Writers get stuck, but now they don’t have to stay that way. This creative and comprehensive guide to overcoming writer’s block is chock-full of innovative exercises, anecdotes, and advice from dozens of authors. It also includes practical “life prep” lessons to keep writers from becoming stuck in the first place. It’s indispensable for all working writers—from newbies to pros. Want to get unstuck and stay that way? This book shows you how.

52 Ways to Get Unstuck: Exercises to Break Through Writer's Block

Reference

Mandeville, Chris

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Fear is primal. Instinctive. Unavoidable. And right now, there is something you fear—and you can feel it. Creeping up behind you. Lurking in the darkness that lives under your bed, or in your closet. A nameless dread. In Undercurrents: An Anthology of What Lies Beneath, twenty-three talented authors, including New York Times bestsellers Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta, and Jody Lynn Nye, have stood on the shores of their psyches and looked out over the ocean of possibility and wondered “What lies beneath?” The sea creatures and sea monsters that answered their calls range from a giant kraken that rules the deepest ocean to the smallest puffer fish that creates intricate works of underwater art. Creatures of classic mythology—mermaids, sirens, and sea serpents—swim alongside more unusual beasts—underwater cats and singing whirlpools. These stories dive deep into the fears many of us face, including loss, abandonment, death, and physical, mental, or emotional danger. When the fears we keep buried beneath the surface rise up and threaten to consume, we must make a choice: conquer or be conquered.This anthology is the fourth volume produced by the alumni of the Superstars Writing Seminar, and all royalties benefit the Don Hodge Memorial Scholarship Fund.

Undercurrents: An Anthology of What Lies Beneath

Literature & Fiction

Nye, Jody Lynn

Anderson, Kevin J.

Mangum, Lisa

Barili, Chris

Colter, L. D.

Pletsch, Mary

Johnson, Joy Dawn

Lang, Lauren A.

Short Stories & Anthologies

WordFire Press

15 Stories, 15 Authors\nDown a forgotten hallway lie rooms no one has entered. 
Each room contains a world waiting to be explored. 
Some beautiful and full of wonder, other dark and full of terrors. 
You won't know which until you step inside. 
So take a deep breath, and open the door...\nFeaturing stories by Elmdea Adams, Jen Bair, David Boop, J.T. Evans, Todd Fahnestock, Arlen Feldman, Shannon Fox, Jessica Guernsey, Sam Knight, Chris Mandeville, Kim May, John D. Payne, Wayland Smith, Stephannie Tallent, and Marie Whittaker

Particular Passages

Knight, Sam

Feldman, Arlen

Fahnestock, Todd

Fox, Shannon

Guernsey, Jessica

Bair, Jen

Adams, Elmdea

Boop

Evans, J.T.

Knight Writing Press

Forty-eight years after a catastrophic solar event destroys all life and technology on the planet’s surface, nineteen-year-old Reid Landers lives in the old NORAD facility deep inside Cheyenne Mountain with other descendants of Originals, barely subsisting on canned food and rats. For all they know they are the last hundred souls on Earth...until Reid meets the first stranger he has ever seen, a stranger with a grown apple. This catapults him on a journey to California to find seeds for his people, an adventure fraught with skin-carving pirates, twisted missionaries, and mercenaries on Rollerblades. Even if Reid can outwit the despot leader of “Lost" Angeles and resist the siren’s song of a beautiful con artist, there may not be any seeds left to find. And his people—including the woman he secretly loves—might not take him back.

Seeds: a post-apocalytic adventure

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Parker Hayden Media

Time traveling thieves. A stolen kiss. A wormhole to the heist of the century.Fifteen-year-old Allie Bennett is a con artist, a pickpocket, and on her last chance at an end-of-the-line foster home. On a normal day of ditching school and pulling cons, she learns her mom-who disappeared when she was ten-isn't a crazy, but is actually a time traveler. And Allie's one, too.When Allie is kidnapped by a mean girl who heads a crew of time traveling thieves, she thinks she's hit the jackpot--she gets to travel back to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake to pull the heist of the century and find her mom.Only things don't go quite as planned.It turns out that time travelers are hunted, her crew might be killers, and everyone has a secret agenda. As she races to find her mom, she must stay ahead of the governors who'll do anything to keep her from changing history. She has to pull off the con of her life if she's going to make it out alive.

Quake (In Real Time)

Whisper Mountain Press

Break (In Real Time)

Children's Books

Fifty years after a catastrophic solar event destroys all life and technology on the planet's surface, nineteen-year-old Reid Landers lives in the old NORAD facility deep inside Cheyenne Mountain with other descendants of Originals, barely subsisting on canned food and rats. For all they know they are the last hundred souls on Earth...until Reid meets the first stranger he has ever seen, a stranger with a grown apple. This catapults him on a journey to California to find seeds for his people, an adventure fraught with skin-carving pirates, twisted missionaries, and mercenaries on Rollerblades. Even if Reid can outwit the despot leader of "Lost" Angeles and resist the siren's song of a beautiful con artist, there may not be any seeds left to find. And his people--including the woman he secretly loves--might not take him back.

Seeds: a post-apocalyptic adventure

Oski Becomes a Service Dog

Animals

Independently published

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