Have a Dream of Being An Author?
Frustrated with Banging Your Head Against the Publishing Wall?
(Let’s Face It…Why Else Would You Be Reading This?)
Don’t Worry. You Are By No Means Alone!
Success in publishing is equal parts skill, determination, knowledge, and pure, dumb luck. If you have the drive, and you have the skill, but you’re missing that little bit of insight into the industry, this book might just be the edge you’re looking for.
(For the luck…you’re on your own.)
Crack the cover to learn more about effective dialogue, the difference between the major publishers and small press, self-promoting, naming characters, avoiding procrastination… and so many other demons that haunt the aspiring author.
The Literary Handyman also includes a series of writing exercises tailored toward helping you to apply the information gained in the book.
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Contents
Craft
- On Being Inspired
- Put A Little Magic Into It
- Soul Food Feeding Your Passion
- Establishing Reality In Your Fantasy
- The Naming Of Names
- Populating Worlds
- So You Think You Know
- The Tricky Art Of Conversation
- Continuing The Conversation
- Wrapping Up The Conversation
- Spend Your Words Wisely
- Literary Detailing
- Coming To Your Senses
- The Short And The Long Of A Novel Idea
Writing Exercises
Business
- Always Another Day Away
- In Godhood Is Perfection Found
- Flexibility Is A Virtue
- Rejection And The Tender Hearted Youth
- A Little Friendly Abuse
- Anthologies
- On The Sizes Of Fishes And Ponds
- Something More Than A Thick Skin
- Promoting For The Beginner
- General Publishing Terms
Giới thiệu về tác giả
Award-winning author and editor Danielle Ackley-Mc Phail has worked both sides of the publishing industry for longer than she cares to admit. In 2014 she joined forces with husband Mike Mc Phail and friend Greg Schauer to form her own publishing house, e Spec Books.
Her published works include six novels, Yesterday’s Dreams, Tomorrow’s Memories, Today’s Promise, The Halfling’s Court, The Redcaps’ Queen, and Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn, written with Day Al-Mohamed. She is also the author of the solo collections A Legacy of Stars, Consigned to the Sea, Flash in the Can, and Transcendence, the non-fiction writers’ guide, The Literary Handyman, and is the senior editor of the Bad-Ass Faeries anthology series, Gaslight & Grimm, Dragon’s Lure, and In an Iron Cage. Her short stories are included in numerous other anthologies and collections.
She is a member of Broad Universe, a writer’s organization focusing on promoting the works of women authors in the speculative genres.
Danielle lives in New Jersey with husband and fellow writer, Mike Mc Phail and three extremely spoiled cats. She can be found on Facebook (Danielle Ackley-Mc Phail) and Twitter (DMc Phail).
To learn more about her work, visit www.sidhenadaire.com.
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