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Writing 21st Century Fiction: High-Impact Techniques for Exceptional Storytelling Capture the minds, hearts, and imaginations of 21st century readers Whether you're a commercial storyteller or a literary novelist, whether your goal is to write a best-selling novel or captivate readers with a satisfying, beautifully written story, the key to success is the same: high-impact fiction. "Writing 21st Century Fiction" will help you write a novel for today's readers and market, filled with rich characters, compelling plots, and resonant themes. Author and literary agent Donald Maass shows you how to: Create fiction that transcends genre, conjures characters who look and feel more "real" than real people, and shows readers the work around them in new ways. Infuse every page with an electric current of emotional appeal and micro-tension.

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Writing Irresistible Kidlit: The Ultimate Guide to Crafting Fiction for Young Adult and Middle Grade Readers Captivate the hearts and minds of young adult readers Writing for young adult (YA) and middle grade (MG) audiences isn't just "kid's stuff" anymore-it's kidlit The YA and MG book markets are healthier and more robust than ever, and that means the competition is fiercer, too. In "Writing Irresistible Kidlit," literary agent Mary Kole shares her expertise on writing novels for young adult and middle grade readers and teaches you how to: Recognize the differences between middle grade and young adult audiences and how it impacts your writing. Tailor your manuscript's tone, length, and content to your readership. Avoid common mistakes and cliches that are prevalent in YA and MG fiction, in respect to characters, story ideas, plot structure and more.

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The Fiction of Autobiography: Reading and Writing Identity Writing autobiography is a complicated, often fraught activity for both writer and reader. We can find many recent examples of the way such writing calls into question the author's truthfulness or their authority to present as definitive their 'version' of a particular event or portion of their lives. Drawing upon a wide range of late twentieth and early twenty-first-century autobiographical writing, "The Fiction of Autobiography" examines key aspects of autobiography from the interrelated perspectives of author, reader, critic and scholar, to reconsider how we view this form of writing, and its relationship to the way we understand and construct identity. Maftei considers recent cases and texts such as Didion's "The Year of Magical Thinking" and Frey's "A Million Little Pieces "alongside older texts such as Proust's "In Search of Lost Time," Nabokov's "Speak, Memory "and Stein's "The Autobiography of Alice B.

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The 'Invisible Hand' and British Fiction, 1818-1860: Adam Smith, Political Economy, and the Genre of Realism The "invisible hand," Adam Smith's metaphor for the morality of capitalism, is explored in this text as being far more subtle and intricate than is usually understood, with many British realist fiction writers (Austen, Dickens, Gaskell, Eliot) having absorbed his model of ironic causality in complex societies and turned it to their own purposes....

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Dominance in Dogs: Fact or Fiction? You may have read books or seen TV shows that tell you that your dog will seek to dominate you, your family members and other pets unless you become the "alpha" and put him in his place. The theory is that since dogs evolved from wolves and wolves (supposedly) form packs with strict pecking orders and battle each other to become the pack leader, your dog will do the same within your household. In this new US edition, author Barry Eaton separates out the facts from the fiction regarding dominance in pet dogs, presenting the reader with the results of recent research into the behavior of wolves and the impacts of selective breeding on the behavior of dogs. The results may surprise you and will surely inform you.

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	You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself CD/Spoken Word, Hachette Audio, 2013, ISBN13 9781469000732, ISBN10 1469000733.
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	Write in Tune: Contemporary Music in Fiction Paperback, Bloomsbury USA Academic, 2015, ISBN13 9781501315756, ISBN10 1501315757.
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Science Fiction: 101: Exploring the Craft of Science Fiction Before Robert Silverberg won multiple Hugo and Nebula awards and became Grand Master of science fiction, he was a young man learning the art and craft of writing the genre. In "Science Fiction: 101," Silverberg reveals the roots of modern science fiction with thought-provoking essays about some of the field's most groundbreaking stories-included in this volume-which inspired him and taught him to write. These insightful analyses, along with the skills and strategies Silverberg developed to build his successful career, make this an indispensable volume for readers interested in science fiction history. Featuring Thirteen Classic Stories by Brian W.

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Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions In the deft hands of Neil Gaiman, magic is no mere illusion. and anything is possible. In Smoke and Mirrors, Gaiman's imagination and supreme artistry transform a mundane world into a place of terrible wonders-where an old woman can purchase the Holy Grail at a thrift store, where assassins advertise their services in the Yellow Pages under "Pest Control," and where a frightened young boy must barter for his life with a mean-spirited troll living beneath a bridge by the railroad tracks. Explore a new reality, obscured by smoke and darkness yet brilliantly tangible, in this extraordinary collection of short works by a master prestidigitator.

