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Publisher
Konecky & Konecky
Pub. Date
[1995?]
Language
English
Description
Writings on the American Civil War selected from the Pulitzer Prize–winning presidential biography Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, with illustrations and maps. Drawn from Carl Sandburg's magisterial biography of the sixteenth US president, this volume focuses in on the War Between the States, bringing the author's trademark clarity and vivid style to this dark and dramatic period in the nation's history. Moving from Sumter to Shiloh, Antietam...
303) Technical writing
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Series
Publisher
Wiley Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Technical Writing For Dummies is a master class on how to build a career writing user manuals, e-learning, streaming, simulations, and more. It even zooms into the metaverse. Whether you're new to the field, a seasoned professional, or a technical personwho needs to write, this guide arms you with the skills you need to cash in on this flourishing world of technical writing. This isn't your average how-to. It's a compendium of innovative industry...
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Language
English
Description
An Indispensable Guide for All Writers in All Genres
The bad news: even really good manuscripts have weak spots that are enough to garner rejections from agents and publishers. The good news: most of these problems are easy to fix - once the writer sees and understands them. After several years of evaluating manuscripts, literary agent Elizabeth Kracht noticed that many submissions had similar problems, so she began to make a list of the pitfalls....
305) Dropping the Belt
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Language
English
Description
David Farrell had an idea for a story about a professional wrestler named Hunter.
Instead of writing it himself (like all writers do!) he decided to pay anonymous ghostwriters on the internet to cobble together the tale. What could go wrong? Only everything.
The results are hilarious, confusing and highly entertaining! This is the book that EVERY wrestling fan should read!
Hunter is a professional wrestler, who is moonlighting as a topless waiter.
He...
Author
Language
English
Description
Is there a gap between where you are and where you want to be in your writing life?
Maybe you have a drawer full of unfinished manuscripts or a story idea you're struggling to develop. Maybe you're frustrated with your writing progress or overwhelmed by creative doubt, burnout, or writer's block. Maybe you just can't seem to sit down and write.
No matter the roadblock standing between you and writing success, here's the good news: You're capable of...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Content Marketing Handbook helps entrepreneurs, marketers, and small business owners understand the true role of content within integrated multichannel marketing campaigns, avoid wasting time and money by giving away content with no ROI, and instead skillfully create content that builds trust, stimulate interest, and ultimately get more orders for what they are selling.
Readers will learn how to:
• Create A-level content that gets noticed,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author of Ella Enchanted and fairy-tale master Gail Carson Levine shares her secrets of great writing in this companion to the popular Writing Magic. Have you ever wanted to captivate readers with a great opening, create spectacular and fantastical creatures, make up an entire country, realize a dastardly villain, write an epic love story, or make your characters leap off the page? If you answered yes to any of these questions, Gail Carson...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
As the daughter of a traveling salesman in the Midwest, Jami Attenberg was drawn to a life on the road. Frustrated by quotidian jobs and hungry for inspiration and fresh experiences, her wanderlust led her across the country and eventually on travels around the globe. Through it all she grapples with questions of mortality, otherworldliness, and what we leave behind. It is during these adventures that she begins to reflect on the experiences of her...
310) How to Market a Book
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Do you want to sell more books and reach more readers?
Do you want to discover how to build an author career for the long-term as well as spike your book sales right now?
If you don't know much about marketing, don't worry. We all start with nothing.
I'm Joanna Penn and back in 2008, I had no book sales, no audience, no website, no social media, no podcast, no email list. No nothing.
Now I'm a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Are you ready to take the next step in your author journey?
Art for the sake of art is important. Writing for the love of it, or to create something beautiful on the page, is absolutely worthwhile and critical to expand the sum of human expression.
But I'm not here to talk about creativity or the craft of writing in this book. My aim is to take the result of your creativity into the realm of actually paying the bills.
To take you from being an author...
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First US edition.
Language
English
Description
"A beautiful, evocative, and sometimes provocative memoir of Australia's unique landscape, and how that singular place has shaped Tim Winton and his writing. From boyhood, Winton's relationship with the world around him-rock pools, sea caves, scrub, and swamp-has been as vital as any other connection. Camping in hidden inlets, walking in high rocky desert, diving in reefs, bobbing in the sea between surfing sets, Winton has felt the place seep into...
313) H is for Hockey
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Language
English
Description
The great game of hockey is introduced from A to Z using simple language for the youngest reader. Topics include fans, goalies, ice and jerseys. Detailed artwork brings the game's action to these sturdy board book pages.
Author
Language
English
Description
A Little Souvenir in Poetry is a sensible collection of original poems crafted to be lyrical, sensual, rhythmic, funny, and informative. The reader is easily moved by the author's work, which exemplifies a unique writing skill, and evokes various moods and emotions.
315) The Liminal Space
Author
Language
English
Description
In her first book of poems, Carrie Voigt Schonhoff captures the spirit of her native Wisconsin not only through poignant descriptions of landscape, but in how she reveals the emotional interiors of people and places. This work will resonate deeply with readers who have grown up in Wisconsin and give an insight of what it means to live, survive, prosper, and be a woman of the Midwest. Her characters are drawn from life, and her subjects, not only the...
Author
Language
English
Description
When you're stuck, but you don't know why… this book will help.
Throwing spaghetti at a wall. Sound familiar? That's what being stuck feels like sometimes. "Why is this happening and how do I fix it?" This is only one of the questions we ask ourselves when we feel stuck and frustrated and can't write.
The goal of The Author Stuck List is to help you create a customized tool that will aid in getting you regularly unstuck. This book will help you...
Author
Language
English
Description
Get ready to unlock a new revenue stream and take control of your writing career.
In today's turbulent publishing landscape, discover how you can tap into the fast-growing $10 million+ market of subscriptions to generate consistent, recurring income from your core group of readers.
This comprehensive guide is divided into three parts to help you ideate, market, and make money with your subscription as an author on platforms like Ream, Patreon, Ko-fi,...
318) Speak With No Fear: The Essential Guide to Public Speaking, Learn Strategies and Useful Tips on H
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Language
English
Description
Speak With No Fear: The Essential Guide to Public Speaking, Learn Strategies and Useful Tips on How You Can Present and Speak in Public With Confidence
Whether you need to talk in class or a team meeting, or maybe you need to present in front of a big audience, there really comes a time in your life when you need to speak in public from time to time. Some people are terrified of the idea because they feel they will just be humiliated in front of...
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Series
Language
English
Description
If you're sick and tired of feeling like you need to use sales-y, slimy, inauthentic strategies to market your business, then today may be your lucky day.
Yes, you ABSOLUTELY can sell more with love, and this book shows you how!
In Michele's first book, "Love-Based Copywriting Method," she explains why traditional marketing and copy sells with fear (which is why it feels so awful) and how you can sell and market your business with love instead.
In...
Author
Language
English
Description
The go-to bestselling guide to help young people navigate from a middle school book report to English Comp 101
In How to Read Literature Like a Professor: For Kids, New York Times bestselling author and professor Thomas C. Foster gives tweens the tools they need to become thoughtful readers.
With funny insights and a conversational style, he explains the way writers use symbol, metaphor, characterization, setting, plot, and other key techniques...
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