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Book Synopsis LEARN HOW TO FIND A PUBLISHER AND GET YOUR BOOK PUBLISHED.Do you have a completed manuscript ready for submission?Are you looking to successfully publish or self-publish your work?Do you have the level of understanding of the publishing industry?Whether you want to take a traditional route into print or want to digitally self-publish, this book will give you the advice you need on everything from submitting manuscripts to garnering reviews and promoting your work. It covers everything from polishing a final draft to managing your finances, and is also full of case studies, advice and tips from industry insiders from both traditional publishing and successful self-publishing backgrounds.ABOUT THE SERIESThe Teach Yourself Creative Writing series helps aspiring authors tell their story. Covering a range of genres from science fiction and romantic novels, to illustrated children''s books and comedy,

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Book SynopsisStephanie Vanderslice is Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the Arkansas Writer's MFA Workshop at the University of Central Arkansas, USA and is the Chairperson of the Creative Writing Studies Organization. Her column, The Geek's Guide to the Writing Life appears regularly in the Huffington Post. She publishes fiction, nonfiction and creative writing criticism including Can It Really Be Taught?: Resisting Lore in Creative Writing Pedagogy, Teaching Creative Writing to Undergraduates: A Guide and Sourcebook and Rethinking Creative WritingRebecca Manery teaches creative and academic writing at Ball State University, USA. A published poet and non-fiction writer she is co-author (with Tonya Perry) of Supporting Students in a Time of Common Core Standards (6-8) (2011).Table of ContentsPart 1: Can It Really Be Taught? Influential Essays Revisited by Their Authors Introduction. Lore Past, Present, and Future: The Tenth Anniversary of Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught? (Stephanie Vanderslice, University of Central Arkansas, USA) 1. (Re)Figuring the Future: Lore, Creative Writing Studies, and Institutional Histories (Tim Mayers, Millersville University, USA) 2. Against Reading, 2: Or, Writing Starts Here Reconsidered (Katherine Haake, California State University Northridge, USA) 3. Revisiting Charming Tyrants and Faceless Facilitators: The Lore of Teaching Identities in Creative Writing (Ann Cain, Indiana University Purdue, Fort Wayne, USA) 4. "It's such a good feeling": Self-Esteem, the Growth Mindset, and Creative Writing (Anna Leahy, Chapman University, USA) 5. Finding Truth in the Gaps: A Hybrid Text (Patrick Bizzaro, Indiana University, USA) 6. Box Office Poison: The Influence of Writers in Films on Writers (in Graduate Programs) (Wendy Bishop, formerly of Florida State University, USA and Stephen Armstrong, Dixie State University St. George, USA) Part 2: The Future of Creative Writing Lore: New Voices, New Challenges 7. The Traces of Certain Collisions: Contemporary Writing and Old Tropes (Jen Webb, University of Canberra, Australia) 8. Lore 2.0: Creative Writing as History (Phil Sandick, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) 9. "We Don't Need No Creative Writing Here": Black Cultural Capital, Social (In)Justice, and the Devaluing of Creativity in Higher Education (Tonya Hegemin, Medgar Evers College, City University of New York, USA) 10. Genre Fiction, and Games, and Fan Fiction! Oh My!: Competing Realities in Creative Writing Classrooms (Trent Hergenrader, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA) 11. Disability Culture and Creative Writing Pedagogies: When Having Fun Together is Radical Practice (Petra Kuppers, University of Michigan, USA) 12. Polemics Against Polemics: Reconsidering Didacticism in Creative Writing (Janelle Adsit, Humboldt State University, USA) 13. "It's My Story and I'll Revise if I Want To": Rethinking Authorship Through Collaborative Workshop Practices (Joseph Rein, University of Wisconsin, River Falls, USA) 14. Toward a Digital Historiography of Creative Writing Programs in Our Millennium (Ben Ristow, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA) 15. Investigating Creative Writing: Challenging Obstacles to Empirical Research (Greg Light, Northwestern University, USA) 16. Creative Writing with Godzilla: Welcoming the Monster to your Creative Writing Classroom (Graeme Harper, Oakland University, USA) 17. Myths, Mirrors, and Metaphors: The Education of the Creative Writing Teacher (Rebecca Manery, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, USA) Index

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Book SynopsisBobbie Faulkner spent thirty-eight years teaching grades K-6 in public schools in Ohio, Kentucky, and Arizona. She is a certified as a Middle Childhood Generalist and has renewed her certification. She has supported candidates in all certifications areas for almost two decades, has mentored candidates in her home district and state as well as in university and regional cohorts. She offers webinars to districts and cohorts on National Board topics.

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Book SynopsisBen Yagoda''s How to Not Write Bad illustrates how we can all write better, more clearly, and for a wider readership.He offers advice on what he calls "not-writing-badly," which consists of the ability, first, to craft sentences that are correct in terms of spelling, diction (word choice), punctuation, and grammar, and that also display clarity, precision, and grace. Then he focuses on crafting whole paragraphs—with attention to cadence, consistency of tone, sentence transitions, and paragraph length.In a fun, comprehensive guide, Yagoda lays out the simple steps we can all take to make our writing more effective, more interesting—and just plain better.

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Book SynopsisIn Breaking Ground on Your Memoir, Linda Joy Myers (President of the National Association of Memoir Writers) and Brooke Warner (Publisher of She Writes Press) present from the ground up—from basic to advanced—the craft and skills memoirists can draw upon to write a powerful and moving story, as well as inspiration to write, finish, and polish their own story. Full of rich insights and practical advice and strategies, Breaking Ground on Your Memoir offers all the tools writers need to write a powerful, publishable memoir. In this book you will discover: • how to get focused on what your memoir is about—your themes. • how to build the structure of your story. • techniques to make your memoir come alive. • the secrets of craft: how to write a great scene, colorful and memorable descriptions, narration, and flashback. • how to connect with your reader using through-threads and takeaway so they’ll keep turning the pages, and learn something about their own lives by reading your book. Visit the authors online at WriteYourMemoirInSixMonths.com.

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Book SynopsisThere are more outlets than ever for writers to spread their messages and share their work, more opportunities to speak out and be seen. Writers expose themselves freely and willingly in a way that would have been unfathomable fifty years ago, and more people than ever are writing and publishing. Men and women are writing with equal fervor and commitment to their message and craft. As a result, it’s easy to assume, or hope, that the gendered playing field is a thing of the past, too. Unfortunately for women writers, it’s not. Knowing what we’re up against and how to fight back is the heart and soul of Write On, Sisters! Inside these pages, Brooke Warner draws upon research, anecdotes, and her personal experiences from twenty years in the book publishing industry to show how women’s writing is discounted or less valued than men’s writing, then provides support to overcome these challenges. This book also shines light on how women writers face not only ever-present historical and social challenges but also their own self-limiting beliefs. Write On, Sisters! is for every woman writer ready to be done with all that, and who’s ready for the next revolution.Table of ContentsContents Introduction: This Is Our Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Part I Chapter 1: She Wrote, She Writes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Chapter 2: Writing Under the Influence of Gender . . . . . . 39 Chapter 3: A Woman Must Have Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Chapter 4: Psychological Warfare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Part II Chapter 5: Daredevil You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Chapter 6: Women-Only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Chapter 7: Sisterhoods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Chapter 8: Amplify . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

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