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Books

Author

 

Title

 

Bartlett, John

 

Familiar Quotations

 

 

Benedict, Elizabeth

 

The Joy of Writing Sex

 

 

Bickham, Jack

 

 

Setting: How to Create and Sustain a Sharp Sense of Time and Place in Your Fiction

 

 

Block, Lawrence

 

 

Writing the Novel From Plot to Print

 

 

Brooks, Terry

 

 

The Writer's Complete Fantasy Reference

 

Burke, Jan

 

Breaking and Entering: A Guide to Finding an Agent, Selling a Manuscript, and Other Mysteries of Publishing

 

 

Card, Orson Scott

 

 

Characters and Viewpoints

 

Chiarella, Tom

 

Writing Dialogue

 

 

Collier, Oscar & Leighton, Frances S.

 

How to Write and Sell Your First Novel

 

 

 

Cook, Marshall J.

 

 

Freeing Your Creativity

 

Corvasce, Mauro & Paflino, Joseph

 

 

Murder One: A Writers Guide to Homicide

 

Dibbell, Ansen

 

 

Plot

 

Edelstein, Linda

 

 

The Writers Guide to Character Traits

 

 

Fast, Julian

 

 

Subtext

 

Fiske, Robert Hartwell

 

 

Thesaurus of Alternatives to Worn-out Words and Phrases

 

 

Friedman, Bonnie

 

 

Writing Past Dark

 

Gallagher & Estrada

 

 

Writing Romances

 

Gerard, Phillip

 

Writing a Book That Makes a Difference

 

 

Gray, John

 

 

Mars and Venus Starting Over

 

Hood, Ann

 

 

Creating Character Emotion

 

Howard, Harold

 

 

Sacajawea

 

Jaegly, Peggy

 

 

Romantic Hearts, A Personal Logbook for Readers

 

 

Karl, Jean

 

 

How to Write and Sell Children's Picture Books

 

Kercheval, Jesse Lee

 

 

Building Fiction

 

Kernen, Robert

 

 

Building Better Plots

 

King, Stephen

 

 

On Writing

 

Kremer, John

 

 

1001 Ways to Market Your Book

 

Kress, Nancy

 

 

Dynamic Characters

 

Mann, Arthur

 

 

Immigrants in American Life

 

Marcuse, Irene

 

The Key to Handwriting Analysis

 

 

Noble, William

 

 

Conflict, Action & Suspense

 

Noble, William

 

 

Show, Don't Tell

 

Notestein, Wallace

 

The English People on the Eve of Colonization, 1603-1630

 

 

Novakovich, Jossip

 

 

Fiction Writer's Workshop

 

Nuwer, Hank

 

How to Write Like an Expert About Anything

 

 

Paludan, Eve

 

Romance Writers Pink Pages, 1996-1997

 

 

Perry, Susan

 

 

Writing in Flow, Keys to Enhanced Creativity

 

 

Pianka, Phyllis Taylor

 

 

How to Write Romances

 

Polking, Kirk

 

Beginning Writer's Answer Book

 

 

Provost, Gary

 

 

100 Ways to Improve Your Writing

 

Roth, Martin

 

 

The Fiction Writer's Silent Partner

 

Roth, Martin

 

The Writer's Complete Crime Reference Book

 

 

Swain, Dwight

 

 

Techniques of the Selling Writer

 

Writer's Digest Books

 

Writer's Market, 2001

 

 

Writer's Digest Books

 

 

Writer's Market, 2000

 

Writer's Digest Books

 

 

Writer's Market, 1999

 

Writer's Digest Books

 

 

Writer's Market, 1998

 

Writer's Digest Books

 

 

The Write Stuff

 

Zinser, William

 

 

On Writing Well

 

 

Webster's New World Thesaurus

 

 

 

Builders of the Ancient World

 

                                                                                                         

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Cassettes

 

 

Author

 

 

Title

 

Balogh, Mary

 

Once Upon a Time, The Sheer Joy of Playing God

 

 

Barlow, Linda

 

1/18/87, tapes 1 & 2 (3 is missing)

 

 

Baumgartner, Lisa

 

Characterization

 

 

Block, Nancy

 

 

Writing Humor

 

 

Boardman, Liz

 

Method Acting

 

 

Bulk, Nancy

 

 

Conflict and Motivation

 

Clayton, Gini

 

Alternative Healing

 

 

Crusie, Jennifer

 

River City Romance Writers, Memphis, TN workshop, 3/21/98

 

 

Crusie, Jennifer

 

 

NEW RWA Workshop

 

Delinsky, Barbara

 

Category Romance (tapes 1,2,3)

 

 

Delinsky, Barbara

 

The True Meaning of Romance

 

 

Ferguson, Jo Ann

 

How to Make Contacts and Network Successfully

 

 

Ferguson, Jo Ann

 

Revision and Rewriting

 

 

Grasso, Pat

 

Plotting

 

 

Hamilton, Betty

 

Research and Reference

 

 

Holmes, Dee

 

Writing the Breakout Book

 

 

Keeley, Patrick

 

 

Grammar and Other Problems

 

Kramer, Jolie

 

 

Plotting, part 1 & 2

 

 

La Montaigne, David

 

 

 

 

Macomber, Debbie

 

How To Keep Writing When the Writing Gets Tough

 

 

Merritt, Emma

 

 

Approach to Plotting

 

Meyer, Connie

 

Harlequin Editor

 

 

NECRWA Conference

 

 

Editor Panel: Beth de Guzman, Susan Shepard, Denise Little, Micki Nuding, Marcia Book Adirim

 

 

Reynolds, Lt. Steven

 

 

 

 

Riley, Mildred

 

Romance, Research, and Reality

 

 

RWA 1996, Dallas, TX

 

Spotlight on Zebra

 

 

Shannon, Kathy

 

Characterization

 

 

Staub, Wendi Corsi

 

 

RIRW, 1/7/95

 

Trainor, Joe

 

Conflict

 

 

Trainor, Joe

 

Shoot the Sheriff

 

 

Trainor, Joe

 

 

Young Adult Fiction, 1&2

 

 

Turner, Judy

 

Massage and the Writer

 

 

 

 

How to Improve the Genre:

1. Character/Dialogue

2. Plot

 

 

 

Coming Close Too Often: Turning Rejection Into Sales

 

 

 

 

Writing and Selling Your First Historical

 

 

 

 

What's Hot, What's Not:

1. Contemporaries

2. Historicals

 

 

 

 

Why We Bought or Rejected Your Manuscript

 

 

 

 

The Opening Session, RWA, 1985

 

 

 

 

Communicating Emotion

 

 

 

Sensuality and Romance

 

 

 

Proposals, Partials, And Queries

 

 

 

4th Annual Romantic Book Convention, 1985 (set of 11 tapes)

 

 

 

Bookseller's Panel

 

 

 

Romantic Suspense

 

 

 

First Chapters

 

 

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Videos

 

 

Lamotte, Anne

 

Bird by Bird

 


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