For the hundreds of thousands who buy writers’ guides every year, at last there’s one that tells the ugly truth: writers who can’t get published are usually making a lot of mistakes. This honest, often funny, book shows them how to identify their own missteps, stop listening to bad advice, and get to work. Drawing on his experience as founding editor of MacAdam/Cage, Pat Walsh gives writers what they need—specific, straightforward feedback to help them overcome bad habits and bad luck. He avoids the optimistic, sometimes misleading directions often found in publishing how-to books and presents the industry as it is, warts and all. Here is the first guide that tells writers just what the odds against them are and gives them practical tips for evening them.

78 Reasons Why Your Book May Never Be Published and 14 Reasons Why It Just Might

Literature & Fiction

Walsh, Pat

Short Stories & Anthologies

Penguin Publishing Group

78 Reasons Why Your Book May Never Be Published 6-copy counter

Penguin (Non-Classics)

This work describes and critically assesses the merits of the new model of public management in New Zealand. It examines the model's theoretical origins and identifies the administrative principles and doctrines upon which it is based. It also explores how the new model operates in practice, how its outcomes compare with those intended, and what impact it has had, both positive and negative, on the governance of New Zealand.

Public Management: The New Zealand Model

Politics & Social Sciences

Boston, Jonathan

Pallot, June

Martin,John.

Politics & Government

Oxford University Press

A former editor embarks on an entertaining odyssey through the world of high-stakes poker, from an introduction to the online game, through the learning process with games in church basements and backrooms of a bar, to the hallowed halls of Las Vegas poker rooms. Original. 35,000 first printing.

How to Win the World Series of Poker (or Not): An All-American Tale

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Plume

A buried angel! When a hobgoblin confesses the horrible secret of Crowfield Abbey to the monks' apprentice, the boy is drawn into a haunting medieval mystery and a world of Old Magic. An angel is buried behind the abbey! It's 1347, and Will, an orphan boy, lives and works as an apprentice of the Crowfield monks. Sent into the forest to gather firewood, he stumbles across a trapped, wounded creature no bigger than a cat.The little goblin shares a terrible secret: Buried deep in the snow behind the monastery is an angel. But, Will wonders, how can an angel die? And what does this angel have to do with the history of Crowfield? When two cloaked strangers show up and start asking questions, Will is drawn into a dangerous world of Old Magic.

The Crowfield Curse

Children's Books

Chicken House

*"A wondrous mystery." --Kirkus, starred review *"Suspenseful and spooky...with an edgy battle between good and evil." --School Library Journal, starred review If the deepest secret has been spoken, can the deadliest curse be broken? Sent into the forest to gather firewood for the medieval abbey where he's an apprentice, Will hears a cry for help, and comes upon a creature no bigger than a cat. Trapped and wounded, it's a hobgoblin, who confesses a horrible secret: Something is buried deep in the snow, just beyond the graveyard. A mythical being, doomed by an ancient curse... What does this mystery have to do with the cryptic brotherhood of monks Will serves? What does it have to do with the boy himself? When two cloaked figures darken the church's doorway and start demanding answers, Will is drawn into a dangerous world of Old Magic. *Includes a timetable of daily life in the abbey, a glossary of monastic terms, and a sneak peek at the chilling sequel THE CROWFIELD DEMON! New York Public Library "100 Best Books for Reading and Sharing" A 2011 USBBY Outstanding International Book Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award

The chilling sequel to the critically acclaimed CROWFIELD CURSE. In THE CROWFIELD CURSE, young monks' apprentice Will learned he was gifted with the Sight: able to see beyond this mortal coil into the spirit realms of Old Magic. Protected by the warrior fay Shadlok -- and befriended by the wry, wary hobgoblin called Brother Walter -- the boy is just coming into his strange powers. But now, from its very foundations, Crowfield Abbey has begun to crumble. As Will slaves to salvage the chapel, he discovers something truly terrifying. A heathen creature from a pagan past is creeping up through the rubble -- avowed to unleash havoc on holy ground!

The Crowfield Demon (Crowfield Curse)

if the deepest secret has been spoken....can the deadliest curse be broken

scholastic

The Crowfield Curse (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Turtleback Books

Fore edge is stained and has bled onto page edges a bit, not aaffecting text. A good clean copy with strong binding.

Forgotten Aspects of Ireland's Great War on Turkey

Athol Books

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78 Reasons Why Your Book May Never Be Published and 14 Reasons Why It Just Might

78 Reasons Why Your Book May Never Be Published 6-copy counter

Public Management: The New Zealand Model

How to Win the World Series of Poker (or Not): An All-American Tale

The Crowfield Curse

The Crowfield Curse

The Crowfield Demon (Crowfield Curse)

The Crowfield Curse

The Crowfield Curse (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Forgotten Aspects of Ireland's Great War on Turkey