Writing and Speaking

Getting Hooked:
Fiction's Opening Sentences 1950s-1990s
Edited by Sharon Rendell-Smock

What grabs the reader and keeps him (or her) interested? Sharon Rendell-Smock, award-winning author of Living With Big Cats (see the "Animals" section), compiled 50 years' winning opening sentences. The book is divided by decade and by genre: mystery, science fiction, mainstream, western, and romance. For each new decade, Rendell-Smock summarizes what our world was like in terms of social events, technological advances, and popular entertainment. Boxed sidebars throughout the book set off famous quotations, pseudonym games, trends, and other information (including a list of banned books that overcame this designation and became classics). The trivia game, "Who Said That?" is the final section of this book.

For more information about this book, visit the author's website. (But don't forget to come back to Book Clearing House to order!)

• Item# 731-2
• 88 pp., softcover
• $7.95

Is There A Book In You?
Step-by-step guide to publishing, marketing and promoting book.
7th Edition, Forms and Resources Included.
by Autumn Marie Cherry

Is there a book in you? Where do you start? This practical step-by-step guide to writing, publishing, marketing, and promoting your book covers everything from "soup to nuts"!

• Item# 5633
• 195 pp., spiral softcover, 1-88-2185-63-3
• $39.95

Ideas for Writing Creative Christmas Letters That People Are Actually Eager to Read!

by Janet Colbrunn

Each year more and more people are supplementing or substituting their Christmas card tradition with a newsy Christmas letter. They look for colorful Christmas stationery and dutifully report the family activities for the year. Ideas for Writing Creative Christmas Letters by Janet Colbrunn, enables families to weave a creative theme into their own traditional letter topics resulting in a family update that not only informs but also amuses their friends. With 30 sample letters and theme ideas to choose from, the letter writer may select from three types of letters.

• Item# 0808
• 96 pp., paperback, 0979070805
• $39.95

ISO 9000 For Chemical Distributors
By Rudi Czikalla

This documentation development tool guides the user through the documentation development process of an ISO 9002 quality system for Chemical Distributors.

• Item# 2126
• softcover, 1-896712-12-6
• $145.00

ISO 9000 For Chemical Manufacturers
By Rudi Czikalla

This hands-on and result-oriented working tool guides the user step-by-step through the documentation development process of an ISO 9002 quality system for Chemical Manufacturers.

• Item# 210xa
• softcover, 1-896712-10-x
• $145.00

ISO 9000 Documentation Development Tool for Manufacturing Industries
By Rudi Czikalla

This powerful hands-on work tool for developing the documentation of quality systems that meet the requirements of ISO 9000 contains an introduction to the documentation development process, a complete documentation model of a quality system and a detailed checklist of ISO 9000 requirements.

• Item# 2061
• softcover, 1-896712-06-1
• $145.00

The Joy of Journaling
By Drs. Paul & Pat D'Encarnacao, Eagle Wing Books

An excellent introduction to the world of journaling by two well-known treatment professionals. Very readable, spiced with lots of patients' journal entries and quotes. Shows how one can develop true insight through journaling. Organized into the how's and whys of journaling using "real life" excerpts from existing journals. Dares readers to think and rethink their lives. Through their unique way of keeping a journal we are invited on a journey - it is a destination whose destination is joy. Clearly written, illustrated.

• Item# 127-4
• 110 pp., softcover
• $11.95

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QS 9000 Documentation Development Tool for Automotive-Parts Manufacturers
By Rudi Czikalla

A powerful hands-on work tool for developing the documentation of a QS-9000 quality system. The outlined documentation development process is easy to follow.

• Item# 2088
• softcover, 1-896712-08-8
• $145.00

Reclaiming The Magic:
A Writers Guide To Success
By Lorna Tedder



Writing fiction is as close to godhood as mere mortals can get. Unfortunately, at some point in almost every writer's life, the spark of creation fizzles and the magic is lost, along with income, prestige, and self-worth. These fiction writers, most of whom are published and rely on royalties to pay their bills, suddenly find themselves wondering what went wrong and blaming themselves for losing the magic, yet at the same time they are helpless to break out of their doldrums.

Unlike any other self-help book for writers, Reclaiming the Magic: A Writer's Guide to Success, addresses the seven syndromes that can destroy a writer's ability to create sparkling stories and offers creative, informal, and almost spiritual suggestions for finding the way back to a niche that feels natural and magical. The reader is guided through his journey in an informal, almost intimate voice that relays personal experiences and successes with reclaiming the lost magic. Through self-assessments, exercises, and helpful hints, this book offers the disillusioned fiction writer a New Millennium sense of spirituality and self-discovery that will give the writer both renewal and purpose.

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Turning Your Life's Stories into a Literary Memoir 
A Memoir People Actually Want to Read
by Peggy Lang & Robert Goodman

This Silver Threads workbook of trade secrets for writing a memoir covers everything the memoir writer needs to know, from researching and writing, to crafting powerful prose, to dealing with unhappy relatives, to getting published.

• Item# 7041
• 70 pp., softcover, 1-893067-04-1
• $12.95

The Writer's Guide to Resilience
How to Bounce When You Want to Shatter
By Dara Girard

At some point in his/her career, every writer—published or unpublished—experiences the pain of rejection, discouragement, disappointment, and other hazards of the writing life.

Resilience is facing the obstacles ahead and knowing how to overcome them. Most authors disappear after a few books and very few freelance writers can survive financially.

In The Writer’s Guide to Resilience the reader will:

• Learn the truth about failure
• Discover the ultimate dream killer
• Find out how to get rid of a Wet Blanket
• Discover the one secret every full-time writer knows and much more…

If you think making a living as a writer is a matter of luck, this book will show you how to create your own luck and other tips to lead you to writing success. Your destiny is at hand!

• Item# 9144
• 128 pgs., softcover 978-0-9770191-4-4, 0-9770191-4-4    
• $12.95

Writing and Publishing Personal Essays
By Sheila Bender

The growing popularity of the personal essay is not difficult to explain. The personal essay is short, easy to read, and poignant. It permits experienced and beginning writers alike to develop manuscripts and get them published in a timely manner. And the personal essay is ennobling; it affirms the universal humanity in the large and small details of the writer's life.

In Writing and Publishing Personal Essays, Sheila Bender shares her tested and proven techniques for developing personal essays. She discusses eight different types of essays and offers step-by-step instructions for writing each. She demonstrates her effective "Three-Step Response Method" for obtaining meaningful and useful feedback from readers and includes essays written by students and professionals to illustrate the different types of essays. She devotes a special chapter to suggestions and resources for editing, writing well and getting published.

This is an important book. Brenda Miller, author of Season of the Body: Essays and Tell It Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction, says "Sheila Bender is an extraordinary teacher in person and on the page. In Writing and Publishing Personal Essays, her enthusiasm, her wit, and her expertise provide us with exciting ways to approach the art of creative nonfiction. This book is chock full of useful instructions and prompts that will keep you writing a long time."

In Writing and Publishing Personal Essays, Sheila Bender's adds numerous new essay examples and updated publishing and editing information to the content of her important, previously published book, Writing Personal Essays: How to Shape Your Life Experiences for the Page ( Writer's Digest Books, 1995). Sheila is the author of eleven other books and of essays that have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies.