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Beginnings, Middles & Ends

av Nancy Kress • 1992

Three pages to lose an editor: a framework for beginnings, middles, and endings that deliver.

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📖 Fiction Craft 🏗 Story Structure 📈 Plot Development 🎭 Character Arcs 🪝 Opening Hooks

Beginnings, Middles & Ends

Three pages to lose an editor: a framework for beginnings, middles, and endings that deliver.

av Nancy Kress 1992 149 sidor

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📖 Fiction Craft 🏗 Story Structure 📈 Plot Development 🎭 Character Arcs 🪝 Opening Hooks

Damn Fine Story

av Chuck Wendig • 2017

Storytelling starts when a character's world breaks. The tools for what comes next.

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📝 Storytelling Craft ✍️ Fiction Writing 👤 Character Craft 🏗️ Plot Structure ⚡ Narrative Tension

Damn Fine Story

Storytelling starts when a character's world breaks. The tools for what comes next.

av Chuck Wendig 2017 240 sidor

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📝 Storytelling Craft ✍️ Fiction Writing 👤 Character Craft 🏗️ Plot Structure ⚡ Narrative Tension

Accelerated Learning

av Ryan James • 2017

A book every day. Total recall on demand. The step-by-step techniques that make both trainable.

3.46

197

🏃 Speed Reading 🧠 Memory Techniques 🔢 Mnemonic Systems 👁️ Visualization Methods 🗺️ Mind Mapping

Accelerated Learning

A book every day. Total recall on demand. The step-by-step techniques that make both trainable.

av Ryan James 2017 131 sidor

3.46

197 betyg

🏃 Speed Reading 🧠 Memory Techniques 🔢 Mnemonic Systems 👁️ Visualization Methods 🗺️ Mind Mapping

Economical Writing

av Deirdre Nansen McCloskey • 1999

An economist's 35 rules for sharp, persuasive writing: no talent required.

4.16

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📝 Writing Craft 🔍 Clarity ✂️ Conciseness 🎓 Academic Writing 🔄 Revision

Economical Writing

An economist's 35 rules for sharp, persuasive writing: no talent required.

av Deirdre Nansen McCloskey 1999 176 sidor

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📝 Writing Craft 🔍 Clarity ✂️ Conciseness 🎓 Academic Writing 🔄 Revision

The Library of Ever

av Zeno Alexander • 2019

A bored girl finds a door into a magical library, where protecting books means fighting the dark.

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🏛️ Magical Library 🚪 Portal Fantasy 📚 Librarian Hero 🤝 Unlikely Allies 🐋 Talking Animals

The Library of Ever

A bored girl finds a door into a magical library, where protecting books means fighting the dark.

av Zeno Alexander 2019 197 sidor

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🏛️ Magical Library 🚪 Portal Fantasy 📚 Librarian Hero 🤝 Unlikely Allies 🐋 Talking Animals

The Sentence is Death

av Anthony Horowitz • 2018

A novelist plays Watson to a difficult detective investigating a lawyer bludgeoned with a rare wine.

3.98

57 000+

📚 Metafictional Mystery 🔍 Modern Whodunit 🕵️ Brilliant Abrasive Detective 👥 Odd Couple Sleuths 🎭 Red Herring Clues

The Sentence is Death

A novelist plays Watson to a difficult detective investigating a lawyer bludgeoned with a rare wine.

av Anthony Horowitz 2018 373 sidor

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📚 Metafictional Mystery 🔍 Modern Whodunit 🕵️ Brilliant Abrasive Detective 👥 Odd Couple Sleuths 🎭 Red Herring Clues

Little Blue Encyclopedia

av Hazel Jane Plante • 2019

An encyclopedia of a cult TV show becomes a memorial for her magnetic trans friend Vivian.

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📖 Encyclopedic Novel 📺 Fictional Tv Show 💔 Grieving For A Friend 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Womanhood 🤝 Queer Friendship

Little Blue Encyclopedia

An encyclopedia of a cult TV show becomes a memorial for her magnetic trans friend Vivian.

av Hazel Jane Plante 2019 200 sidor

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📖 Encyclopedic Novel 📺 Fictional Tv Show 💔 Grieving For A Friend 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Womanhood 🤝 Queer Friendship

Elements of Fiction Writing - Scene & Structure

av Jack M. Bickham • 1993

Your novel drags because your scenes end well. End them badly and the pages turn themselves.

