succès. Un voyage littéraire dans les secrets d'écriture de l'auteur avec les quarante " commandements " du suspense et du twist.

Distinguished author Phillip Lopate, editor of the celebrated anthology The Art of the Personal Essay, is universally acclaimed as “one of our best personal essayists” ( Dallas Morning News). Here, combining more than 40 years of lessons from his storied career as a writer and professor, he brings us this highly anticipated nuts-and-bolts guide to writing literary nonfiction. A phenomenal master class shaped by Lopate’s informative, accessible tone, and immense gift for storytelling.

In the 17 wide-ranging essays collected for the first time in Love and Other Ways of Dying, he brings his full literary powers to bear, pondering happiness and grief, memory and the redemptive power of human connection. In the remote Ukranian countryside, Paterniti picks apples (and faces mortality) with a real-life giant; in Nanjing, China, he confronts a distraught jumper on a suicide bridge.

Erin Arvedlund, the financial reporter who questioned the amazing returns of Bernie Madoff's hedge funds way back in 2001, traces the life of the infamous swindler and addresses the tough questions surrounding the collapse of his Ponzi scheme.

Kim Scaravelli has been writing online content for over 20 years. Over that time, she has helped hundreds of organizations build authority, communicate effectively, and develop meaningful connections with people. In this practical guide, she walks you through the process of writing, from setting up your writing space to researching, crafting first drafts, editing, and mastering the long game. Because success isn't about being able to write one piece of content. It's about being able to create content whenever you need to and enjoying the feeling of making words work.