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The Search for Truth About Islam: A Christian Pastor Separates Fact from Fiction Are Muslims infiltrating American society? What does Islam really teach about women's roles? Does the Qur'an condone violence? Presbyterian pastor Ben Daniel tackles common stereotypes and misconceptions that tend to define Islam in the popular imagination. Daniel also looks at Christianity's own history of violence and explores what he calls "the American cult of fear," particularly as it relates to the rise of Islamophobia in the United States. Blending travel narrative, interviews, and well-crafted storytelling, Daniel helps debunk the myths and put a human face on Islam in America..

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Genre Prompting Guide for Fiction Save money when you buy both Genre Prompting Guides together, or the entire Genre Study Suite Bundle Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell's Genre Study Prompting Guide for Fiction and Genre Study Prompting Guide for Nonfiction, Poetry, and Test Taking are comprehensive tools that you can use to explore fiction and nonfiction genres with your students during interactive read-aloud, Reader's workshop, Writer's workshop, guided reading lessons, shared reading, and intervention lessons. The prompts in these ready-reference flip charts are designed to help teachers guide students' inquiry toward explicit understandings of the characteristics of genres. Each prompting guide contains precise language for teaching readers how to focus their thinking and understanding of genres through inquiry. In the Genre Study Prompting Guide for Fiction, Fountas and Pinnell have organized fiction prompts by genre as well as by literary elements and structure.

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Science Fiction Theatre: The Complete Series Let me show you something interestinga/Blending the discoveries of factual science with the limitless frontiers of fantasy, Science Fiction Theatre offered Atomic Age television viewers an intriguing look at the possibilities science could provide us in the near future as well as the immediate present. Airing from 1955 to 1957 and hosted by Truman Bradley, Science Fiction Theatre's seventy-eight episodes presented its intelligent and fantastic stories in an anthology format, pre-dating The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits.Guest stars on this unique program feature a roster of actors well-known to any lover of classic film and television, including DeForest Kelley (Star Trek) , Hugh Beaumont (Leave It To Beaver) , Barbara Hale (Perry Mason) , Gene Barry (The War of the Worlds, Burkeas Law) , Macdonald Carey, Edmund Gwenn (Miracle on 34th Street) , Beverly Garland, Basil Rathbone, June Lockhart (Lost In Space) , and the great Vincent Price.Presented for the first time on DVD, this complete series collection of Science Fiction Theatre is an entertaining look back-and-forward- to the way science shapes our views of the world's potential.

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Cthulhu 2: Comics and Stories of Dark Fiction Terrifying and thought-provoking tales of horror complete this second anthology of chilling graphic fiction stories. Featuring writing and illustrations by some of the freshest talents in Spanish comics, the collection includes such figures as Jose Aviles, Bart Torres, Santi Perez, Angel Rodriguez, Alex Ogalla, and Salvador Lopez-each of whom find their inspiration from H.P. Lovecraft and his famed "Cthulhu Mythos.

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	The Review of Contemporary Fiction: Centenary Essays: Fall 2011 Issues in 2011 will include a special issue on Gilbert Sorrentino s Mulligan Stew, and a celebration of Flann O Brien s centenary, dates TBD....
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Analyzing Digital Fiction Written for and read on a computer screen, digital fiction pursues its verbal, discursive and conceptual complexity through the digital medium. It is fiction whose structure, form and meaning are dictated by the digital context in which it is produced and requires analytical approaches that are sensitive to its status as a digital artifact. "Analyzing Digital Fiction "offers a collection of pioneering analyses based on replicable methodological frameworks. Chapters include analyses of hypertext fiction, Flash fiction, Twitter fiction and videogames with approaches taken from narratology, stylistics, semiotics and ludology.

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Graham Greene: Fictions, Faith and Authorship In this significant rereading of Graham Greene's writing career, Michael Brennan explores the impact of major issues of Catholic faith and doubt on his work, particularly in relation to his portrayal of secular love and physical desire, and examines the religious and secular issues and plots involving trust, betrayal, love and despair. Although Greene's female characters have often been underestimated, Brennan argues that while sometimes abstract, symbolic and two-dimensional, these figures often prove central to an understanding of the moral, personal and spiritual dilemmas of his male characters. Finally, he reveals how Greene was one of the most generically ambitious writers of the twentieth century, experimenting with established forms but also believing that the career of a successful novelist should incorporate a great diversity of other categories of writing. Offering a new and original perspective on the reading of Greene's literary works and their importance to English twentieth-century fiction, this will be of interest to anyone studying Greene.

