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Emma, A Longman Cultural Edition Jane Austen, Frances Ferguson From Longman's Cultural Editions series, Emma, edited by Frances Ferguson, presents Jane Austen's novel with illuminations from various contexts, ranging from first reviews, to the entertainments of riddles and charades, the vogue of gothic fiction, the plight of governesses that had their situations compared to slavery, and the economy of English estates. Handsomely produced and affordably priced, the Longman Cultural Editions series presents classic works in provocative and illuminating contexts-cultural, critical, and literary. Each Cultural Edition consists of the complete text of an important literary work, reliably edited, headed by an inviting introduction, and supplemented by helpful annotations; a table of dates to track its composition, publication, and public reception in relation to biographical, cultural and historical events; and a guide for further inquiry and study. The following Longman Cultural Editions are available now: Beowulf, Hamlet (2nd edition), Othello, Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, Hard Times, Northanger Abbey, King Lear, andThe Merchant of Venice. Titles available for fall include: Wollstonecraft, Emma, andHenry IV, Parts 1 & 2.One Cultural Edition can be packaged FREE with any single or combination of volumes of The Longman Anthology of British Literature by Damrosch et al, or at a discount with any other Longman textbook. |
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Let's Get Digital: How To Self-Publish, And Why You Should David Gaughran Based on Amazon Reader Reviews:
- TOP RATED IN "PUBLISHING & BOOKS"
- TOP RATED IN "AUTHORSHIP" - TOP RATED IN "WRITING REFERENCE"
"You won't make any money from self-publishing."
MYTH!
The internet has revolutionized every business it has come into contact with, and publishing is no different. For the first time, these changes are handing power back to the writer. It's up to YOU if you want to profit from them. Let's Get Digital: How To Self-Publish, And Why You Should.This guide contains over 60,000 words of essays, articles, and how-to guides, as well as contributions from 33 bestselling indie authors including J Carson Black, Bob Mayer, Victorine Lieske, Mark Edwards, and many more. It covers everything from how the disruptive power of the internet has changed the publishing business forever to the opportunities this has created for writers. It gives you practical advice on editing, cover design, formatting, and pricing. And it reveals marketing tips from blogging and social networking right through to competitions, discounts, reviews, and giveaways. If you are considering self-publishing, if you need to breathe life into your flagging sales, or if you want to understand why it's a great time to be a writer, Let's Get Digital: How To Self-Publish, And Why You Should will explain it all.
Praise for Let's Get Digital:
"Let's Get Digital is a must read for anyone considering self-publishing." -- JA Konrath, bestselling author of Trapped, Origin, and Whiskey Sour. "Even with my background as an indie writer, I picked up several valuable tips...this is simply the best book about the ebook revolution that I have read." -- Michael Wallace, bestselling author of the Righteous series.
"Credible and comprehensive. I'd recommend it to any writer who is considering self-publishing or anyone interested in the current state of publishing." -- Big Al's Books and Pals - 5 stars.
"It should be THE starting point for anyone considering self-publishing today. This book is a Pixel Pick, and should be considered required reading for any Indie author." -- Pixel of Ink.
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How to Speak and Write Correctly: Joseph Devlin's Classic Text Joseph Devlin The classic text on how to speak and write English 'correctly.' *** "In the preparation of this little work the writer has kept one end in view, viz.: To make it serviceable for those for whom it is intended, that is, for those who have neither the time nor the opportunity, the learning nor the inclination, to peruse elaborate and abstruse treatises on Rhetoric, Grammar, and Composition. To them such works are as gold enclosed in chests of steel and locked beyond power of opening. This book has no pretension about it whatever,-it is neither a Manual of Rhetoric, expatiating on the dogmas of style, nor a Grammar full of arbitrary rules and exceptions. It is merely an effort to help ordinary, everyday people to express themselves in ordinary, everyday language, in a proper manner." |
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Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (Spiral) Details on the corrections to the first printing of the APA Publication Manual, as well as corrected papers are available athttp://apastyle.org/ The first printing of the manual is no longer being distributed, and the second printing has these corrections included. If you have any other questions, please contact customer service at 1-800-665-1148 Book Description:The "Publication Manual" is the style manual of choice for writers, editors, students, and educators. Although it is specifically designed to help writers in the behavioral sciences and social sciences, anyone who writes non-fiction prose can benefit from its guidance. The newly-revised Sixth Edition has not only been rewritten. It has also been thoroughly rethought and reorganized, making it the most user-friendly "Publication Manual" the APA has ever produced. You will be able to find answers to your questions faster than ever before. When you need advice on how to present information, including text, data, and graphics, for publication in any type of format - such as college and university papers, professional journals, presentations for colleagues, and online publication - you will find the advice you're looking for in the "Publication Manual". When you purchase the Publication Manual, you are purchasing more than a book. You are also gaining access to an extensive Web site totally devoted to your writing concerns. The site is updated regularly, so the latest information will be always at your fingertips. The Sixth Edition proffers the latest thinking on providing reference formats for new technologies and online sources, essential to today's research process.The extent and severity of the errors in the sixth edition of the Publication Manual have been greatly exaggerated. The first printing of the manual is correct, accurate, and fully functional in all areas except for 4 sample papers which have been corrected and are posted on the web for download. |
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How to Build a Blog (Create Awesome Content and Build Community) (The Digital Writer) Danny Iny, The Digital Writer Blogs are supposed to be the magic bullet for online business.
Whether you’re a professional blogger, or your blog is built to buoy your regular business, you’re pressing publish for one primary reason: To build, engage, and nurture a ginormous audience. Not just big and ginormous – an audience so massive, you’re virtually guaranteed a flood of customers wide enough that your rivers of online revenue will never stop flowing.
At least that’s how it’s supposed to work.
