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Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition

A Guide to Narrative Craft

Janet Burroway, Elizabeth Stuckey-French, and Ned Stuckey-French

A creative writer's shelf should hold at least three essential books: a dictionary, a style guide, and Writing Fiction. Janet Burroway's best-selling classic is the most widely used creative writing text in America. Now in its tenth edition, Writing Fiction is more accessible than ever for writers of all levels-- inside or outside the classroom.

"The tenth edition of Janet Burroway's classic 1982 book guides fiction writers of all levels through the entire creative process, with updated exemplary passages and advice from contemporary authors, and sections on current issues such as distraction, appropriation, different genres, and young adult fiction. Chapters focus on characterization, setting, plot and structure, point of view, and revision, and each closes with a list of suggested readings and writing prompts that allow for further study."--Poets & Writers

2019 240 p. 6 x 9 4 halftones 1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-61669-8 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00

Immersion

A Writer's Guide to Going Deep

Ted Conover

"Conover distills decades of hard-won knowledge into a how-to guide for journalists." -- Columbia Journalism Review

"A warm and generous guide for students and others aspiring to produce the kind of finely observed prose that represents journalism's literary apex. . . . [Conover's] clear voice and thoughtful instructions will be invaluable to undergraduate and graduate students embarking on their first ambitious projects. Professors and veteran journalists will appreciate Conover's definition of immersion journalism, his defense of craft, and his discourse on ethics." --Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

2016 192 p. 51/2 x 81/2 2 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-11306-7 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40

The Business of Being a Writer

Jane Friedman

"While countless books and classes exist to help writers improve their craft, few focus on the practical aspects of maintaining a writing career over time. Friedman's wise and wide-ranging The Business of Being a Writer offers essential and extremely helpful advice on how writers can survive and thrive in the current publishing landscape." --Dinty W. Moore, author of The Story Cure

"Every writer needs tough love. Typically that's delivered by your editor as you're writing the book. But where's the tough love once your book is ready for the world? It's in here and Jane Friedman's got the goods for you. No one will better help you understand the challenges ahead; no one will offer a more comprehensive approach to scaling the walls."--Richard Nash, CEO, Cursor, and former publisher of Soft Skull Press

2018 368 p. 6 x 9 2 tables 3 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-39316-2 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00

Behind the Book

Eleven Authors on Their Path to Publication

Chris Mackenzie Jones

"An indispensable tool for writers eager to peek behind the curtain and learn about the realities of writing and publishing. Myths and mysteries about being an `author' abound, and this book shines a bright light on it all. Full of valuable nuggets, Behind the Book draws on real-life stories as well as the wisdom of the very best writing guides to reveal an empowering truth: There's no one path to publishing success."--Katrin Schumann, author of The Secret Power of Middle Children

2018 224 p. 6 x 9 11 halftones 4 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-40580-3 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00

Writing Abroad

A Guide for Travelers

Peter Chilson and Joanne B. Mulcahy

2017 224 p. 6 x 9 5 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-44449-9 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00

Storycraft

The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction

Jack Hart

"If you have any interest in trying to craft the kind of narrative nonfiction practiced by the likes of John McPhee, Mary Roach, Tracy Kidder, Susan Orlean and Erik Larson, this is a book for you. . . . It offers any nonfiction writer, and freelancer, concrete ways to think about a topic, visualize the most interesting way of presenting its narrative arc, and organize most effectively the presentation of material."--Writer

2011 280 p. 6 x 9 15 line drawings 6 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-31816-5 $15.00 Your Price: $12.00

Tools for Dramatic Writers by Will Dunne

The Dramatic Writer's Companion, Second Edition

Tools to Develop Characters, Cause Scenes, and Build Stories

"A breath of fresh air. Whether you're working on your first play or your fortieth, preparing a first draft or polishing up a finished piece, The Dramatic Writer's Companion offers challenging, thought-provoking exercises rather than formulaic `how-to' solutions. This is the kind of book that not only makes plays stronger; it makes writers stronger as well."--Jeni Mahoney, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference

2017 352 p. 6 x 9 7 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-49408-1 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00

Character, Scene, and Story

New Tools from the Dramatic Writer's Companion

2017 240 p. 6 x 9 8 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-39350-6 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00

The Architecture of Story

A Technical Guide for the Dramatic Writer

2016 224 p. 6 x 9 4 tables 9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-18191-2 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40

The Art of Creative Research

A Field Guide for Writers

Philip Gerard

"Many authors writing a book about research would end it once all of the tips and tricks have been covered. Gerard is to be commended for an approach that, from the very first pages, is sensitive to the fact that the point of all of this research is to produce a piece of writing. He closes the book with craft-focused advice on how to breathe life into the research one has done and translating it onto the page. Writers will find time-honored advice about including sensory details, developing narrative voice, and how to write a scene that one has not witnessed firsthand."--Hippocampus Magazine

2017 240 p. 51/2 x 81/2 10 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-17980-3 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40

I'll Tell You Mine

Thirty Years of Essays from the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program

Edited by Hope Edelman and Robin Hemley

"Varied and stunning. . . . This expertly curated anthology holds abundant value for the student of writing and lover of literature alike." --Publishers Weekly

"Not only is this an anthology of some of the best essays that have been written in the United States over the last three decades, but it is also a well-planned writing textbook. The editors are astute, talented, and experienced and the essays are wonderful. This is an important book." --Ned Stuckey-French, author of The American Essay in the American Century

2015 280 p. 6 x 9 11 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-30647-6 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00