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Sacred Space: The Quest for Transcendence in Science Fiction Film and Television As humans, it is our trust in something larger than ourselves that invests our lives with meaning and value. We hope that outside the boundaries of everyday living there lies something greater. As Doug Cowan argues, science fiction is the genre of possibility and hope, a principal canvas on which writers, artists, and filmmakers have sketched their visions of this transcendent potential for generations. In Sacred Space, he leads readers in a compelling exploration of how this transcendence is manifested in science-fiction cinema and television of today.

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Science Fiction Film: A Critical Introduction Science Fiction Film" develops a historical and cultural approach to the genre that moves beyond close readings of iconography and formal conventions. It explores how this increasingly influential genre has been constructed from disparate elements into a hybrid genre. Going beyond a textual exploration of these films, this study places them within a larger network of influences that includes studio politics and promotional discourses. The book also challenges the perceived limits of the genre - it includes a wide range of films, from canonical SF, such as Le "voyage dans la lune," "Star Wars" and "Blade Runner," to films that stretch and reshape the definition of the genre.

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Keep Watching the Skies!: American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties: The 21st Century Edition Long recognized as the definitive reference work on the hundreds of science fiction movies that from 1950 through 1962 terrified and fascinated a generation with zombified teenagers, robots, invading aliens and monsters of every kind, Bill Warren's Keep Watching the Skies is greatly expanded in this 21st Century Edition. With new entries on several films, it also revisits, revises and expands the commentary on every film in the 1982 and 1986 two-volume edition. In addition to a detailed plot synopsis, cast and credit listings, and an overview of each film's critical reception, Warren delivers richly informative assessments of the films and a wealth of insights and anecdotes about their making, often drawing on remarks by the filmmakers that have emerged in the quarter century since the original edition. The book is arranged by film title, contains 273 photographs (many rare, some in color) , has seven useful appendices, and concludes with an enormous index.

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Modernizing George Eliot: Essays on Her Fiction and Other Writings George Eliot's work has been subject to a wide range of critical questioning, but most of her critics relate her substantially to a Victorian context and intellectual framework. This book seeks to demonstrate that more thany any of her Victorian contemporaries she anticipates significant aspects of writing in the twentieth and indeed twenty-first century in regard to both art and philosophy. Although rightly associated with "realism" her concept of the real is philosophically informed and her writing is also highly allusive. This new book presents a series of linked essays exploring Eliot's credentials as a radical thinker and her engagement with political and ethical issues.

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Favorite Science Fiction Stories The fifth set of Favorite Science Fiction stories contains the following titles: "The Skull" by Philip K. Dick, "Sam, This is You" by Murray Leinster, "Manners of the Age" by Horace Brown Fyfe, "Omnilingual" by H. Beam Piper, "Heist Job on Thizar" by Randall Garrett, "The Yillian Way" by Keith Laumer, "The Ultimate Vice" by A. Bertram Chandler, "Backlash" by Winston Marks, "Adolescents Only" by Irving Cox, Jr, "Project Mastodon" by Clifford Simak, "Sargasso of Lost Starships" by Poul Anderson, "The Dictator" by Milton Lesser, "The Misplaced Battleship" by Harry Harrison, "A Pail of Air" by Fritz Leiber, "The Vilbar Party" by Evelyn E.

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	Dismembering the American Dream: The Life and Fiction of Richard Yates A detailed study of Yates's novels and stories".
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Visions of Tomorrow: Science Fiction Predictions That Came True A fascinating collection of fiction-turned-reality tales. Long before movies like Minority Report and The Matrix, the world s writers have been recording the future as it might exist and as it turns out, they were right. This bizarre anthology collects the most stunning predictions and imagined inventions here for the first time. Visions of Tomorrow includes The Land Iron Clads by H.

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Western Avenue and Other Fictions In these engaging and often gripping short stories, Fred Arroyo takes us into the lives of working-class Hispanic migrants and immigrants, who are often invisible while they work in plain sight across America. As characters intertwine and evolve across stories, Arroyo creates a larger narrative that dramatizes the choices we make to create identity, make meaning, and deal with hardships and loss. His stories are linked by a concern with borders, both real and imagined, and the power that memory and imagination have to shape and structure our lives. Through his characters and their true-to-life situations, Arroyo makes visible both internal and external conflicts that are deeply rooted in and affected by place.

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Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction, and Folklore Among the monsters said to roam the world's jungles and desolate deserts, none is more feared than the chupacabra-the blood-sucking beast blamed for the mysterious deaths of thousands of animals since the 1990s. To some it is a joke; to many it is a very real threat and even a harbinger of the apocalypse. Originating in Latin America yet known worldwide, the chupacabra is a contradictory and bizarre blend of vampire and shapeshifter, changing its appearance and characteristics depending on when and where it is seen. Rooted in conspiracy theory and anti-American sentiment, the beast is said to be the result of Frankenstein-like secret U.