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🖋️ Fiction Craft 🏗️ Narrative Structure 🎬 Scene Craft 📐 Plot Architecture ⏳ Suspense Craft

Elements of Fiction Writing - Scene & Structure

Your novel drags because your scenes end well. End them badly and the pages turn themselves.

av Jack M. Bickham 1993 270 sidor

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🖋️ Fiction Craft 🏗️ Narrative Structure 🎬 Scene Craft 📐 Plot Architecture ⏳ Suspense Craft

How To Write A Novel The Easy Way Using The Pulp Fiction Method To Write Better Novels

av Jim Driver • 2014

How pulp writers finished novels without writer's block, and how you can do the same.

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🖋️ Novel Writing 💰 Commercial Fiction 🏗️ Story Structure ⚡ Writing Productivity 👤 Character Development

How To Write A Novel The Easy Way Using The Pulp Fiction Method To Write Better Novels

How pulp writers finished novels without writer's block, and how you can do the same.

av Jim Driver 2014 94 sidor

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🖋️ Novel Writing 💰 Commercial Fiction 🏗️ Story Structure ⚡ Writing Productivity 👤 Character Development

Lost in Thought

av Zena Hitz • 2020

The intellectual life as a secret refuge: why the best thinking happens far from ambition.

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💭 Life Of The Mind 🧘 Contemplative Life 📖 Defenses Of Reading ⚖️ Virtue Ethics ✝️ Christian Humanism

Lost in Thought

The intellectual life as a secret refuge: why the best thinking happens far from ambition.

av Zena Hitz 2020 240 sidor

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💭 Life Of The Mind 🧘 Contemplative Life 📖 Defenses Of Reading ⚖️ Virtue Ethics ✝️ Christian Humanism

Book Lust

av Nancy Pearl • 2003

What to read next, organized not by genre but by how you feel right now.

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🧭 Book Discovery 🎭 Mood-Based Reading 🧠 Bibliotherapy 📚 Book Lists 🔍 Hidden Gems

Book Lust

What to read next, organized not by genre but by how you feel right now.

av Nancy Pearl 2003 287 sidor

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🧭 Book Discovery 🎭 Mood-Based Reading 🧠 Bibliotherapy 📚 Book Lists 🔍 Hidden Gems

The Meaning of Everything

av Simon Winchester • 2003

A garden shed, an unpaid army, five million slips: the making of the Oxford English Dictionary.

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📚 Lexicography 📜 Historical Linguistics 🙋 Volunteer Scholarship 📝 Descriptive Linguistics 🏛️ Philology

The Meaning of Everything

A garden shed, an unpaid army, five million slips: the making of the Oxford English Dictionary.

av Simon Winchester 2003 288 sidor

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📚 Lexicography 📜 Historical Linguistics 🙋 Volunteer Scholarship 📝 Descriptive Linguistics 🏛️ Philology

Q's Legacy

av Helene Hanff • 1985

A professor's lectures led to a London bookshop, twenty years of letters, and accidental fame.

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🖋️ Literary Memoir 📚 Book Collecting 🎓 Self-Education ✉️ Literary Correspondence 📖 Books As Companions

Q's Legacy

A professor's lectures led to a London bookshop, twenty years of letters, and accidental fame.

av Helene Hanff 1985 177 sidor

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🖋️ Literary Memoir 📚 Book Collecting 🎓 Self-Education ✉️ Literary Correspondence 📖 Books As Companions

Writing Fantasy Heroes

av Jason M. Waltz • 2008

Turn your fantasy heroes from armored clichés into people who bleed, doubt, and still inspire.