Travel Writer's Field Guide

Phoebe Smith and Daniel Neilson

Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group 2019 254 p. 9 x 63/4 12 Paper ISBN: 978-1-9993258-0-0 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00

The Writer's Diet

A Guide to Fit Prose

Helen Sword

"Addressing wielders of words who remain in thrall to the passive verb and the abstract noun, Sword aims to lead us to `fit and trim' prose via an assault course covering horrors such as `Prepositional pudge,' `Ad-dictions' and `Waste words.' The tone is equal parts exasperation and encouragement, and worth every sweaty minute." --Times Higher Education

2016 88 p. 51/2 x 71/2 13 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-35198-8 $15.00 Your Price: $12.00

Getting It Published

A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books, Third Edition

William Germano

"A clear and enthralling read, channeling Germano's expertise on scholarly publishing into a timely, approachable and inspiring book that can be used as a quick reference or as part of a more comprehensive education. The book's masterful synthesis of breadth and words makes it a tremendously valuable resource for new and experienced academic writers alike, as well as the librarians helping them."--Reference Reviews

2016 304 p. 6 x 9 5 halftones 14 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-28140-7 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00

From Dissertation to Book, Second Edition

William Germano

"Although publishing is a must for professors (particularly those seeking tenure), it is not a straightforward process. . . . Germano's aim with From Dissertation to Book is to help academics understand why their work might be rejected by publishers and how to make it more attractive to them."--Publishing Research Quarterly

2013 184 p. 5 x 8 4 line drawings, 3 tables 15 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-06204-4 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40

The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking

Brooke Borel

"An indispensable resource in the age of `fake news,' this slim but informative title offers writers, researchers, and journalists best practices for fact-checking in a wide variety of media." --Library Journal

"Many of the tips [Borel] offers here are useful not just to fact-checkers, but also to reporters and researchers. . . . She's especially good at explaining the different levels of attribution, which many journalists don't completely understand, and how scientific studies and statistics can be misunderstood and manipulated. She reiterates one piece of advice so often it almost seems like a mantra: When in doubt, ask an expert." --Chicago Reader

2016 192 p. 51/2 x 81/2 11 halftones, 2 line drawings 16 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-29093-5 $17.00 Your Price: $13.60

Write No Matter What

Advice for Academics

Joli Jensen

"Most academics need to write, yet for many, argues Joli Jensen, it becomes something close to an `existential trauma.' What they need to do is treat writing like a craft, rather than an ordeal, a matter of learning `effective tools and habits' but not `a measure of [their] inner worth.'" --Times Higher Education

2017 192 p. 51/2 x 81/2 17 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-46170-0 $15.00 Your Price: $12.00

Association of University Presses

2020 Directory

This essential annual reference features editorial programs and publishing for all 140+ Association members and much more.

2020 260 p. 6 x 9 18 Paper ISBN: 978-0-945103-44-8 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00

Writing for Social Scientists

How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article, Third Edition

Howard S. Becker

For more than thirty years, Writing for Social Scientists has been a lifeboat for writers in all fields, from beginning students to published authors. Becker applies his sociologist's eye to some of the common problems all academic writers face, offering concrete advice for overcoming these obstacles and gaining confidence as a writer.

While the underlying challenges of writing have remained the same since the book first appeared, the context in which academic writers work has changed dramatically, thanks to rapid changes in technology and ever greater institutional pressures. This new edition has been updated throughout to reflect these changes, offering a new generation of scholars and students encouragement to write about society or any other scholarly topic clearly and persuasively.

2020 200 p. 51/2 x 81/2 12 halftones 19 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-64393-9 $14.00 Your Price: $11.20

Alive in the Writing

Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov

Kirin Narayan

"[Narayan] has written a brief and brilliant book about what it means to be an ethnographer, and how to do it responsibly, and better."--New Yorker

2012 168 p. 51/2 x 81/2 1 halftone 20 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-56819-5 $23.00 Your Price: $18.40

Writing Science in Plain English

Anne E. Greene

"In these 124 brisk pages, Greene manages to deliver a series of practical, hands-on lessons to make scientific prose more lucid, more direct, more immediately comprehensible, and, yes, more concise."--Science Editor

2013 136 p. 51/2 x 81/2 21 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-02637-4 $15.00 Your Price: $12.00

Economical Writing, Third Edition

Thirty-Five Rules for Clear and Persuasive Prose

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

"If you want to be read (and who doesn't) and be remembered (better yet), Economical Writing is for you. This entertaining volume will teach you how to write meaningful and joyful economics. A dose of McCloskey banishes the dismal from the `dismal science.' McCloskey is the Strunk and White of economics, and Economical Writing should be required reading for all economists." --Claudia Goldin, Harvard University

2019 176 p. 51/2 x 81/2 3 halftones 22 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-44807-7 $14.00 Your Price: $11.20

The Chicago Guide to Writing about Numbers, Second Edition

Jane E. Miller

"Miller presents a holistic and accessible approach to understanding the issues in communicating information by focusing on the entire writing process. Besides providing foundation principles for writing about numbers and exploring tools for displaying figures, the book combines statistical literacy with good writing."--Choice, on the first edition

2015 360 p. 51/2 x 81/2 22 halftones, 47 line drawings 23 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-18577-4 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00

Houston, We Have a Narrative

Why Science Needs Story

Randy Olson

"Olson argues that narrative skill is central not just to science communication but also to research reportage, preventing false positives, yawn-worthy delivery and more."--Nature

2015 256 p. 6 x 9 11 halftones, 9 line drawings 24 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-27084-5 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00

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