Language Arts eBooks

(NON-FICTION) No one book can teach a person everything they need to know about the art and craft of writing. Bestselling author Tymber Dalton uses her trademark snark to walk you through what's worked for her in the process of writing, including plotting, tension, characters, dialogue, writing love... More...

How does good writing stand out? If its purpose is to convey facts, findings, or instructions, it need be read only once for its content to be clear. If its purpose is to entertain or to provoke thought, it makes readers want to come back for more. Revised and updated, this guide covers four essenti... More...

(NON-FICTION) Congratulations, your book is published! Now what? Author Tymber Dalton walks you through quick, easy, and best of all, cheap ways to promote your book. You don't think you have time to fit self-promotion into your busy schedule? You hate doing self-promotion? With these easy tips, you... More...

A working writer for more than 20 years, with many books, short stories, and articles published, award-winning author Laura Resnick has frequently written the wacky, stark, insane, improbable truth about the working life of a novelist for the country's top publishing trade journals. This book is a c... More...

The all-inclusive guide for novel writers If you're serious about making your fiction vibrant, engaging, and marketable, you've found the right book. The Breakout Novelist gives you the craft and business know-how you need to make your book stand out. Inside, veteran agent, Donald Maass brings... More...

The idea of soliciting input, whether from customers, associates or the general public, is hardly new. Yet crowdsourcing (the soliciting of collective wisdom) is a relatively new term which has quickly become an important business concept. The spike in the ability to crowdsource, driven by web techn... More...

Kerr definiert den Begriff Satire in seinem Werk 'Die Diktatur des Hausknechts' gleich selbst: 'Die Satire soll, [...] scharf treffen; belichten; vergegenwärtigen; ? und Menschen beglücken: durch Wahrheitskraft; durch Abbildung der Unanständigkeit; durch verschärfte Wiedergabe des Seienden. Durc... More...

Bei der Auseinandersetzung mit Georg Büchners Lenz, wird bei genauer Betrachtung ein gewisser theologischer Aspekt innerhalb der Geschichte sichtbar, welcher in diese eingeflochten ist. Er dokumentiert in z.T. dramatischer Art und Weise die religiöse Entwicklung und den Wandel Lenz´ von einem sic... More...

Jeder hat schon einmal in irgendeiner Form eine Reise angetreten, sei es eine Erholungsreise, eine Abenteuerreise, eine Pilgerreise oder eine Bildungsreise. Die wachsende Tourismusbranche zeigt, dass die Zahl der Reisenden (oft zu immer exotischeren Zielen) Jahr für Jahr zunimmt. Warum birgt die Vo... More...

If you look at a list showing the most important English poets in 20th century literature, Charles Tomlinson is often one of the persons you will miss, or at least, only find in the background. Instead, the list is fixed on poets like Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin or Seamus Heaney. This has got several ... More...