GCWA Online Catalog of Books for Writers

The book list links Books for Writers to online book stores and the local Lee County Library, when available. Memebers are invited to add their favorites to the book list.

 

How-to Books for Writers - Fiction

How to Write a Damn Good Thriller, by James Frey
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

How to Grow a Novel, by Sol Stein
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

Writing the Natual Way, by Gabriele Lusser Rico
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

On Writing, by Steven King
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

Writing the Breakout Novel, by Donald Maass
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

Writing Down the Bones, by Natalie Goldberg
(Not available at library)
Amazon - Barnes & Noble

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How-to Books for Writers - Non-Fiction

Writing Lives, by Leon Edel, 1987
(Not available at Library)
Amazon - Barnes & Noble

Old friend from far away : the practice of writing memoir by Natalie Goldberg
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

Biographer's Craft by Milton Lomask
(Not available at Library)
Amazon - Barnes & Noble

On Writing Well by William Zinsser
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

A Writer's Guide to Book Publishing by Richard Balkin
(Not available at Library)
Amazon - Barnes & Noble

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How-to Books for Writers - Poetry

Writing Poems by Michelle Boisseau, Christine Wallace, Randall Mann
(Not available at Library)
Amazon - Barnes & Noble

Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Poetry by Nikki Moustaki 
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

Make a Living as a Poet by Gary Mex Glazner
(Not available at Library )
Amazon - Barnes & Noble

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Reference Books for Writers - Style, Grammar, etc.

APA Publication Manual by American Psychological Association
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

The Careful Writer by Theodore M. Bernstein
(Not available at Library)
Amazon - Barnes & Noble

The Chicago Manual of Style, University of Chicago Press
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation by Lynne Truss.
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

The Elements of Style, by William Strunk Jr. and E.B.White
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

Funk & Wagnall's Standard Handbook of Synonyms, Antonyms & Prepositions
Lee County Library - Amazon

A Grammar of Present-Day English; R.W. Pence
(not available at library)
Amazon - Barnes & Noble

The Harper Dictionary of Foreign Terms
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

The Hollywood standard : the complete and authoritative guide to script format and style, by Christopher Riley
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

Line by line : how to edit your own writing by Cook, Claire Kehrwald
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

The new well-tempered sentence : a punctuation handbook for the innocent, the eager, and the doomed by Karen Elizabeth Gordon.
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

Prentice Hall Reference Guide
(not available at library)
Amazon - Barnes & Noble

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

Roget's International Thesaurus
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

The Writer's Legal Companion by Brad Bunnin & Peter Beren
(Not available at Library)
Amazon - Barnes & Noble

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Reference Books for Writers - Publishing & Marketing

• Literary Marketplace LMP - Directory of the American Book Publishing Industry
  Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble - infotoday
   
• How to Write Irresistible Query Letters by Lisa Collier Cool
  Amazon - Barnes & Noble
  

Reference Books for Writers - Children's Books

• A Basic Guide to Writing, Selling, and Promoting Children's Books  by Betsy B. Lee
  (not available at library)
  Amazon - Barnes & Noble
  

• The Children's Writer's Reference by Eric Suben, Berthe Amoss
  Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble
   
• Children's Writer's Word Book by Alijandra Mogilner
  Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble
   
• The Business of Writing for Children: by Aaron Shepard (not available at library)
  Amazon - Barnes & Noble
   

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Reference Books for Writers - Freelancing

The ASJA Guide to Freelance Writing, edited by Timothy Harper.  Griffin
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

The Freelance Success Book:  Insider Secrets for Selling Every Word You Write
by David Taylor.  Peak Writing Press. (not available at library)
Amazon - Barnes & Noble

Starting Your Career as a Freelance Writer by Moira Allen.  Allworth Press.
(not available at library)
Amazon - Barnes & Noble

The Well-Fed Writer: Financial Self-Sufficiency as a Freelance Writer in Six
Months or Less by Peter Bowerman, Fanove Publishing    
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

Writing Freelance....Christine Adamec (not available at library)
Amazon - Barnes & Noble
 

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Reference Books for Writers - Romance

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Your Romance Published by Julie Beard
Alpha Books, (January, 2000)
(not available at library)
Amazon - Barnes & Noble
 
How to Write a Romance for the New Market and Get Published by Kathryn Falk
Genesis Press Inc., (September, 1999)
(not available at library)
Amazon - Barnes & Noble
 
Writing Romantic Fiction by Daphne Claire and Robyn Donald
A&C Black, (September, 1999)
(not available at library)
Amazon - Barnes & Noble
 
You Can Write a Romance by Rita Clay Estrada
Writers Digest Books, (August, 1999)
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble
 
How to Write Romances by Phyllis Taylor Pianka
Lee County Library - Amazon
 
Writing a Romantic Novel; And Getting Published by Donna Baker
(not available at library)
Amazon - Barnes & Noble
 
