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Writers' Bookshelf

We invite author-reviewers to recommend their favourite books for writers.

These books can help you with your writing and provide assistance with getting published.  The detailed reviews give a clear idea of the content of the books to allow you to assess whether they're what you need. You can order them through our new WritersBookstall, where they are listed along with over a hundred other carefully-classified books.

Maureen Kincaid Speller, freelance editor, reviewer, writer and former librarian, is our first reviewer. Her views are her own and she is completely independent of WritersServices.

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Chris Holifield has reviewed:

  1. How to Write a Blockbuster and make £millions by Sarah Harrison, 

  2. Research for Writers by Ann Hoffmann, 

  3. Writing a Novel by John Braine

  4. Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers by Harold Evans.

  5. Fiction Writer’s Workshop by Josip Novakovich

  6. How to Make Money from Freelance Writing by Andrew Crofts

  7. Story: Substance, structure, style and the principles of screenwriting by Robert McKee
  8. Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors edited by R M Ritter
  9. The Oxford Guide to Style edited by R M Ritter
  10. The Creative Writing Coursebook by Julia Bell and Paul Magrstd
  11. The Forest for the Trees by Betsy Lerner
  12. How to Write a Damned Good Novel by James L Frey
  13. Solutions for Writers by Sol Stein
  14. The Joy of Writing Sex by Elizabeth Benedict
  15. The Writer’s Handbook Guide to Writing for Stage and Screen
     edited by Barry Turner
  16. The Writer's Handbook Guide to Crime Writing edited by Barry Turner
  17. Screenwriting by Raymond Frensham
  18. The Truth about Writing by Michael Allen
     

 

  1. Quotations for our Time compiled by Dr Laurence Peter
  2. Inside Book Publishing     by Giles Clark

If you want to order any of these titles, WritersServices' partner Amazon can deliver them to you speedily.

Writers' Software

A new section which provides a round-up of software which is useful for writers, including software which helps with the plotting, specialist tools, business and freebies.

Script-writing Software

A look at what is available on the market and where you can find it on the web.

newnovelist

A new software package which will help you get down to writing your novel: 'after describing the characters, the places and setting you have a wonderfully clear and detailed outline'.

Writer's Blocks

'an excellent tool for organising plot lines. It will also appeal to those assembling any work of non-fiction which requires meticulous organisation.'

 

  

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