Here is a list of the best top ten must-have books for every writer. Each has excellent customer reviews and contain essential information every writer needs, no matter whether you are writing a book, blog, website, school papers, or other publishable manuscripts. Don't miss Stephen King, a renowned famous published author's tips, lessons, and advice on writing (video below).
1. Start Writing Your Book Today-Book Available in 3 Formats:
Kindle, Paperback & Audio Book
If you haven't started writing yet and have the desire to do so, this book will help you get motivated and take you through a step by step process to help you get started. If you are already a published author this book can help you get through some of the rough spots. "About the Author: Morgan is a writing coach and editor of nonfiction writing. She works with people who want to write a book, but don’t know where to start. She helps writers tap into their bold message, shape the words so they resonate with the reader, and produce a book that has a powerful impact on the world. Morgan founded Paper Raven Books, where she coaches writers, chapter-by-chapter, through writing their book. Morgan and her team of top-notch editors and proofreaders at Paper Raven Books shape and polish first drafts into publishable manuscripts".
2. The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published
The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published is a must have for beginning and established writer's.
"This book has been revised and updated, with new sections on ebooks, self-publishing, crowd-funding through Kickstarter, blogging, increasing visibility via online marketing, micropublishing, the power of social media and author websites, and more—how to come up with a blockbuster title, create a selling proposal, find the right agent, understand a book contract, and develop marketing and publicity savvy. Includes interviews with hundreds of publishing insiders and authors, including Seth Godin, Neil Gaiman, Amy Bloom, Margaret Atwood, Leonard Lopate, plus agents, editors, and booksellers; sidebars featuring real-life publishing success stories; sample proposals, query letters, and an entirely updated resources and publishers directory".
"This book has been revised and updated, with new sections on ebooks, self-publishing, crowd-funding through Kickstarter, blogging, increasing visibility via online marketing, micropublishing, the power of social media and author websites, and more—how to come up with a blockbuster title, create a selling proposal, find the right agent, understand a book contract, and develop marketing and publicity savvy. Includes interviews with hundreds of publishing insiders and authors, including Seth Godin, Neil Gaiman, Amy Bloom, Margaret Atwood, Leonard Lopate, plus agents, editors, and booksellers; sidebars featuring real-life publishing success stories; sample proposals, query letters, and an entirely updated resources and publishers directory".
3. The Working Writer's Guide
If writing is your passion, this guide will help you make a living doing it. "People often believe that either that all published authors earn millions or that it’s impossible to make a living as a writer. It’s certainly possible to make a living based on your writing, but a number of different revenue streams are required. In reality, most full-time writers have multiple sources of income. These include book sales, royalties, teaching, workshops, coaching, editing, public speaking, events, websites, social media, and business and technical writing".
About the Author: "Simon Rose is the author of The Alchemist's Portrait, The Sorcerer's Letterbox, The Clone Conspiracy, The Emerald Curse, The Heretic's Tomb, The Doomsday Mask, The Time Camera, The Sphere of Septimus, Flashback, Future Imperfect, Twisted Fate, and the Shadowzone series. He is also the author of The Children's Writer's Guide, The Working Writer's Guide, The Social Media Writer's Guide, The Time Traveler's Guide, a contributor to The Complete Guide to Writing Science Fiction and has written many non-fiction books with Weigl Publishers and Capstone".
About the Author: "Simon Rose is the author of The Alchemist's Portrait, The Sorcerer's Letterbox, The Clone Conspiracy, The Emerald Curse, The Heretic's Tomb, The Doomsday Mask, The Time Camera, The Sphere of Septimus, Flashback, Future Imperfect, Twisted Fate, and the Shadowzone series. He is also the author of The Children's Writer's Guide, The Working Writer's Guide, The Social Media Writer's Guide, The Time Traveler's Guide, a contributor to The Complete Guide to Writing Science Fiction and has written many non-fiction books with Weigl Publishers and Capstone".