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	Writing Fiction: First Chapters and a Query OnDemand Webinar Learn how to get an agent's attention in a query....
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	Elements of Fiction Value Pack This trio pack contains three books that will take your book to the next level from beginning to end. The Elements of Fiction Writing series includes Beginnings, Middles and Ends, Conflict and Suspense and Characters & Viewpoint...
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Best African American Fiction 2010 Bursting with energy and innovation, the second volume in the annual anthology collects the year's best short stories by African American authors. Dealing with all aspects of life from the pain of war to the warmth of family, the superb tales in Best African American Fiction 2010 are a tribute to the stunning imaginations thriving in today's African American literary community. Chosen by this year's guest editor, the legendary Nikki Giovanni, these works delve into international politics and personal histories, the clash of armies and of generations-and come from such publications as The New Yorker, Harper's, The Kenyon Review, and Callaloo. In "Ghosts," Edwidge Danticat portrays an aspiring radio talk show host in Bel Air-which some call the Baghdad of Haiti-who is brutally scapegoated, and in "Three Letters, One Song & a Refrain," Chris Abani gives a searing account of the violent life of a thirteen-year-old member of a Burmese hill tribe.

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	The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Fall 2012: Future of British Fiction Paperback, W W Norton & Co Inc, 2013, ISBN13 9781564788924, ISBN10 156478892X.
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	Starboard Wine: More Notes on the Language of Science Fiction Paperback, Univ Pr of New England, 2012, ISBN13 9780819568847, ISBN10 0819568848.
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	Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Presents Flush Fiction: 88 Short-Short Stories You Can Read in a Single Sitting Paperback, Baker & Taylor Pub, 2012, ISBN13 9781607104278, ISBN10 160710427X.
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	Writing from deeper within: Advanced Steps in Writing Fiction and Life Stories Paperback, Pgw, 2013, ISBN13 9780897936477, ISBN10 0897936477.
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	Vivid & Continuous: Essays and Exercises for Writing Fiction VIVID & CONTINUOUS.
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	Women and Exile in Contemporary Irish Fiction Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, ISBN13 9780230285767, ISBN10 0230285767.
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	Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc, 2001, ISBN13 9780404189303, ISBN10 040418930X.
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Passion of the Reel: Cinematic versus Modernist Political Fictions in Cameroon Highlighting the challenges faced by a nascent national cinema with limited resources, "Passion of the Reel "provides an in-depth analysis of the output of the Cameroonian film industry. Jean-Olivier Tchouaffe shows that, far from an empty receptacle for colonial legacies, Cameroon-and Africa-must move beyond their colonial legacies to focus on indigenous productions of meaning informed by traditional wisdom and ordinary Cameroonian life experience. Tchouaffe's analysis sets the stage for a film-driven exploration of postcolonialism, social construction, and modernization..

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	The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of Science Fiction Feminisms THE SECRET FEMINIST CABAL.
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	The Future Is Not Ours: New Latin American Fiction Paperback, Univ of Nebraska Pr, 2012, ISBN13 9781934824641, ISBN10 193482464X.
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	Finding Your Writer's Voice: A Guide to Creative Fiction Thaisa Frank, Dorothy Wall Paperback No. Of Pages: 256 Pages Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Publishing Date: December 15, 1996..
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	Writing Young Adult Fiction for Dummies Deborah Halverson Paperback Publishing Date: July 5, 2011 ISBN -13: 978-0470949542 Publisher: For Dummies.
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	Writing from Deeper Within: Advanced Steps in Writing Fiction and Life Stories Publisher: Hunter House Author Name: Bernard Selling Publishing Date: December 25, 2012.
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	Writing the Fiction Series Karen S. Wiesner Paperback Publisher: Writers Digest Language: English ISBN -10: 1599636905.
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	Writing 21st Century Fiction Donald Maass Paperback ISBN -13: 978-1599634005 No. Of Pages: 224 Pages Publishing Date: October 16, 2012...
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	What Are Fiction Genres? Author: Bodden, Valerie HARD COVER BOOKS (32 pages) Publisher: Lerner Publications, September 2014.
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The Language of Fiction: A Writer's Stylebook Grand themes and complex plots are just the beginning of a great piece of fiction. Mastering the nuts and bolts of grammar and prose mechanics is also an essential part of becoming a literary artist. This indispensable guide, created just for writers of fiction, will show you how to take your writing to the next level by exploring the finer points of language. Funny, readable, and wise, this book explores the tools of the fiction writer's trade, from verb tenses to pronouns to commas and beyond.

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