3.87

215

✍️ Fantasy Writing ⚔️ Heroic Fantasy 😬 Reluctant Heroes 🔄 Trope Subversion 🌀 Mythic Structure

Writing Fantasy Heroes

Turn your fantasy heroes from armored clichés into people who bleed, doubt, and still inspire.

av Jason M. Waltz 2008 216 sidor

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✍️ Fantasy Writing ⚔️ Heroic Fantasy 😬 Reluctant Heroes 🔄 Trope Subversion 🌀 Mythic Structure

90 Days to Your Novel

av Sarah Domet • 2010

A novel in 90 days: the daily plan that trades inspiration for routine and complete draft.

3.77

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📖 Novel Writing 📝 First Drafts ⏰ Daily Writing Habit 🗺️ Outlining Methods 🧱 Scene Construction

90 Days to Your Novel

A novel in 90 days: the daily plan that trades inspiration for routine and complete draft.

av Sarah Domet 2010 288 sidor

3.77

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📖 Novel Writing 📝 First Drafts ⏰ Daily Writing Habit 🗺️ Outlining Methods 🧱 Scene Construction

The Successful Author Mindset

av Joanna Penn • 2009

You can master plot and still not finish. The missing manual for the writer's inner game.

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✍️ Writing Mindset 💼 Author Career 🎭 Imposter Syndrome 🎯 Perfectionism 🗣️ Inner Critic

The Successful Author Mindset

You can master plot and still not finish. The missing manual for the writer's inner game.

av Joanna Penn 2009

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✍️ Writing Mindset 💼 Author Career 🎭 Imposter Syndrome 🎯 Perfectionism 🗣️ Inner Critic

Between You & Me

av Mary Norris • 2015

Punctuation, pronouns, profanity: the New Yorker copy desk's secrets for making every sentence work.

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📝 Copy Editing ✏️ Punctuation Marks 📚 Language Memoir 🧐 Editorial Judgment 🗽 New Yorker Style

Between You & Me

Punctuation, pronouns, profanity: the New Yorker copy desk's secrets for making every sentence work.

av Mary Norris 2015 240 sidor

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📝 Copy Editing ✏️ Punctuation Marks 📚 Language Memoir 🧐 Editorial Judgment 🗽 New Yorker Style

Murder by the Book

av Amie Schaumberg • 2025

A professor deciphers a killer's staged literary deaths before she becomes his final masterpiece.

3.41

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🖤 Dark Academia 🔍 Academic Mystery 🕵️ Amateur Sleuth 🎭 Staged Crime Scenes 📖 Literary References

Murder by the Book

A professor deciphers a killer's staged literary deaths before she becomes his final masterpiece.

av Amie Schaumberg 2025 352 sidor

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🖤 Dark Academia 🔍 Academic Mystery 🕵️ Amateur Sleuth 🎭 Staged Crime Scenes 📖 Literary References

Life Lessons Harry Potter Taught Me

av Jill Kolongowski • 2017

What the Harry Potter books taught you about life, long after you finished reading them.

3.94

256

🎬 Pop Culture Wisdom 📖 Literary Self-Help 👥 Belonging 🛡️ Courage And Resilience 🤝 Prejudice And Empathy

Life Lessons Harry Potter Taught Me

What the Harry Potter books taught you about life, long after you finished reading them.

av Jill Kolongowski 2017 178 sidor

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🎬 Pop Culture Wisdom 📖 Literary Self-Help 👥 Belonging 🛡️ Courage And Resilience 🤝 Prejudice And Empathy

The Shadow of a Great Rock

av Harold Bloom • 2011

The King James Bible as literature: irony, personality, a god more character than creator.

3.48

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📖 Scripture As Literature 👑 King James Bible 🎨 Aesthetic Criticism 🔄 Bible Translation ✡️ Hebrew Bible

The Shadow of a Great Rock

The King James Bible as literature: irony, personality, a god more character than creator.

av Harold Bloom 2011 320 sidor

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📖 Scripture As Literature 👑 King James Bible 🎨 Aesthetic Criticism 🔄 Bible Translation ✡️ Hebrew Bible

Plot

av Ansen Dibell • 1988

Plot isn't what happens; it's why it matters. A practical guide to structuring fiction that grips.