4. Working it out: troubleshooting guide for writers
This book contains tried and tested methods of idea generation, outlining, drafting, revising and editing-explained, illustrated with examples and arranged for reference. This text reviews the essentials of essay structure and the stages of the writing process in the first chapter. Considerations such as audience, purpose and role are also covered.
5. Fool Proof Outline (Kindle Edition) by Christopher Downing
"The Fool Proof Outline is filled with just the right amount of brainstorming prompts, both challenging you to engage readers emotionally and propelling your novel toward completion. Character, plot, and scene questionnaires are also included to keep you focused one step at a time. Even the most seasoned writer will appreciate the Fool Proof Outline, yet it offers an ease-of-use that will benefit writers of every level. The ebook contains a link to the Fool Proof Outline in both Scrivener and Excel. If you’ve been considering Scrivener, this is a wonderful place to start"!
6. Story Journal (Custom Journal / Log / Writing Notebook / Diary of your story development / Outline): The Writer's Tool Kit-Paperback
This Story Journal was created to aid in the development and collecting of story ideas. Within you will find a section for Plot, Setting, Conflict and Characters. On the right hand pages you can further breakdown your stories into Acts, Scenes, Chapters or whatever you decide you need with an outline section. This book will give you the ability to track about 80 story ideas.
7. Jeff Herman's Guide to Book Publishers, Editors and Literary Agents 2017: Who They Are, What They Want, How to Win Them Over
Customer Review: “I sent my proposal and sample pages to ten agents selected from Jeff Herman’s Guide and was shocked to receive interest from three of them. I celebrated when I signed with an agent and again when my first book was sold.”
— Jacqueline Winspear, New York Times–bestselling author of Maisie Dobbs
About the Author: Jeff Herman, a successful literary agent, has sold more than a thousand books to dozens of publishers and, since 1990, has mentored millions of writers through this guidebook.
— Jacqueline Winspear, New York Times–bestselling author of Maisie Dobbs
About the Author: Jeff Herman, a successful literary agent, has sold more than a thousand books to dozens of publishers and, since 1990, has mentored millions of writers through this guidebook.
8. On Writing Well by William Zinsser
No matter what you are writing about, what platform you are using, or what plans you have for the piece you are writing-there is a huge difference between just writing and writing well. This book gives you the secrets you need to write and do it well. Writing something well attracts your readers attention and interest, intrigues, inspires, and leaves them wanting more. The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction was first published in 1976, has sold almost 1.5 million copies to three generations of writers, editors, journalists, teachers and students.
About the Author: William Zinsser is a writer, editor, and teacher who started his career with the New York Herald Tribune and has contributed to leading magazines for many years. He has written 18 books, taught at Yale where he was master of Branford College, and is currently still teaching.
About the Author: William Zinsser is a writer, editor, and teacher who started his career with the New York Herald Tribune and has contributed to leading magazines for many years. He has written 18 books, taught at Yale where he was master of Branford College, and is currently still teaching.
9. The McGraw-Hill Guide-Writing for College-Writing for Life
Great for students and writers! This book teaches how to set goals for your writing, use effective composing strategies to achieve those goals, and assess your progress towards achieving them. Students will learn the underlying principles on which the effectiveness of any writing is assessed―by assessing it themselves―and develop the strategies they’ll need to support their writing
10. The Oxford Essential guide to writing
Whether you’re composing a letter, writing a school thesis, or starting a novel, this resource offers expert advice on how to think more creatively, how to conjure up ideas from scratch, and how to express those ideas clearly and elegantly. No matter where you find yourself in the writing process—from the daunting look of a blank page, to the rough draft that needs shaping, to the small but important questions of punctuation—you’ll find what you need in this one handy, all-inclusive volume.
Featured Video: Creative Writing Lessons: Creative Writing Tips, Advice And Lessons from Best Seller-Stephen King
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Quotes from Famous Writer's: “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.” ― Ernest Hemingway