fiction

Examines prose writing, and focuses on writing strong characters, and discusses heroes, villians, minor characters, and other related topics; and includes example excerpts from well known authors including Jane Austen.

A New World Order. A New Global Threat. Beyond the Point of No Return. #5 in series.

Discusses the roots of modern fiction, approaches to writing, and the development of form and style.

Collects literary critic Harold Bloom's introductions on seventy-seven important novelists, arranged chronologically from Miguel de Cervantes to Amy Tan, from volumes in his Modern Critical Views and Modern Critical Interpretations series.

A collection of paragraphs submitted as entries in the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, an international competition that invites entrants to compose bad opening sentences to imaginary novels.

"Divides the creative writing process into five steps, from inspiration to publishable story, and includes in-depth treatment of the mystery fiction genre with writing prompts"--Provided by publisher.

Sixteen-year-old Jody Flook is known for doing stupid things, but when she accidentally kidnaps her idol, rock star Jackson Gaitlin, at his only concert in the entire United Kingdom, and he does not want to leave her garage, she is in real trouble.

Using examples from five novels and five short stories, young adult writer M. E. Kerr offers insights into ways writers can get ideas and create successful stories.

Based on a true story, Tania is a young sniper recruited by the Soviet Union to seek out and assassinate German officers. He is chosen to lead a handpicked unit to seize the commander of the invading army during the Battle of Stalingrad in the Second World War.

Alva, not quite fifteen, is content with the strict rules that define her life in Pineridge, the walled community where she lives with her father, his seven wives, and her twenty-nine siblings until she is caught giving her long-time crush an innocent first kiss and forced to marry a violent, fifty-year-old man.