Category Archives: Book Review

How to Write a Damn Good Novel and How to Write a Damn Good Novel, II By James N. Frey St. Martin’s Press, 1987 and 1994 These two books are absolutely brilliant. As a non-fiction author I am still learning about fiction writing and these two books alone have vastly improved my understanding of the [...]

Getting Things Done The Art of Stress-Free Productivity By David Allen Penguin, 2001 ISBN 0-670-89924-0 (hardback) ISBN 0 14 20.0028 0 (paperback) We are all overwhelmed by all the things that we have to do. There have been many self-help, get organized and get your life in control books and even more calendars, planners, electronic [...]

On writing horror Revised edition A Handbook by The Horror Writers Association Edited by Mort Castle Writers Digest Books, Cincinnati, 2007 ISBN 1-58297-420-9 ISBN 978-1-58297-420-0 If you are interested in writing horror, this 260-page book is essential. In fact there is a lot of good stuff in here for people interested in writing any type [...]

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft By Stephen King Pocket Books, Simon & Schuster, 2000 (Hardcover by Scribner, 2000) ISBN-13 978-0-7434-5596-1 ISBN-10 0-7434-5596-7 Whatever you may think of Stephen King’s writing, there is no denying his huge presence over at least the US and really the English-speaking world’s writing.  This book as an interesting [...]