3.88

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✍️ Fiction Craft 🏗️ Story Structure ⚙️ Plot Mechanics 🎬 Scene Construction ⏳ Narrative Pacing

Plot

Plot isn't what happens; it's why it matters. A practical guide to structuring fiction that grips.

av Ansen Dibell 1988 176 sidor

3.88

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✍️ Fiction Craft 🏗️ Story Structure ⚙️ Plot Mechanics 🎬 Scene Construction ⏳ Narrative Pacing

The Well-Spoken Thesaurus

av Tom Heehler • 2011

Eloquence isn't big words. Master the small ones: prepositions, articles, and rhythmic restraint.

4.17

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🖋️ Rhetorical Style 📚 Vocabulary Building ✍️ Word Craft 🎭 Figurative Language 🗣️ Rhetorical Devices

The Well-Spoken Thesaurus

Eloquence isn't big words. Master the small ones: prepositions, articles, and rhythmic restraint.

av Tom Heehler 2011 400 sidor

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🖋️ Rhetorical Style 📚 Vocabulary Building ✍️ Word Craft 🎭 Figurative Language 🗣️ Rhetorical Devices

How Not to Get Rich

av Alan Pell Crawford • 2014

Before he was America's most beloved author, Mark Twain was its most disastrous investor.

3.63

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🏦 Financial Biography 🎩 Gilded Age ✍️ Literary Biography 📉 Business Failures 🎲 Speculation

How Not to Get Rich

Before he was America's most beloved author, Mark Twain was its most disastrous investor.

av Alan Pell Crawford 2014 224 sidor

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🏦 Financial Biography 🎩 Gilded Age ✍️ Literary Biography 📉 Business Failures 🎲 Speculation

Fire Up Your Writing Brain

av Susan Reynolds • 2015

Writer's block is a neural habit. Rewire it with the brain science that helps you finish.

3.81

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✍️ Writing Craft 🧠 Neuroplasticity 🚧 Creative Blocks 🔄 Habit Formation ⏰ Writing Routines

Fire Up Your Writing Brain

Writer's block is a neural habit. Rewire it with the brain science that helps you finish.

av Susan Reynolds 2015 272 sidor

3.81

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✍️ Writing Craft 🧠 Neuroplasticity 🚧 Creative Blocks 🔄 Habit Formation ⏰ Writing Routines

Read Books All Day and Get Paid For It

av Jennie Nash • 2019

Turn editorial skills into a thriving coaching business, from niche selection to real paydays.

4.48

145

💼 Coaching Business ✍️ Writing Mentorship 🎯 Niche Marketing 💰 Value-Based Pricing 🤝 Client Attraction

Read Books All Day and Get Paid For It

Turn editorial skills into a thriving coaching business, from niche selection to real paydays.

av Jennie Nash 2019 152 sidor

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💼 Coaching Business ✍️ Writing Mentorship 🎯 Niche Marketing 💰 Value-Based Pricing 🤝 Client Attraction

Read to Lead

av Jeff Brown • 2021

The system for reading more, remembering it all, turning books into a leadership edge.

4.20

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📚 Reading Habits 🔄 Habit Design 🚀 Leadership Development ⏰ Time Management 📈 Career Acceleration

Read to Lead

The system for reading more, remembering it all, turning books into a leadership edge.

av Jeff Brown 2021 240 sidor

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📚 Reading Habits 🔄 Habit Design 🚀 Leadership Development ⏰ Time Management 📈 Career Acceleration

The Writer's Idea Book

av Jack Heffron • 2000

Never run out of material: habits and prompts to keep you writing through every block.

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✍️ Writing Craft 💡 Writing Prompts 🧱 Writer's Block 🌱 Idea Generation 🧠 Inner Critic

The Writer's Idea Book

Never run out of material: habits and prompts to keep you writing through every block.

av Jack Heffron 2000 262 sidor

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✍️ Writing Craft 💡 Writing Prompts 🧱 Writer's Block 🌱 Idea Generation 🧠 Inner Critic

The Professor and the Madman

av Simon Winchester • 1998

The Oxford English Dictionary's most prolific contributor was a murderer confined to an asylum.

