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  • Detective Fiction for Young Readers

    Full of Secrets

    by Chris McGee ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    Detective Fiction for Young Readers is an examination of contemporary mystery stories for children and young adults. This volume explores how the conventions, rules, and expectations of adult mystery fiction have filtered down, so to speak, especially in the past several decades, to writing for younger readers. The book is organized into three sections that explore the whodunit, the hardboiled, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Queer as Camp

    Essays on Summer, Style, and Sexuality

    by Kenneth B. Kidd, Derritt Mason, Kyle Eveleth, Kathryn Kent, D. Gilson, Charlie Hailey, Ana M. Jimenez-Moreno, Mark Lipton, Chris McGee0, Roderick McGillis1, Kerry Mallan2, Tammy L. Mielke3, Alexis Mitchell4, Flavia Musinsky5, Daniel Mallory Ortberg6, Annebella Pollen7, Andrew Trevarrow8, Paul Venzo9, Joshua Whitehead0 ...
    Named the #1 Bestselling Non-Fiction Title by the Calgary HeraldTo camp means to occupy a place and/or time provisionally or under special circumstances. To camp can also mean to queer. And for many children and young adults, summer camp is a formative experience mixed with homosocial structure and homoerotic longing. In Queer as Camp, editors Kenneth B. Kidd and Derritt Mason curate a collection ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • Writing Fiction

    A Guide to Narrative Craft

    by Janet Burroway, Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Ned Stuckey-French ...
    Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
    This updated edition of the classic, comprehensive guide to creative writing features new topics and writing prompts, contemporary examples, and more.A creative writer's shelf should hold at least three essential books: a dictionary, a style guide, and Janet Burroway's Writing Fiction. This best-selling classic is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and for decades it has helped ... Read more

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  • About Writing

    7 Essays, 4 Letters, 5 Interviews

    by Samuel R. Delany ...
    From the four-time Nebula Award–winning novelist and literary critic, essential reading for the creative writer.Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri's Art of Dramatic Writing. Taking up specifics (When do flashbacks work, and when should you avoid them? How do you make characters both ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Creating Unforgettable Characters

    A Practical Guide to Character Development in Films, TV Series, Advertisements, Novels & Short Stories

    by Linda Seger ...
    From a longtime script consultant, "a vital aid to all writers, novelists, and screenwriters . . . invaluable" (Gale Anne Hurd, producer, The Walking Dead and Aliens).In this book, Linda Seger, author of Making a Good Script Great, shows how to create strong, multidimensional characters in fiction, covering everything from research to character block. She introduces concepts designed to stimulate ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Story Cure

    A Book Doctor's Pain-Free Guide to Finishing Your Novel or Memoir

    by Dinty W. Moore ...
    A collection of cures for writer's block, plotting and characterization issues, and other ailments writers face when completing a novel or memoir, prescribed by the director of creative writing at Ohio University.People want to write the book they know is inside of them, but they run into stumbling blocks that trouble everyone from beginners to seasoned writers. Drawing on his years of teaching at ... Read more

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  • Making Shapely Fiction

    by Jerome Stern ...
    A deft analysis and appreciation of fiction—what makes it work and what can make it fail.Here is a book about the craft of writing fiction that is thoroughly useful from the first to the last page—whether the reader is a beginner, a seasoned writer, or a teacher of writing. You will see how a work takes form and shape once you grasp the principles of momentum, tension, and immediacy. "Tension," ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Creating Characters

    How to Build Story People

    by Dwight V. Swain ...
    A jargon-free manual on the basics of developing interesting fictional charactersVibrant, believable characters help drive a fictional story. Along with a clever plot, well-drawn characters make us want to continue reading a novel or finish watching a movie. In Creating Characters, Dwight V. Swain shows how writers can invent interesting characters and improve them so that they move a story along. ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Corpses, Fools and Monsters

    The History and Future of Transness in Cinema

    by Willow Maclay, Caden Gardner ...
    A radical history of transness in cinema, and an exploration of the political possibilities of its future.In the history of cinema, trans people are usually murdered, made into a joke, or viewed as threats to the normal order — relegated to a lost highway of corpses, fools, and monsters.In this book, trans film critics Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay take the reader on a drive down ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Perplexing Plots

    Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder

    by David Bordwell ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Nominated, 2024 Edgar Allan Poe Award in the category of best critical/biographical, Mystery Writers of AmericaShortlisted, 2024 Agatha Awards - Best Mystery Nonfiction, Malice DomesticPosthumous Winner - 2023 IFCA Book Prize, International Crime Fiction AssociationNarrative innovation is typically seen as the domain of the avant-garde. However, techniques such as nonlinear timelines, multiple ... Read more

    $27.29 USD

  • Elements of Surprise

    Our Mental Limits and the Satisfactions of Plot

    by Vera Tobin ...
    Why do some surprises delight—the endings of Agatha Christie novels, films like The Sixth Sense, the flash awareness that Pip’s benefactor is not (and never was!) Miss Havisham? Writing at the intersection of cognitive science and narrative pleasure, Vera Tobin explains how our brains conspire with stories to produce those revelatory plots that define a “well-made surprise.”By tracing the ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock

    Edited by Thomas Leitch, Leland Poague ...
    The most comprehensive volume ever published on Alfred Hitchcock, covering his career and legacy as well as the broader cultural and intellectual contexts of his work.Contains thirty chapters by the leading Hitchcock scholarsCovers his long career, from his earliest contributions to other directors’ silent films to his last uncompleted last filmDetails the enduring legacy he left to filmmakers and ... Read more

    $46.00 USD