Suggested Reading
and Reference Material

My Book, The Writer's Answer Book is designed for both the new and experienced writer.

• Are you a new writer trying to quickly learn the ins and outs of the writing field?
  
• Are you an experienced writer looking for new markets and ways to simplify the writing process?
  
• Do you want to find the answers to your writing questions?
  
• Do you want to look like a professional to publishers and editors?
  
• Do you want to know how to get more of your writing published?
  
• Do you want to know what pearls of wisdom I've learned in my 30 plus years of experience as a published writer?
  
• Do you want to know where to sell your nonfiction, children's, genre, humor, poetry and erotica?
  
• Do you want to know where to find freelance work?
  

My Book, The Writer's Resource Book Of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror And Mythology Are you a genre writer or reader, but don't understand all the terminology and don't have the time to do the needed research? Then The Writer's Resource Book Of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror And Mythology is just what you're looking for. My 272-page book is designed to supply a wealth of information to writers, and readers, of these genres.

The Writer's Resource Book will help you:

• Save countless hours of research time
  
• Stimulate your creativity so you can come up with more story ideas and add more interest and richness to your stories
  
• Easily understand complicated, and obscure, terminology so you can use these terms in your stories
  
• Understand the terminology when reading science fiction, fantasy, horror and mythology books and stories
  

The Writer's Resource Book contains:

• Over 3,600 terms that are explained in easy to understand everyday language
  
• Descriptions of 284 creatures, 71 weapons, 23 tortures, 58 castle parts, 251 gods, 47 computer terms, 55 stars, 20 types of space propulsion, 75 famous people and more
  
• Additional research is available by accessing the six-page bibliography of books, magazines, CDs and websites
  
• Searches for related terms have been simplified through extensive cross-referencing and groupings of terms like Arthurian, Castles, Computers, Creatures and more.

1001 Ways to Market Your Books, Sixth Edition by John Kremer.

This is a must for anyone trying to market their book, whether it's in print or an ebook. "Don't just read the book, memorize it," an agent once told me about Mr. Kremer's book.

You should know that publishing houses spend little or no money to market the bulk of their authors. Since about 80% of the books published never turn a profit all the marketing money goes to the big sellers. Even if your book is published, it must be carried by bookstores, who only stock a fraction of the books available to them. If you think you've won the battle once your book is on bookstore's shelves, you're wrong. Without aggressive promotion, sales will be slow or nonexistent and your book will be removed from the shelf in two to seven days. When that happens, your book has essentially reached the end of its life. So, you spent at least a year writing your book, maybe another two years finding a publisher and one to three years for the publisher to have a finished product. All the efforts you put into seeing your book in print, a minimum of four years of your life, can go down the tubes in a week.

If you are going to self-publish a print or ebook, then you have even more work to do. Now you have to overcome the stigma that people only self-publish because their book wasn't good enough for a publisher.

If all of this scares you, good. Hopefully you can turn that fear into action, marketing action. That's why it's so vital to have a strong and well-focused marketing plan.

Mr. Kremer's book will help you to achieve this. It explains the basics of marketing, how to put together a marketing plan, how to promote your book, traditional and nontraditional marketing techniques, working with bookstores, selling to schools and libraries, how to sell subsidiary rights, selling overseas and more.

The Well-Fed Writer: Financial Self-Sufficiency As a Freelance Writer in Six Months or Less by Peter Bowerman - Peter will show you how to be financially self-sufficient as a freelance writer in a big city in six months or less.

The Book Lover's Guide to the Internet, Revised by Evan Morris. This book is filled with links for book lovers and book collectors. The number of links is astounding, and they are very useful.

How to Write & Illustrate Children's Books and Get Them Published by Treld Pelkey Bicknell and Felicity Trotman is an excellent book for anyone interested in writing or illustrating children's books. It answers many questions that would otherwise take years of experience to learn.

Private Eyes: A Writer's Guide to Private Investigating (Howdunit Series) by Hal Blythe, Charlie Sweet and John Landreth.

Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan. This is a wonderful book and after going just a little was through the book my artistic productivity skyrocketed.