Sixteen-year-old Tessa Johnson has never felt like the protagonist in her own life. She's rarely seen herself reflected in the pages of the romance novels she loves. The only place she's a true leading lady is in her own writing--in the swoony love stories she shares only with Caroline, her best friend and #1 devoted reader. When Tessa is accepted into the creative writing program of a prestigious art school, she's excited to finally let her stories...

A cumulative rhyme summarizes the life's work of renowned Mexican potter, Juan Quezada. Additional information describes the process he uses to create his pots after the style of the Casas Grandes people.

"From Where You Dream reimagines the process of writing as emotional rather than intellectual, and tells writers how to achieve the dreamspace necessary for composing honest, inspired fiction. Proposing fiction as the exploration of the human condition, with yearning as its compass, Butler reinterprets the traditional tools of the craft using the dynamics of desire. He offers insights into the nature of voice. He compares fiction to cinema, to be...

"As Serious Eats's culinary nerd-in-residence, J. Kenji LÃçpez-Alt has pondered [how to pan-fry a steak with a charred crust and an interior that's perfectly medium-rare from edge to edge when you cut into it] and more. In [this book], Kenji focuses on the science behind beloved American dishes, delving into the interactions between heat, energy, and molecules that create great food. Kenji shows that often, conventional methods don't work that well,...

"They say writing is rewriting. So why does the second part get such short shrift? [This book] will guide you through every step of the novel writing process, from getting started on those first pages to the last tips for making your final draft even tighter and stronger. From lauded writer and teacher Matt Bell, [This book] is encouraging and intensely practical, focusing always on specific rewriting tasks, techniques, and activities for every stage...

In Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve, statistician and journalist Ben Blatt brings big data to the literary canon, exploring the wealth of fun findings that remain hidden in the works of the world's greatest writers. He assembles a database of thousands of books and hundreds of millions of words, and starts asking the questions that have intrigued curious word nerds and book lovers for generations: What are our favorite authors' favorite words? Do...

Discusses and analyzes twenty plots that recur throughout all genres of fiction; and provides information for writers on how to develop the plots for use in their own stories.

Relaxation has a profound effect on health, but the more you try to force it, the harder it is. On Relax Rx: A Self-Hypnosis Program for Health and Well-Being, hypnosis and mind-body medicine expert Dr. Steven Gurgevich gives us his effortless drug-free prescription for relaxation: a clinically designed audio program of guided trancework sessions that are medically proven to reduce physical tension, relieve anxiety, and create inner calm-in just 10...