| Books are my friends. When I think about which books I would take with me if I ever had to go to Fort Irwin, California, again, these are the best on craft and business. (Those of you who know Fort Irwin, are aware the only thing you can get on the radio out there is range control. Books are a must. And paperbacks don't require batteries.)
I am constantly reading and hoarding, er, buying books. Check back. The list changes.
1. Dan Poynter's Self-Publishing Manual, Vol. 2 How To Write, Print and Sell Your Own Book, Employing the Latest Technologies and the Newest Technologies by Dan Poynter
2. Red Hot Internet Publicity, revised 2009 edition, An Insider's Guide to Marketing Your Book on the Internet by Penny C. Sansevieri
3. If You Want To Write by Brenda Ueland
4. Bird By Bird by Anne Lamott
5. The Courage To Write by Ralph Keyes
6. Telling Lies For Fun And Profit by Lawrence Block
7. The Writer's Journey by Christopher Vogler
8. Beginnings, Middles and Ends by Nancy Kress
9. The Screenwriter's Workbook by Syd Field
10. Writing From The Inside Out: Transforming Your Psychological Blocks to Release the Writer Within by Dennis Palumbo
11. The Forest For The Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers by Betsy Lerner
12. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield
These are my current favorites. Go out and find yours!
(P.S. The main book I read at Fort Irwin in 1978? Appassionato by Gloria Vitanza Basile. Paperback. 1,015 pages. I still have it.)
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