Yet, the vast majority of blogs trudge along with an Alexa ranking soaring north of a million, with their authors seemingly screaming down an empty online hallway as the echo of their voices slowly fades amid the chirping crickets and digital tumbleweeds.
It wasn’t supposed to be this hard. You must be doing something wrong, or maybe missing something obvious. You search for help, but instead of answers you find yourself skidding along a slippery path littered with snake oil and bombastic claims:
Make $500 in just one hour with our no-fail system!
How I Make $4,729.19 every week (while never changing out of my pajamas)
Tired of Losing? Beat any competitor to the front page of Google
The siren call is alluring, yet you can see the jagged rocks in the distance.
If it’s so easy to make $500 in an hour, why are they selling the system for $27, rather than hiring teams of people to do all the work and make them the money?
What if your competitor buys the same course – how fast will she knock you off of that top spot? Why do they always detail the amount down to the last decimal?
You’re skeptical, but hopeful. It seems like everyone is growing a giant site in no time, just not you. What’s their secret?
You open your wallet, carefully sidestepping the “results not typical” disclaimers. You sift through the nonsense, find a few kernels of solid advice, then diligently put them to work. But you find nothing but more crickets and tumbleweeds; maybe a scant handful of new visitors.
This is exhausting, but you don’t have to do it anymore. How to Build a Blog cuts through the crap and shows you why the guru strategies don’t always work, and how you can follow an A-B-C strategy that will.
It might not be easy, but it is possible. And “How to Build a Blog,” shows you exactly how with proven, tangible examples that you can start following tomorrow. |
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Life On the Mississippi Mark Twain This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. |
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Writers' Devotions to Go LeAnn Campbell LeAnn Campbell uses the book of Proverbs as a guidebook for writers. Every chapter has one or more nuggets of wisdom to motivate writers. There is guidance for perfecting your craft, choosing words carefully, and handling criticism. Listening to instruction, dealing with rejections, and working diligently instead of acting like a lazy sluggard—Proverbs covers it all. Proverbs 19:2 (NIV) could be a motto for writers: It is not good to have zeal without knowledge, nor to be hasty and miss the way.
Writers’ Devotions to Go covers all this and many more situations that writers face. It includes web sites for contacting writers’ organizations, suggestions for writers who want to establish local groups, guidelines for critique groups, and web sites to determine whether information you get over the Internet is the truth or a hoax.
LeAnn Campbell is a retired special education teacher. She and her husband live in rural Southwest Missouri. They have four daughters, two sons, eleven grandchildren and two great-grandsons. She is Marketing Coordinator for Heart of America Christian Writers Network, and has more than 1300 published articles, columns, and stories. She and Ina Mae Brooks co-authored Moms Over 50 Devotions to Go, published by Extreme Diva Media in 2007. OakTara Publishing will publish her middle-grade mystery, Old Shack Mystery, in 2009. |
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How to Actually Make Money Writing Jim Brumm Steady work for a writer can be difficult to come by. Freelance writers face much competition when it comes to finding work. But writers no longer have to wait until somebody needs something written to find work and make money. In How to Actually Make Money Writing author and long-time freelance writer Jim Brumm gives step-by-step instructions on how to make money writing business profiles, a virtually untapped source of revenue for freelance writers. Business profiles—articles that businesses use to market their products or services—are a unique and creative marketing tool for businesses, conceived and created by the author. Different from press releases or brochures, business profiles help businesses gain customers by building trust through the telling of their personal story. In a hyper-competitive world, there is a large demand in the business community for methods to differentiate themselves from their competition. Now, in How to Actually Make Money Writing, Brumm demonstrates, in conversational, easy-to-understand language, the secret of how freelance writers can provide this service for businesses large and small, and earn a good living doing it. Rather than clamoring with others freelancers for the few jobs available, Brumm shares how, with a little knowledge, writers can create their own jobs and earn a steady income producing business profiles. How to Actually Make Money Writing does not offer the typical fare of how to write magazine or newspaper articles. Rather, it offers precise, unambiguous instructions on how to take advantage of a specific revenue source for freelance writers that, for most, has gone largely unnoticed and untapped. Well worth the investment, with the information in How to Actually Make Money Writing a writer could easily earn fifty to a hundred times the price of the book on his or her first job. |
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Crafting Novels & Short Stories: Everything You Need to Know to Write Great Fiction Learn How to Create Stories That Captivate Agents, Editors, and Readers Alike! Inside you'll find the tools you need to build strong characters, keep your plots moving, master the art of dialogue, choose the right point of view, and more. This comprehensive book on the art of novel and short story writing is packed with advice and instruction from best-selling authors and writing experts like Nancy Kress, Elizabeth Sims, Hallie Ephron, N.M. Kelby, Heather Sellers, and Donald Maass, plus a foreword by James Scott Bell. You'll learn invaluable skills for mastering every area of the craft: - Define and refine your characters.
- Make your plot and conflict high-energy and intense.
- Hone your story's point of view.
- Create a rich setting and backstory.
- Craft dialogue that rings true.
- Select the right words and descriptions throughout your story.
- Revise your story to perfection.
Throughout you'll find supplemental sections that cover special topics like getting started, beating writer's block, researching your work, and getting published. They'll help you integrate your skills into a balanced, productive, and fulfilling career. Whether you're writing flash fiction, a short story, a novel, or an epic trilogy, you'll come away with the tools you need for strong and effective storytelling. |
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The Little Red Writing Book Brandon Royal For Writing Aficionados from All Walks of Life
Whether you're a writer, student, test-prep candidate, or business professional, this book offers a concise guide to penning strong and effective work for all occasions. A wealth of examples, charts, and engaging exercises makes The Little Red Writing Book an invaluable guide for anyone who wants to master those skills that will make a good writer even better. |