Audio book descriptionWhen Harriet Mahoney first saw it, Isabel Krug's bed was covered in sheared sheep and littered with celebrity biographies. The unpublished, fortyish, and recently jilted Harriet had fled wintry Manhattan in response to a mysterious ad in The New York R…
Audio book descriptionIn today's competitive business environment, it is more important than ever to be able to write in a clear and convincing manner. Now, business writing consultant Carol Gelderman provides simple techniques that will help you organize key ideas and put them in logical order, choose the right words and proper tone to get your points across, avoid common spelling and grammatical errors, brush up on punctuation to make your message easy to understand, correct flaws in emphasis and style, such as awkward transitions and misplaced modifiers, and edit your writing to eliminate unnecessary words or phrases and ensure clarity. As a result, you'll writing will not only be better, your business will be too!
Audio book descriptionIn this live workshop recording, acclaimed novelist and national book reviewer Carolyn Banks focuses on the overwhelming importance of plot to editors and readers. She offers advice on how to develop plot by creating concrete events that are carefully sequenced to create dramatic impact and how to develop a plot outline and use it as a selling tool and writing guide. Banks is the author of The Girls in a Row and Patchwork .
