Reviews from Bookshelf books-on-writing

This is a great title for improving your writing at the sentence level and upping your craft.

This free e-book demystifies query-writing. Lukeman is very much in the tough love camp, but if you follow his advice, your query letter will be the better for it.

This book gave me many strategies for basing my writing in the development of rich characters. A go-to resource for the first draft of a novel.

So you've written, rewritten, and rewritten. You've workshopped your manuscript at a conference. You've joined a writer's group and gotten feedback. You've let your manuscript cool off and rewritten it again. Now you think you're ready to sell it. This book is a crash course on getting an agent and more. Don't start querying until you've read i

Beautiful, gentle advice for writing and living.

Forget Strunk and White. This is the absolute best grammar guide for elegant, readable prose. It's consummately readable itself since John Trimble practices what he preaches.