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🎯 Lexicography 🔗 Criminal Insanity 💥 Civil War Trauma 🎩 Victorian Scholarship 📚 Bibliomania

The Professor and the Madman

The Oxford English Dictionary's most prolific contributor was a murderer confined to an asylum.

av Simon Winchester 1998 242 sidor

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🎯 Lexicography 🔗 Criminal Insanity 💥 Civil War Trauma 🎩 Victorian Scholarship 📚 Bibliomania

Description & Setting

av Ron Rozelle • 2005

Harvest details. Deploy the senses. Make setting an engine for character, mood, and plot.

4.02

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✍️ Writing Craft 🖼️ Descriptive Writing 📖 Fiction Technique 👁️ Show Don't Tell 🗺️ Setting Development

Description & Setting

Harvest details. Deploy the senses. Make setting an engine for character, mood, and plot.

av Ron Rozelle 2005 224 sidor

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✍️ Writing Craft 🖼️ Descriptive Writing 📖 Fiction Technique 👁️ Show Don't Tell 🗺️ Setting Development

The Vanishing Bookstore

av Helen Phifer • 2026

Before thirty-five, the witch hunter always kills her. Dora has one lifetime to end the curse.

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🖤 Generational Witch Curse ⏳ Dual Timeline Witches 💫 Reincarnated Lovers 🌿 Herbal Healing Magic ✨ Sisterhood Magic

The Vanishing Bookstore

Before thirty-five, the witch hunter always kills her. Dora has one lifetime to end the curse.

av Helen Phifer 2026 314 sidor

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🖤 Generational Witch Curse ⏳ Dual Timeline Witches 💫 Reincarnated Lovers 🌿 Herbal Healing Magic ✨ Sisterhood Magic

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five

av Curtis Smith • 2016

A writer unpacks the alien logic and buried grief inside Vonnegut's time-jumping anti-war classic.

4.27

📚 Literary Criticism ⚔️ War Literature 🔄 Postmodern Fiction 💔 Trauma And Narrative 🌌 Existentialism

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five

A writer unpacks the alien logic and buried grief inside Vonnegut's time-jumping anti-war classic.

av Curtis Smith 2016 188 sidor

4.27

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📚 Literary Criticism ⚔️ War Literature 🔄 Postmodern Fiction 💔 Trauma And Narrative 🌌 Existentialism

Bunk

av Kevin Young • 2017

America's real tradition is the hoax, and its most reliable lever is race.

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🎭 Hoaxes And Deception 📝 Cultural Criticism 🎪 Racial Appropriation 📚 Literary Hoaxes ✍️ Plagiarism

Bunk

America's real tradition is the hoax, and its most reliable lever is race.

av Kevin Young 2017 560 sidor

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🎭 Hoaxes And Deception 📝 Cultural Criticism 🎪 Racial Appropriation 📚 Literary Hoaxes ✍️ Plagiarism

Writing Alone, Writing Together

av Judy Reeves • 2002

How to start a writing group that provides feedback, builds accountability, and keeps you writing.

4.01

👥 Writing Community ✍️ Writing Workshops 🖋️ Freewriting 👓 Peer Critique 🎨 Creativity Exercises

Writing Alone, Writing Together

How to start a writing group that provides feedback, builds accountability, and keeps you writing.

av Judy Reeves 2002 265 sidor

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78 betyg

👥 Writing Community ✍️ Writing Workshops 🖋️ Freewriting 👓 Peer Critique 🎨 Creativity Exercises

The Book Eaters

av Sunyi Dean • 2022

A book eater's son hungers for minds. She feeds him strangers while their family's knights close in.

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🩸 Vampire Reimagining 🖤 Found Family 🐺 Protective Mother 🕯️ Gothic Dread 🦷 Body Horror

The Book Eaters

A book eater's son hungers for minds. She feeds him strangers while their family's knights close in.

av Sunyi Dean 2022 298 sidor

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🩸 Vampire Reimagining 🖤 Found Family 🐺 Protective Mother 🕯️ Gothic Dread 🦷 Body Horror

How to Write a Dynamite Scene Using the Snowflake Method

av Randy Ingermanson • 2018

Two scene patterns drive every novel: one forces a setback, the other forces a hard choice.

