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Contents:
Agents
Articles of interest to writers
Bibliography
Book Doctors & Private Editors
Book Publishers (Nonfiction and Self-Help)
Characteristics list
Contests to watch out for
Copyright
Definitions:
Short Story
Dialog tags
Flashback sample
Free Advice!
Free exercises
How Long Is a Novel?
Literary Agents
Literary Magazines & Journals
Names for characters
Notes on omniscience
Online magazines
Point of View
Printers: Recommended book producers (not publishers)
Proof Reader's Marks
Pros and Cons of Present Tense
Self-publishing
and Print-on-Demand
Self-Publishing:
One Writer's Story
Small Presses
Some Tricks of the Narrative Trade
Types of Discourse
Types of publishers
Writers on writing
Writing Romance
Home
Books & Writers for Study
A selection of Prose Narrative and writers
...recommended by my friends and students as exemplary and worthy of enjoyment and even study:
What I Loved Siri Hustredt "Innovative Book of Ideas"
The Time Traveller's Wife Audrey Nuffeneger "Brilliant handling of flash forward and flash back and point of view"The Glass Castle
The Case of the Dog in the Night "Excellent consistent voice"
Vernon God Little
The World According to Garp "John Irving"
King Kong on East 4th Street "Social Study Lower East Side in 80's"
100 Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Black Swan Green David Mitchell
Three Junes Julia Glass
The Secret History Donna Tratt
Cat's Eye Margaret Atwood
Possession A.s. Byatt
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle Murakai "Freedom to be imaginative"
Nine Stories J.D. Salinger "Simplicity in setting up complex characters"
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte "Just Perfect"
THe Eyre Affair Jasper Fford "This is jsut for fun i fyou love Jane Eure"
Thank you for Smoking Christopher Buckley
Special Topics in Calamity Physics Marisha Pessl "Clever literary murder mystery"
The Alchemist Paulo Cochlo
Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston
Push Sapphire
Elizabeth Strout Olive Kitteridge
War and Peace Tolstoy
Man in Full Tom Wolfe
Revolutionary Road Richard Yates
Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafron
Pulp Charles Bukowski
Inherent Vice Thomas Pynchon
Zafron The Angels Game, Shadow of the Wind
Muriel BertenzThe Elegance of the Hedgehod
The Witch from Portobello Paulo Coelho
World Without End Ken Follett
Portnyoy's Complaint Philip Roth
Oradell at Sea MSW
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton
Kite Runner Khalid Hoseini
Fear and Loathing
Junky
The Reader Bernard Schlou??
The Corrections Jonathan Franzen
The Savage Detectrives Roboeerto Bolano
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Michael Chabon
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defore
Beloved Toni Morrison
Iceberg Slim Fox??
Love Medicine Lousie Erdrich
Odd Girl Out ANne Bannon
Darkly Dreaming Dexter Jeff Lindsay
Body of Lies David Ignatious
The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
Northern Lights by Tim O Brien
More writers
Orson Scott Card
Barbara Kingsolver
Hemingway
Richard Morgan
Alice Munro
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