Books on Writing by the Members of Book View Café

           

Practical Meerkat’s 52 Bits of Useful Info for Young (and Old) Writers

Writing Advice

Laura Anne Gilman

Writing is a craft. Publishing is a business. Today’s world requires you to understand both.

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Writing Horses

The Fine Art of Getting It Right

Judith Tarr

How far can a horse travel in a day? What does a horse eat? When is a brown horse really a sorrel (or a bay, or a dun)? What do tack and withers and canter mean?

Brewing Fine Fiction

Advice for writers from the authors at Book View Café

edited by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff and Pati Nagle

Book View Café’s members include international bestselling authors and winners of the National Book Award, the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and many others. Most have sold multiple novels to major publishers. Many have taught writing at workshops around the world. Bohnhoff and Nagle gather the knowledge of these professional authors  into a volume that will help both new and experienced writers cope with the creative challenges and the nuts-and-bolts business issues of a career in writing fiction.

The authors include Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, Amy Sterling Casil, Brenda W. Clough, Lori Devoti, Chris Dolley, Laura Anne Gilman, Sue Lange, Ursula K. Le Guin, Vonda N. McIntyre, Nancy Jane Moore, Pati Nagle, Steven Harper Piziks, Irene Radford, Patricia Rice, Madeleine E. Robins, Deborah J. Ross, Sherwood Smith, Jennifer Stevenson, Judith Tarr, Gerald M. Weinberg, Sarah Zettel.

All proceeds go to support the Book View Café website. Your purchase of Brewing Fine Fiction includes a free copy of Ways to Trash Your Writing Career.

Ways to Trash Your Writing Career

Edited by Phyllis Irene Radford

With a dash of humor, Book View Café presents a review of the surest and fastest ways to bring your writing career to a screeching halt.

Learn how to Never Submit, Cop a ’Tude, Ignore Deadlines, Gossip, and much more!

Buy Brewing Fine Fiction and get a free copy of Ways to Trash Your Writing Career.