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🎬 Scene Construction 📖 Novel Writing 🏗️ Story Structure ⚙️ Story Engineering 📋 Structured Outlining

How to Write a Dynamite Scene Using the Snowflake Method

Two scene patterns drive every novel: one forces a setback, the other forces a hard choice.

av Randy Ingermanson 2018 156 sidor

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🎬 Scene Construction 📖 Novel Writing 🏗️ Story Structure ⚙️ Story Engineering 📋 Structured Outlining

The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes

av Jack M. Bickham • 1992

Thirty-eight mistakes that mark your fiction as amateur, and how to fix every single one.

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🖋️ Fiction Craft 📚 Writing Reference 🏗️ Story Structure 🎭 Character Development 🎬 Show Don't Tell

The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes

Thirty-eight mistakes that mark your fiction as amateur, and how to fix every single one.

av Jack M. Bickham 1992 117 sidor

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🖋️ Fiction Craft 📚 Writing Reference 🏗️ Story Structure 🎭 Character Development 🎬 Show Don't Tell

How to Write Romantasy

av Jenna Moreci • 2025

Romance and fantasy demand opposite things from a story. Here is how to make them inseparable.

4.15

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🏰 Fantasy Writing 💕 Romance Writing 🌍 Worldbuilding ⚡ Character Chemistry 📋 Plotting Methods

How to Write Romantasy

Romance and fantasy demand opposite things from a story. Here is how to make them inseparable.

av Jenna Moreci 2025 240 sidor

4.15

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🏰 Fantasy Writing 💕 Romance Writing 🌍 Worldbuilding ⚡ Character Chemistry 📋 Plotting Methods

Seldom Disappointed

av Tony Hillerman • 2001

Wounded infantryman, journalist, 45-year-old professor: the unlikely path to the Navajo mysteries.

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✍️ Writer's Memoir 📝 Craft Of Writing 🏹 Native American Culture 🌐 Writing Across Cultures 🪖 Greatest Generation

Seldom Disappointed

Wounded infantryman, journalist, 45-year-old professor: the unlikely path to the Navajo mysteries.

av Tony Hillerman 2001 530 sidor

4.01

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✍️ Writer's Memoir 📝 Craft Of Writing 🏹 Native American Culture 🌐 Writing Across Cultures 🪖 Greatest Generation

The Language of the Night

av Ursula K. Le Guin • 1979

Beauty is morality, prose is the novel, and fantasy speaks to the unconscious.

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✍️ Writing Craft 📝 Essays On Writing 🐉 Genre Fiction Defense 🎭 Art And Ethics 🧠 Jungian Psychology

The Language of the Night

Beauty is morality, prose is the novel, and fantasy speaks to the unconscious.

av Ursula K. Le Guin 1979 304 sidor

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✍️ Writing Craft 📝 Essays On Writing 🐉 Genre Fiction Defense 🎭 Art And Ethics 🧠 Jungian Psychology

Strangers in Time

av David Baldacci • 2025

An orphan thief, a privileged girl, and a bookseller spy forge a family in the Blitz.

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🫂 Found Family 💣 The Blitz 🧒 War Orphans 📚 Bookshop Sanctuary 🌉 Cross-Class Friendship

Strangers in Time

An orphan thief, a privileged girl, and a bookseller spy forge a family in the Blitz.

av David Baldacci 2025 435 sidor

4.13

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🫂 Found Family 💣 The Blitz 🧒 War Orphans 📚 Bookshop Sanctuary 🌉 Cross-Class Friendship

More Baths, Less Talking

av Nick Hornby • 2012

A book column about what a middle-aged man actually read, not what he pretended to.

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📚 Reading Memoirs 🐢 Slow Reading ✍️ Life And Letters 🗞️ Cultural Commentary 🤔 Everyday Philosophy

More Baths, Less Talking

A book column about what a middle-aged man actually read, not what he pretended to.

av Nick Hornby 2012 135 sidor

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📚 Reading Memoirs 🐢 Slow Reading ✍️ Life And Letters 🗞️ Cultural Commentary 🤔 Everyday Philosophy

Talking as Fast as I Can

av Lauren Graham • 2016

A grade skipped, a backside bared, and the long road from Chili's to Stars Hollow.

