A fun-to-read guide that teaches writers how to construct graceful, concise sentences with flair.

Championship Writing: 50 Ways to Improve Your Writing

Reference

LaRocque, Paula

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Marion Street Press, LLC

Teaches the elements of good writing through the use of essential guidelines, literary techniques, and proper writing mechanics.

The Book on Writing: The Ultimate Guide to Writing Well

Literature & Fiction

You’re going to love the way Paula LaRocque teaches in The Book on Writing. A celebrated writing coach with a sense of humor and a gentle touch, she’s also a master writer herself with a long and distinguished career in both teaching and practicing the art of writing. The Book on Writing contains 25 chapters in three sections: • A dozen essential but easy-to-apply guidelines to good writing, from the importance of clarity to the value of a conversational tone. Paula LaRocque believes learning is easier and more successful when we are not only told but also shown. So her Book on Writing is chockfull of actual writing examples that supplement and illustrate principles that apply as naturally to fiction as they do to nonfiction. • How to tell a story—from building suspense, to effective description, to the uses of metaphor and literary devices. Paula LaRocque also deals with the narrative “engine” and the value of the archetype in plotting and characterization—as well as with pace and speed and leveling what she terms writing’s “speedbumps.” • A clear and concise handbook that deals with common problems in grammar, usage, punctuation, and style—the kind of problems that often trouble even wordsmiths. The handbook also debunks pesky language “rules” that are actually myths. The Book on Writing is one-stop shopping for writers. Read it once, and you’ll be a better writer. Read it often, and you’ll be among the best.

Words, Language & Grammar

Grey and Guvnor Press

CHALK LINE A Ben Gallagher Mystery Detective Ben Gallagher has waited a decade for his only brother to be paroled from prison. Only then, he believes, will his fractured family be mended. But on that long-awaited day, Ben is instead plunged into trauma. A murder investigation forces him to choose between the law he reveres and the family he loves. With his loyalties divided and just one heart-pounding step from the wrong side of the law, Ben rushes headlong into the forbidden territory of family secrets and into the shock of his life. Early reviewers call Chalk Line absorbing, captivating, ingeniously plotted, and guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat. It's also, says the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, a completely different kind of mystery.

Chalk Line: A Ben Gallagher Mystery

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Grey & Guvnor Press

From pesky pronouns and preferred pronunciations to the common media mistakes that mar the language, this offbeat romp provides humor and insight into the aspects and words of the English language that make it come to life. Five sections, each dealing with a broad area of language and word usage, present interesting etymologies, the effects words have on our lives, and how language reflects one’s personality. Word and language lovers will take delight in the "Words and the Calendar" section, which analyzes the many words relating to days, months, and time in general. The "Words on Words" section will also have readers laughing at the hilarious chapter on the many words and metaphors encompassing the word "foot," from "put your foot in your mouth" to "footlights."

On Words: Insights into How Our Words Work-And Don't

Chief of Detectives Ben Gallagher thinks life will once again be rosy when his younger brother Andrew is released from prison. But, on the very day Andrew is set free, the brothers discover the body of a lifelong friend, and the murder launches Ben on a fast slide from his revered rule of law. He is soon ordered to stay away from the case, but the closer he gets, the surer he becomes that a family member is somehow implicated. Torn between loyalties, he embarks on a race that takes him thousands of miles and a couple of decades away, leading to a cold case in the north—and a killer no one would ever suspect.

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Championship Writing: 50 Ways to Improve Your Writing

The Book on Writing: The Ultimate Guide to Writing Well

The Book on Writing: The Ultimate Guide to Writing Well

Chalk Line: A Ben Gallagher Mystery

On Words: Insights into How Our Words Work-And Don't

Chalk Line: A Ben Gallagher Mystery