Letters to New Authors: Preview

Letters to New Authors: Preview
Author: Rachael Herron
Publisher: HGA Publishing
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2019-11-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Check out this preview of Rachael's inspiring letters for living your best creative life! This is the firm nudge you’ve been needing to push you from wanting-to-write to actually getting your work done! Is writing the most important thing to you, but you never get any done? Do you write all the time in your mind but never put the words onto paper? Or are you stuck in the middle of writing and can’t see your way out? For less than the cost of one venti latte, let Rachael Herron lead you out of procrastination and right back to your desk where the words are waiting for you to capture. When she’s not writing her own books, Rachael leads international writing retreats and teaches writing in the extension programs at UC Berkeley and Stanford. “With the help of Herron’s advice, a person can stop careening across the writing highway, make forward progress between the lines, and successfully complete the first draft.” Kristine Kay Mietzner “Simply put, if you have ever struggled to finish a book, if you have a yen to write about a time in your life, but aren't sure how to structure it, where to start, how to get through the middle and across the finish line---THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU.” - Barbara Edelman on Fast-Draft Your Memoir “Herron is like the little cheer-leading angel on your shoulder, having your back the whole way through your writing endeavors.” Amazon Reviewer

The Doll House

The Doll House
Author: Phoebe Morgan
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2017-09-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0008271690

You never know who’s watching... ‘Spine-chilling ... makes you realise how little you ever know anyone!’ The Sun ‘A brilliantly creepy and insightfully written debut. I tore through it’ Gillian McAllister ‘Unnerving and spine-chilling’ Mel Sherratt

A Velocity of Being

A Velocity of Being
Author: Maria Popova
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2018
Genre: JUVENILE NONFICTION
ISBN: 9781592702282

An expansive collection of love letters to books, libraries, and reading, from a wonderfully eclectic array of thinkers and creators.

Dear Me

Dear Me
Author: Joseph Galliano
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2011-10-25
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1451649681

These nuggets of wisdom are offered by an Academy Award–nominated actor (James Woods), a popular comedian (Aasif Mandvi), and a world-famous novelist (Jodi Picoult) to their sixteen-year-old selves. No matter how accomplished and confident they seem today, at sixteen, they were like the rest of us—often unsure, frequently confused, and usually in need of a little reassurance. In Dear Me, 75 celebrities, writers, musicians, athletes, and actors have written letters to their younger selves that give words of comfort, warning, humor, and advice. These letters present intimate, moving, and witty insights into some of the world’s most intriguing and admired individuals. By turns funny, surprising, raw, and uplifting, this singular collection captures the universal conditions that are youth, life, and growing up.

More Letters of Note

More Letters of Note
Author: Shaun Usher
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-10-05
Genre: Correspondence
ISBN: 9781786891693

FOLLOW-UP TO THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER INCLUDING LETTERS FROM: Jane Austen, Richard Burton, Helen Keller, Alan Turing, Albus Dumbledore, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry James, Sylvia Plath, John Lennon, Gerald Durrell, Janis Joplin, Mozart, Janis Joplin, Hunter S. Thompson, C. G. Jung, Katherine Mansfield, Marge Simpson, David Bowie, Dorothy Parker, Buckminster Fuller, Beatrix Potter, Che Guevara, Evelyn Waugh, Charlotte Bront� and many more. Discover Richard Burton's farewell note to Elizabeth Taylor, Helen Keller's letter to The New York Symphony Orchestra about 'hearing' their concert through her fingers, the final missives from a doomed Japan Airlines flight in 1985, David Bowie's response to his first piece of fan mail from America and even Albus Dumbledore writing to a reader applying for the position of Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor at Hogwarts. More Letters of Note is another rich and inspiring collection, which reminds us that much of what matters in our lives finds its way into our letters.

About the Authors

About the Authors
Author: Katie Wood Ray
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Based on a profound understanding of the ways in which young children learn, this book shows teachers how to launch a writing workshop by inviting children to do what they do naturallymake stuff.

Letters to Live By

Letters to Live By
Author: Lisa Frenkel Riddiough
Publisher: Running Press Kids
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2022-01-11
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0762473061

A social-emotional concept picture book that teaches readers the power of setting intentions and embracing mindfulness in our everyday. Appreciate art, become brave, and choose compassion. Pairing big ideas like generosity, respect, and joy with the letters of the alphabet, Letters to Live By is a beautiful picture book that encourages children to make the most of each day and leave their mark on the world.

If You Find This Letter

If You Find This Letter
Author: Hannah Brencher
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2016-04-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1476784108

"A ... memoir of love and faith from Hannah Brencher ... who has dedicated her life to showing total strangers that they are not alone in the world. Fresh out of college, Hannah Brencher moved to New York, expecting her life to look like a scene from Sex and the City. Instead, she found a city full of people who knew where they were going and what they were doing ... Lonely and depressed, she noticed a woman who looked like she felt the same way on the subway. Hannah did something strange--she wrote the woman a letter. She folded it, scribbled 'If you find this letter, it's for you...' on the front and left it behind. When she realized that it made her feel better, she started writing and leaving love notes all over the city ... [eventually sending 400 handwritten letters as a result of an Internet post and starting the website The World Needs More Love Letters]"--

Honeymooning

Honeymooning
Author: Rachael Herron
Publisher: HGA Publishing
Total Pages: 63
Release: 2014-09-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1940785073

When cashmere-mogul Janet marries the cowboy, she knows she'll have a lot to learn about roughing it. Tom lets her pay for the wedding, but he insists on handling the honeymoon. The budget-minded Tom, however, chooses a tropical destination which might be a little too…casual. If a newly-married couple spends their first week as man and wife trying to keep their clothes on, can the sparks still fly? With yarn and knitting, love and romance, this Cypress Hollow short story by international bestseller Rachael Herron fulfills the need for just one more row.

Reading Like a Writer

Reading Like a Writer
Author: Francine Prose
Publisher: Union Books
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2012-04-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1908526149

In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and tricks of the masters to discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humour and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire readers to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart – to take pleasure in the long and magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; to look to John le Carré for a lesson in how to advance plot through dialogue and to Flannery O’ Connor for the cunning use of the telling detail; to be inspired by Emily Brontë ’ s structural nuance and Charles Dickens’ s deceptively simple narrative techniques. Most importantly, Prose cautions readers to slow down and pay attention to words, the raw material out of which all literature is crafted, and reminds us that good writing comes out of good reading.