Resource Library

The Craft of Writing | The Business of Writing & Authorship | Editing | Language & Grammar

Books

The Hero with 1000 Faces
by Joseph Campbell 

The Artful Edit
by Susan Bell

The Story Grid
by Sean Coyle

The Story Microscope
by Kimberly Kessler

Conventions & Obligatory Moments
by Kimberly Kessler & Leslie Watts

Craft in the Real World
by Matthew Salesses

The Art of Language Invention
by David J. Peterson

Three Story Method
by J. Thorn & Zach Bohannon

Wired for Story
by Lisa Cronin

Story Genius
by Lisa Cronin

Trope-ing the Light Fantastic: The Science Behind the Fiction
by Edward M. Lerner

Structuring Your Novel
by K.M. Weiland

Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction
by Orson Scott Card, Philip Athans & Jay Lake

Putting the Science in Fiction
by Dan Kobolot

Mastering the Craft: Fantasy Storytelling
by Hose Okiiss

On Writing & Worldbuilding (2 Volumes)
by Tim Hickman

The Complete Guide to Writing Fantasy (3 Volumes)
edited by Tom Dullemond, Tee Morris, Lai Zhao & Valerie Griswold-Ford

Writing Monsters
by Philip Athans

Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly
by Gail Carson Levine

Developmental Editing
by Scott Norton

Creating Character Arcs
K.M. Weiland

The Virgin’s Promise
by Kate Hudson

The First Five Pages
Noah Lukeman

Buffy & the Heroine’s Journey
by Valerie Estelle Frankel

The Anatomy of Prose
by Sacha Black

The Emotional Craft of Fiction
Donald Maass

The Writer’s Journey
Christopher Vogler

Save the Cat!
by Blake Snyder

Save the Cat Writes a Novel
by Jessica Brody
How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method
by Randy Ingermanson

To Comma or Not to Comma
by Arlene Miller

Wordslut
by Amanda Montell

Highly Irregular
by Arika Okrent

Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne & Dave King 

The Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition 

The Copyeditor’s Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing & Corporate Communications
by Amy Einsohn 

The Emotion Thesaurus
Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi

The Subversive Copyeditor
by Carol Saller

The Editor’s Lexicon
by Sarah Cypher

Elements of Style
by William Strunk & E.B. White