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Is there a book in you?
Children's W & A 2009
Writers & Artists 09
Weekend Novelist Redrafts
Writers' Market 2009

 

We invite author-reviewers to recommend their favourite books for writers.

Maureen Kincaid Speller, freelance editor, reviewer, writer and former librarian, is our first reviewer. Her views are her own and she is completely independent of WritersServices.

She has chosen: 

  1. The Weekend Novelist Redrafts the Novel by Robert J Ray New content indicator

  2. Children's Writers' and Artists' Yearbook updated for 2009New content indicator

  3. The Handbook of Creative Writing edited by Steven EarnshawNew content indicator

  4. The Art Of Punctuation by Noah Lukeman

  5. Writing fantasy and science fiction  by Lisa Tuttle

  6. Solutions for Novelists by Sol Stein

  7. Mortification: Writers’ stories of their public shame edited by Robin Robertson

  8. How to Write a Blockbuster and make £millions by Sarah Harrison, 

  9. Research for Writers 7th Edition by Ann Hoffmann, 

  10. Writing a Novel by John Braine

  11. Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers by Harold Evans.

  12. Fiction Writer’s Workshop by Josip Novakovich

  13. How to Make Money from Freelance Writing by Andrew Crofts

  14. Story: Substance, structure, style and the principles of screenwriting by Robert McKee
  15. Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors edited by R M Ritter
  16. The Oxford Guide to Style edited by R M Ritter
  17. The Creative Writing Coursebook by Julia Bell and Paul Magrstd
  18. The Forest for the Trees by Betsy Lerner
  19. How to Write a Damned Good Novel by James L Frey
  20. Solutions for Writers by Sol Stein
  21. The Joy of Writing Sex by Elizabeth Benedict
  22. The Writer’s Handbook Guide to Writing for Stage and Screen
     edited by Barry Turner
  23. The Writer's Handbook Guide to Crime Writing edited by Barry Turner
  24. Screenwriting by Raymond Frensham
  25. The Truth about Writing by Michael Allen

Chas Jones has reviewed:

  1. The Right Way to Write, Publish and Sell Your Book: Your Guide to successful authorship by Patricia Fry

Chris Holifield has reviewed:

  1. Writers’ Market UK and Ireland 2010 New content indicator
  2. The Writer's HandbookNew content indicator
  3. The Writers' and Artists' Yearbook 2009 New content indicator
  4. 101 Ways to Make Poems SellNew content indicator
  5. Is there a book in you? by Alison Baverstock
  6. Quotations for our Time compiled by Dr Laurence Peter
  7. Inside Book Publishing     by Giles Clark
  8. How to Market Books by Alison Baverstock
  9. Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
  10. Research for Writers 7th Edition by Ann Hoffman
     

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