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🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🎭 Acting Life ✍️ Writing Process ⏲️ Creative Productivity 👩‍🎤 Women In Entertainment

Talking as Fast as I Can

A grade skipped, a backside bared, and the long road from Chili's to Stars Hollow.

av Lauren Graham 2016 224 sidor

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🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🎭 Acting Life ✍️ Writing Process ⏲️ Creative Productivity 👩‍🎤 Women In Entertainment

The Lonely Hearts Book Club

av Lucy Gilmore • 2023

A shy librarian breaks one rule to find a missing curmudgeon and accidentally builds a family.

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🫂 Found Family 👵 Intergenerational Friendship 😤 Grumpy Old Man 📚 Healing Through Books 🏛️ Library Setting

The Lonely Hearts Book Club

A shy librarian breaks one rule to find a missing curmudgeon and accidentally builds a family.

av Lucy Gilmore 2023 352 sidor

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🫂 Found Family 👵 Intergenerational Friendship 😤 Grumpy Old Man 📚 Healing Through Books 🏛️ Library Setting

Book in a Month

av Victoria Lynn Schmidt • 2008

A complete novel draft in 30 days: write forward, fix nothing, reach the end.

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📝 Novel Writing ✍️ Writing Craft ⚡ Fast Drafting 🏗️ Story Structure 🧱 Creative Resistance

Book in a Month

A complete novel draft in 30 days: write forward, fix nothing, reach the end.

av Victoria Lynn Schmidt 2008 288 sidor

3.82

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📝 Novel Writing ✍️ Writing Craft ⚡ Fast Drafting 🏗️ Story Structure 🧱 Creative Resistance

The Book That Broke the World

av Mark Lawrence • 2024

A slave girl's book loops through time and fractures the library that keeps all worlds apart.

3.99

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🏛️ Infinite Library ⏳ Time Loop Paradox 💔 Revolution Gone Wrong 🗡️ Tragic Vengeance ⛓️ Oppressive Empire

The Book That Broke the World

A slave girl's book loops through time and fractures the library that keeps all worlds apart.

av Mark Lawrence 2024 384 sidor

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🏛️ Infinite Library ⏳ Time Loop Paradox 💔 Revolution Gone Wrong 🗡️ Tragic Vengeance ⛓️ Oppressive Empire

How to Write, Format, Publish and Promote your Book

av Derek Murphy • 2014

From choosing a profitable genre to earning reviews that count: the indie author's full playbook.

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116

📘 Indie Publishing 📣 Book Marketing 🏗️ Author Platform Building 🎨 Book Design 📚 Genre Writing

How to Write, Format, Publish and Promote your Book

From choosing a profitable genre to earning reviews that count: the indie author's full playbook.

av Derek Murphy 2014 214 sidor

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📘 Indie Publishing 📣 Book Marketing 🏗️ Author Platform Building 🎨 Book Design 📚 Genre Writing

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

av George Saunders • 2021

Seven Russian classics, read one line at a time, reveal the hidden machinery of great fiction.

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📖 Close Reading ✍️ Fiction Craft 🇷🇺 Russian Literature 🏗️ Narrative Structure 🔄 Revision Process

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

Seven Russian classics, read one line at a time, reveal the hidden machinery of great fiction.

av George Saunders 2021 403 sidor

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📖 Close Reading ✍️ Fiction Craft 🇷🇺 Russian Literature 🏗️ Narrative Structure 🔄 Revision Process

Good Book

av David Plotz • 2009

The Bible is stranger and more disturbing than you know. A skeptic read the whole thing.

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Good Book

The Bible is stranger and more disturbing than you know. A skeptic read the whole thing.

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99 Ways to Get Kids to Love Reading

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Free-choice reading beats assigned classics. Ninety-nine ways to make your home a reader's nest.

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99 Ways to Get Kids to Love Reading

Free-choice reading beats assigned classics. Ninety-nine ways to make your home a reader's nest.

av Mary Leonhardt 1997 124 sidor

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A life measured in books and fossils: a novelist confronts the new territory of old age.

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Dancing Fish and Ammonites

A life measured in books and fossils: a novelist confronts the new territory of old age.

av Penelope Lively 2013 240 sidor

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