One of the most notable things I realized while reading “Pep Talks, Warnings & Screeds: Indispensable wisdom and cautionary advice for writers” is that its author, George Singleton, must have a great deal of ‘STUFF’ on his desk. I wonder how he manages to write between his can of WD-40* (a reminder that writing daily [...]

Title: The Forward Book of Poetry
Author: Various Artists
Publisher: Faber and Faber
ISBN 10: Various Editions
“The Forward Book of Poetry” is one of the most impressive and remarkable poetry collections currently being published. Presenting poets who are both well known and new to the scene, the book is a shining example of all that is great about [...]

Title: The Complete Idiot’s Guide To Starting Your Own Business
Author: Edward Paulson and Marcia Layton
Publisher: Alpha Books
ISBN 10: 1592575846
If you’re thinking about starting a business, there’s no shortage of books available on the subject. You can find how-to business guides that range from bare business basics all the way to MBA level in-depth business guides.
Edward [...]

Title: How You Leave Them Feeling
Author: Jesse Ferrell
Publisher: JessTalk, hardback, 254 pages
ISBN 10: 0977881008
“Simply put, how you leave other people feeling and how people perceive you have a profound effect on the quality of your life,” declares the jacket blurb on Jesse Ferrell’s “How You Leave Them Feeling“. Ferrell encourages readers to adopt his approach [...]

I’d like to give my sincere thanks to Katie-Anne Gustafsson for this Guest Review. I haven’t had a chance to read Noah Lukeman’s book, “The Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life” but it definitely sounds like this book and Noah’s first, “The First Five Pages” are necessary additions to my writer’s shelf. [...]

Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations is a social impact assessment of the power of emergent behavior – people self-organizing via the power of the new social networks – and how this changes things.
I have to admit that I’ve avoided Clay Shirky until now – the hype in the “2.0″ [...]

 
I’m not particularly into scriptwriting, but when someone recommended that I read Save The Cat by Blake Snyder, I was intrigued enough to comply. This is a book written in a personal and engaging style by a man who has a couple of million dollar script sales under his belt, as well as a few [...]

This Book Review is written by Lillian Brummet. I’d love to feature more book reviews from readers. If you’ve read a book about writing and would like to share your book review please send me an email.
Pumping Your Muse is a 136-page non-fiction, self-help writer’s manual that is conveniently available in both electronic and print [...]

Title: The 4 – Hour Work Week
Author: Timothy Ferriss
Category: Business and Investing

I want to offer my thanks to Danny for sharing this brilliant review of The 4-Hour Workweek. I have this book on my own shelf but I haven’t had a chance to read it yet (along with about three dozen other brilliant books I’ve [...]

Title: Book Proposals that $ell
Author: W. Terry Whalin
Publisher: Write Now Publications, 2005
ISBN: 1932124650
Paperback, 184 pages.

Violet Nesdoly, a poet, Christian and Children’s Author said, “The world of words has fascinated me for as long as I can remember. As a kid, whenever my Mom needed me for a job, it was a sure thing she’d find [...]