Readers Preference Reviews

If you have ever thought about ghostwriting but really don't understand the industry or what the opportunities are then you will want to take a look at this book. Author Eva Shaw has been a ghostwriter for almost thirty years. In "Ghost-Writing for Fun & Profit" she shares the benefits of her experiences and offers practical tips and advice for anyone exploring the possibility of entering this field.

"The Christian Writer's Manual of Style" provides the most exhaustive coverage of the special writing problems in the area of Christian publications that I have ever seen. This is easily the best book available on the subject of Christian writing style.

When they learn to write in school most students generally learn how to write pieces that are technically correct but totally void of any ability to draw the reader into the subject. Instead when children learn to write they should learn to do it as an art form that effectively communicates with others and brings them into the writing. Developing that ability to write as an art form instead of using static formulas is what this book is about. To make it easier to incorporate into a school environment the book is in the form of a curriculum piece for teachers.

Whether just an article or an entire novel most of us need to edit our work to give it that professional finish. This book is not a grammar book with all those rules on how to make your work syntactically correct. Instead it takes a larger view and supplies the basics of writing well. For example the “ground rules” include checking to make sure the story is organized well and and checking that paragraphs have a topic sentence that the rest of the paragraph relates to.

Although it is a follow-up companion to his original book The Well-Fed Writer, this book contains almost entirely new content. If you want to start earning a real living writing then one of the easiest paths is through copywriting. That is the focus of the earlier book and this one. In this book author Peter Bowerman takes a lot of the questions and success stories that were a result of his first book and provides the answers as well as how they did it. Probably the most important part of this work is the detailed information on marketing yourself as a copywriter.

Technical writing is it's own special world. Using standard writing techniques almost ensures that readers will have a difficult time understanding technical material. This book comes to the rescue of the technical writer by detailing the proper techniques and the things you need to take into consideration when writing. For example, nobody would argue that a technical book written for people with a doctorate degree should be very different from a technical manual written for the complete novice.

This is a collection of information from interviews with authors, editors, agents and booksellers who were involved in the making of a bestseller. It is organized into three distinct sections – The Bestseller, Publishing, and The Author. Part one includes an examination of what makes a book become a bestseller, the effect of reviews, and how the constant change readers’ taste affects the sale of a book.

This is an excellent reference guide for the average person as well as the professional writer or editor. The various common errors are organized into logical groupings including lists of commonly confused words and the differences between them, commonly misused words and how they should be used, commonly confused expressions such as aural and oral or breach and breech. The author also includes common grammar, spelling, and style issues such as anyways and anyway or commas, capitalization, and accent marks.

If you are self-publishing your book and want access to one of the better guides in the industry they you will be interested in this book. Author Peter Bowerman walks the reader through the process of publishing your book, creating demand, and filling that demand. In addition to the route that he chose for publishing his books he shares the results of his research into the various options and the pros and cons of each.