Who’s afraid of point of view? Nearly every writer who sets pen to paper! The author, Professor of English at Central State University in Ohio, and author of Only With a Heart and The Kommandant’s Mistress, winner of the Janet Kafka... Read More

Mark Twain once said, “Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.” The essays in this collection help the writer of creative nonfiction know how to use the facts and effectively infuse a piece with the... Read More

“What one person finds funny another person finds deranged,” states Robin Hemley, whose essay, “Relaxing the Rules of Reason,” opens this collection of works by humor writers, designed to help authors incorporate wit into all... Read More

The authors have distilled the essence of the workshops they’ve led for many years, shaping the core material into a book focused on the fundamentals of writing fiction and memoir, to help aspiring authors enrich their own writing. The... Read More

“Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language,“ writes Aldo Leopold in A Sand County Almanac (1948). The... Read More

Vivacious and continuously upbeat, the author leads the listener through one of her successful writing workshops. DiMaggio has written many hours of television and feature films, and she also adapts books for film and writes made-for-TV... Read More

“The writer has to know what is in every nook and cranny of the story,” Theodore Sturgeon once said. “You don’t have to write it all down, but if you know what’s there, it’ll show.” Gerrold delves into the nooks and... Read More

A complex man whose stories reflected distinct views of humanity, the world, the supernatural, and the universe (some of which are alarmingly close to coming true), Philip K. Dick was also a fascinating interview, as these transcriptions... Read More