Writing Romances; A Handbook by the Romance Writers of America by Rita Gallagher, Rita Clay Estrada
(not available at library)
Amazon - Barnes & Noble
 
Writing Romance by Vanessa Grant
(not available at library)
Amazon - Barnes & Noble
 
Romance Writer's Sourcebook; Where to Sell Your Manuscripts by David Borcherding, 1996

Amazon - Barnes & Noble
 
The Art of Romance Writing : How to Create, Write and Sell Your Contemporary Romance Novel
by Valerie Parv (not available at library)
Amazon - Barnes & Noble

How to Write a Romance and Get It Published by Kathryn Falk, 1983-84
(not available at library)
Amazon - Barnes & Noble

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RECOMMENDED READING: The Classics

Death in Venice ...Thomas Mann
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

The Kiss ....Anton Chekhov
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

Snows of Kilimanjaro...Hemingway
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

Babylon Revisited....F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

That Evening Sun.....William Faulkner
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

A Perfect Day For Banana Fish....J. D. Salinger
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

Big Blonde.....Dorothy Parker
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

Paul's Case....Willa Cather
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

The Rocking Horse Winner....D.H. Lawrence
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

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RECCOMENDED READING: Short Stories

What Ails the Short Story, an essay by Stephen King in the NY Times, 2007.

To win contests or gain publication, it is necessary to understand the current state of the genre.  Three editors of notable publications offered their choices for 2002.

Close Range:  Wyoming Stories, by E. Annie Proulx
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

Perfect Recall , by Ann Beattie
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

Rope Burns:  Stories from the Corner, by F.X. Toole
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

The Angel On The Roof, by Russell Banks
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, by Nathan Englander
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

Who's Irish? by Gish Jen
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing, by Melissa Bank
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

Use Me, by Elissa Schappell
(Not available at the Library)
Amazon - Barnes & Noble

Birds of America, by Lorrie Moore
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

Girl With Curious Hair, by David Foster Wallace
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

Faithless:  Tales of Transgression, by Joyce Carol Oates
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, by Aimee Bender
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd, by Ana Menendez
Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

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Miscellaneous

• Beyond the Bookstore: How to Sell More Books Profitably to Non-Bookstore Markets by Brian Jud
  Amazon - Barnes & Noble

• Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
  Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble

• William Fox, Sol M. Wurtzel and the Early Fox Film Corporation, Edited by Lillian Wurtzel Semenov and Carla
  Winter, reviewed by Jenna Glatzer. A nonfiction work that reads like hilarious fiction. (not available at library)
  Amazon - Barnes & Noble

• Stein on Writing...Sol Stein
  Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble
  
  
• The Writer's Journey...Christopher Vogler (not available at library)
  Amazon - Barnes & Noble
  
  
• The Courage to Write....Ralph Keyes
  Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble
  
  
• The Quotable Writer....William A. Gordon (not available at library)
  Amazon - Barnes & Noble
   
• Successful Syndication....Michael Sedge (not available at library)
  Amazon - Barnes & Noble
   
• Here's My Card....Bob Popyk (not available at library)
  Amazon - Barnes & Noble
   
• Poor Richard's Web Site...Peter Kent
  Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble
   
• You Can Write A Column...Monica McCabe Cardoza
  Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble
   
• The Writer's Idea Book...Jack Heffron
  Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble
   
• Home-Based Businesses For Dummies...Paul Edwards
  Lee County Library - Amazon - Barnes & Noble
   
• Words Into Type, 3rd edition; Marjorie E. Skillin (not available at library)
  Amazon - Barnes & Noble
   
• The Writer's Art, James Kilpatrick (not available at library)
  Amazon - Barnes & Noble
   

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Writers Digest Books

http://www.writersdigestshop.com/  
Many books available on all aspects of writing.

• 2010 Writer's Market
  More than 3500 market listings for writers.
  Older versions can be checked out of the library, but the 2010 edition can only be used in house.
  Amazon - Barnes & Noble
   
• The Writers Guide to Queries, Pitches and Proposals, by Moira Allen
  puts all the "pitch" information you need in one handy reference.
   
• The Writer's and Photographer's Guide to Global Markets by  Michael Sedge, 1998
  Any freelance writer who dreams of selling an article a dozen times to far-flung places all over the planet needs this intelligent reference book.
  Barnes & Noble
   
  
• Get Organized, Get Published!: 225 Ways to Make Time for Success by Don Aslett and Carol Cartaino  
   
• Freelance Writing for Magazines and Newspapers by Marcia Yudkin
   
• The Perfect Pitch by Ken Rotcop, reviewed by Jamie Nash
  (screenwriting) How to pitch your screenplay.
   
• Freedom To Freelance by Rusty Fischer
  How to become a freelance writer.
  

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