Author : Julie Beard
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 40,71 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780028631967
Takes the budding romance novelist through the entire process of developing story ideas, editing, finding publishers, and marketing.
Author : Alison Kent
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 16,52 MB
Release : 2006-09-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1440650756
Erotic romance reigns supreme as a big category of women's fictions; a billion-dollar business serviced by a new breed of uninhibited writer. This book is the necessary how-to for first-timers and a terrific guide for seasoned professionals as well, who are putting their racy (and lucrative) fantasies to paper. Now, for the first time, a veteran erotic romance author shows exactly what to do and how. The first book to guide writers to succeed in this mutli-million dollar genre. Explores how to set up a plot and write good, steamy sex scenes. From a best-selling experienced author. Includes resource section for research tools and further reading. Interviews with top editors in the field. Foreword by Kate Duffy, editorial director at Kensington Publishing and founding editor of the genre.
Author : Dr. Romance
Publisher : Alpha
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 34,41 MB
Release : 1999-12-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780028636573
No relationship is truly alive without romance, and Dr. Fagan (aka Dr. Romance) is prepped to teach her readers everything they need to know to keep the romance alive in their relationships. From romantic e-mails, faxes, and phone calls to writing love letters, watching romantic movies, or initiating the perfect romantic seduction, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Romance is bound to help every reader obtain romantic fulfillment.
Author : Cory Doctorow
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,59 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780028639185
Offers advice on how to get a science fiction novel or short story published, including tips on the basic elements of a work of science fiction to getting an agent, and signing a contract.
Author : Sheila Webster Boneham
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,8 MB
Release : 2002-08-01
Category : Pets
ISBN : 9780028642840
Un pirata informático irrumpe clandestinamente en el ordenador personal del Papa mientras, en Sevilla, una iglesia barroca se ve obligada a defenderse matando a quienes están dispuestos a demolerla. El Vaticano envía un agente, sacerdote, especializado en asuntos sucios: el astuto y apuesto padre Lorenzo Quart, quien en el curso de sus investigaciones verá quebrantarse sus convicciones y hasta peligrar sus votos de castidad ante una bella aristócrata andaluza que fascina a la sociedad Sevillana. Cerca merodean tres pintorescos malvados aspiran a mantener viva la copla española. Un banquero celoso y su secretario ludópata. Una septuagenaria que bebe Coca-Cola. La tarjeta postal de una mujer muerta un siglo atrás. Y el misterioso legado del capitán Xaloc, último corsario español, desaparecido frente a las costas de Cuba en 1898...
Author : Sheree Bykofsky
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 15,82 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781592575183
Times have changed for first-time authors. Publishers have consolidated. Editors are fewer. Literary agents are more selective. The result is that it's tougher than ever to get published. That's why new authors need The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Published, Fourth Edition. For years, new authors have depended on the wise inside advice and tricks from Sheree Bykofsky, successful New York literary agent, and author, and Jennifer Basye Sander, best-selling non-fiction author and literary consultant. And now, their book is even more packed with the latest information about the business of publishing and the practical advice any writer will need to achieve the all-important goal of "getting published."
Author : Harold D. Underdown
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 21,59 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781592571437
Provides practical and timely advice on writing different types of children's books, working with publishers, understanding the publishing process, the importance of illustrators, and building a career in the field of children's literature. Original. 12,000 first printing.
Author : Ron Benrey
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 27,65 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781592576814
They say there's nothing new under the sun, and the Christian fiction industry certainly didn't spring full blown with the advent of the Left Behindseries in 1996. Remember Christyby Catherine Marshall? Published in 1967, its inspiration was the life of Marshall's mother - and the Christy Award, presented annually since 1999 to recognize novelists and novels in several categories of Christian fiction, was named after it. What makes Christian fiction? There are several givens, despite the subgenres- the Christian worldview must be woven throughout both the book's plot and its character development. But must it put proselytizing before telling a good story? How much sex - if any! - is okay in a Christian romance? Is it all right to approach edgy subjects in a Christian mystery? Is it possible to seamlessly integrate a Christian message in a crackling good yarn? In The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Christian FictionRon Benrey - himself the author of successful Christian fiction - offers readers chapter and verse of writing Christian women's, romance, thrillers and mysteries, warfare, historical, biblical, speculative, and young adult fiction that deliver strong, inspirational messages and sell!
Author : Melissie Clemmons Rumizen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 24,91 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780028641775
Discusses management models and concepts, strategies for sharing knowledge, and ways to implement the concept within a company.
Author : Maryanne Fisher Ph.D.
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 27,53 MB
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1101478039
The Complete Idiot's Guide® to the Chemistry of Love shares the amazing new findings about the chemical reactions that create what people call "love." With the help of neuroscience, biochemistry, and physiology, readers can finally get some real insight into the affairs of the heart and the actual "laws of attraction." • Covers the role of pheromones, neurotransmitters, and hormones that occur during sexual attraction and lead to the euphoria of "love" • Includes information on how readers can use this knowledge to enhance their significant relationships, both romantic and nonromantic
