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The AW Hostage Crisis has been Boing-Boinged.

Also, please let me direct your attention to Making Light's recent update, and link round-up. Our good friend Dawno is, as always, about two steps ahead of me, too. There's also the Random Acts of Kindness approach.

A friend of mine just emailed me to say, "Barbara Bauer and her nineteen friends must be puking a lot these last few days."

We can only hope. You can help, personally, by clicking the paypal button at the bottom of this post, or else spread the word. Feel free to email me if you need help with code for either of the buttons--there's a link to contact me directly, to the right and towards the top, on the sidebar.

Neasa from Stones' comments has taken up the cause, too. She's put the AW button on her blog and is helping spread the word to non-writers--thank you, Neasa! (She's got a cool and beautiful blog, too--go and look. You won't be sorry. And she's a bellydancer.)

Also, I'll be posting this on my regular domain for easy linkage, later--but don't miss this.
Jim Macdonald--Yog Sysop, for you sff.net regulars and Usenet veterans--has done an amazing and generous thing and assembled this list:

Books for Writers

• Getting It Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books by William Germano
• The Craft of Research, 2nd edition by Wayne C. Booth, Joseph M. Williams, & Gregory G. Colomb
• An Author's Guide to Scholarly Publishing (Princeton Paperbacks) by Robin Derricourt
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
• Getting Permission: How To License & Clear Copyrighted Materials Online & Off by Richard Stim
• On Writing by Stephen King
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Self-Publishing by Jennifer Basye Sander
• The Business of Writing for Children by Aaron Shepard
• Conflict, Action and Suspense (Elements of Fiction Writing) by William Noble
• The Concise Guide to Copy Editing by Paul LaRocque
• Garner's Modern American Usage by Bryan A. Garner
• Dreams and Wishes: Essays on Writing for Children by Karen Judd
• Editing Fact and Fiction: A Concise Guide to Book Editing by Leslie T. Sharpe & Irene Gunther
• Characters and Viewpoint (Elements of Fiction Writing) by Orson Scott Card
• Conceiving the Heavens: Creating the Science Fiction Novel by Melissa Scott
• Creating Short Fiction by Damon Knight
• The Chicago Manual of Style: The Essential Guide for Writers, Editors, and Publishers (15th Edition) by University of Chicago Press Staff
• Elements of Style (4th ed.) by William Strunk and E. B. White
• The Writer's Legal Guide: An Authors Guild Desk Reference by Tad Crawford and Kay Murray
• Word Work: Surviving and Thriving as a Writer by Bruce Holland Rogers
• Getting into Print: The Decision-Making Process in Scholarly Publishing by Walter W. Powell
• Writing for Scholarly Publication by Anne Sigismund Huff
• How I Work As a Poet and Other Essays by Lew Welch
• How to Get Happily Published (5th Ed) by Judith Appelbaum
• You Can Write Children's Books by Tracey E. Dils
• How to Write & Sell Your First Novel by Oscar Collier, Frances Spatz Leighton
• The Screenwriter's Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script by David Trottier
• Beginnings, Middles & Ends by Nancy Kress
• Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular by L. Rust Hills
• Copyright Plain & Simple by Cheryl Besenjak
• If You Want to Write: A Book About Art, Independence and Spirit by Brenda Ueland
• Line by Line: How to Improve Your Own Writing by Claire Kehrwald Cook
• The Making of a Bestseller : Success Stories from Authors and the Editors, Agents, and Booksellers Behind Them by Brian Hill & Dee Power
• Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass
• Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (11th Edition)
• On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Knowlton Zinsser
• Persist and Publish: Helpful Hints for Academic Writing and Publishing by Ralph E. Matkin, T.F. Riggar
• Proofreading Plain and Simple (Plain and Simple Series) by Debra Hart May
• Putting It Together: Turning Sow's Ear Drafts Into Silk Purse Stories by Mike Resnick
• The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile by Noah Lukeman
• Techniques of the Selling Writer by Dwight V. Swain
• On Becoming a Novelist by John Gardner & Raymond Carver
• The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life by Julia Cameron
• The Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus by Christine Lindberg
• How to Write a Damn Good Novel by James Frey
• Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writer's Manual by Rita Mae Brown
• Words into Type by Marjorie E. Skillin
• How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy by Orson Scott Card
• The Essential Writer's Notebook by Natalie Goldberg
• Writing Without Teachers by Peter Elbow
• The Craft of Revision by Donald M. Murray
  • Writers' and Artists' Yearbook: 2006 by Terry Pratchett (Editor)
  • The Writer's Handbook: 2006 by Barry Turner (Editor)
  • Literary Market Place 2006: The Directory of the American Book Publishing Industry (LMP) R. R. Bowker
  • 2006 Poet's Market by Nancy Breen (Editor)
  • 2006 Writer's Market by Katie Struckel Brogan (Editor)
  • Jeff Herman's Guide To Book Publishers, Editors & Literary Agents, 2006 (Jeff Herman, editor)
  • 2006 Novel & Short Story Writer's Market by Lauren Mosko (Editor)
  • 2006 Childrens Writers & Illustrators Market by Alice Pope (Editor)

Book sales from this page will help support Absolute Write and the Absolute Write Water Cooler

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