The Writing category has 232 audiobooks on Listento.it, with an average listener rating of 4.6★ across 523 ratings. The most-rated is Bird by Bird.
The Dog's Last Walk (and Other Pieces)
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Hilarious, heart-breaking, provocative and affecting, Howard Jacobson's irresistible journalism reveals the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist in all his humanity. From the tiniest absurdities to the most universal joys and desolations, Jacobson writes with a thunder, passion and wit unmatched. Just as did his previous volume, Whatever It Is I Don't Like It, this glorious collection will delight, entertain, challenge and move.
©2017 Howard Jacobson (P)2017 W.F. Howes Ltd
365 to Vision: Modern Writer's Guide
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Are you struggling with creating clear and concise writing daily? Are you not earning enough money through your writing to live a comfortable lifestyle? 365 to Vision: Modern Writer's Guide: How to Produce More Quality Writing in Less Time has the solution. Learn how to regain some time back in your life by doing more quality work in less time and with less stress.
©2020 Ron Lieback (P)2020 Ron Lieback
How to Write, Edit, and Publish Your Memoir: Advice from a Best-Selling Memoirist
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For everyone who's ever wanted to write a memoir but is having trouble starting, finishing, or is stuck somewhere in between. Here's the place to get the answers to your questions (and to the questions you didn't know to ask) in one concise volume.
Learn the ropes from a USA Today, Audible, and five-time Wall Street Journal best-selling memoirist and get tips from six of her friends and colleagues. Jourdan’s trademark blend of wit and wisdom, humor and humanity have earned her high praise from Dolly Parton and Fannie Flagg, as well as major national newspapers, the New York Public Library, Elle, Family Circle Magazine, and put her work at the top of hundreds of lists of best books of the year and funniest books ever.
©2018 Carolyn Jourdan (P)2019 Carolyn Jourdan
Creating Places - The Podcast Transcripts
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Learning to create a unique, immersive place one podcast episode at a time. World building strategist Randy Ellefson turned his successful book series, The Art of World Building, into a popular podcast of the same name, with episodes loosely drawn from each book in the series. Listeners who want a copy, or those who want more details than what’s in volume two, can now benefit from these transcriptions. Creating Places - The Podcast Transcripts; The Art of World Building, Book 5 includes 16 episodes that interweave content from across the series. While covering much of the same material as volume two, Ellefson breaks out in new directions while expanding on how to invent planets, continents, sovereign powers, settlements, history, maps, and more. He also teaches experts and beginners alike how latitude, prevailing winds, and mountains affect climate and where vegetation grows. Learn how long it takes to travel over different terrain types and conditions by horse, wagon, sailing vessels, or even dragons. Build better, faster.
©2019 Randy Ellefson (P)2019 Randy Ellefson
How to Write an Awesome Novel
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Have you always wanted to write a book, but not sure how? Have you got an idea, but you just don’t know what to do with it? Have you tried writing your first draft, but are never happy with what you write? Amazon US and UK best-selling horror and thriller author, Rick Wood, takes you through the process that has seen him publish over 30 books and grew a loyal fanbase to his work. In this book, you will learn: How to use the tropes of genre to create book that will sell How to develop your ideas How to develop your characters How to structure your story How to redraft your novel How to develop your writing skills How to go about getting your work published Want to write an awesome novel? Let this book now and become the writer you know you can be....
©2020 Richard Wood (P)2020 Richard Wood
Business English Writing
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This book provides a structured framework under which business students, business professionals, entrepreneurs, and other professionals can significantly improve their writing skills. Business English Writing helps you clearly say what you want to say and the best way to say it. The chapters of this book will focus on: Employees team building Employees staff motivation Companies start-ups Activities marketing Money Strategies Success Companies trends Activities discussing issues And more The activities and exercises present in the various units seek to stimulate the student not so much in theoretical language learning, but in active communication in English and reflection on the issues of greatest interest for modern businesses. It will be an invaluable resource for your studies and career in business. Scroll to the top of the page and select the Buy Now button
©2020 Masterclass International School (P)2020 Masterclass International School
Writing Historical Fiction
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"Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it." (George Santayana) Writing historical fiction involves more than taking a story and substituting carriages for cars. The historical novelist must do her best to understand the mind-set of the people she writes about, even while she explores the timeless and universal desires common to human beings of every time and place. This book describes historical fiction, tells the writer how to research, construct an authentic historic story world, and make the reader feel as though he or she is in the midst of the action. Short and to the point, Writing Historical Fiction is a practical tool for the historical writer's desktop.
©2014 Angela Hunt (P)2020 Angela E. Hunt
The Successful Novelist
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David Morrell, best-selling author of First Blood, The Brotherhood of the Rose and The Fifth Profession, distills four decades of writing and publishing experience into this single masterwork of advice and instruction for fiction writers looking to make it big in the publishing world. With advice proven to create successful novels, Morrell teaches you everything you need to know about: Plot Character Research Structure ViewpointDescriptionDialogueThe business of publishingAnd much more.
©2008 David Morrell (P)2011 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
The Guide to Publishing Audiobooks
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The Guide to Publishing Audiobooks has everything you need to know to acquire rights, produce, publish, and distribute audiobooks to expand your audience for both fiction and nonfiction, and how you can increase your bottom line in the process. Multiple Grammy Award-winning audiobook producer, director, and attorney Jessica Kaye shares invaluable knowledge. You’ll learn how to evaluate a potential audiobook project, obtain the rights for audio publishing, or self-publish your own audiobook.
This comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide shows you how to create a high-quality production including best practices for effectively working with narrators, producers, directors, engineers and sound editors; choose an appropriate narrator; understand and manage distribution in the digital age.
©2019 Jessica Kaye (P)2019 Jessica Kaye
14 Steps to Self-Publishing a Book
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How do I self-publish my new book? And how much will it cost? Have you ever asked yourself these questions? If so, 14 Steps to Self-Publishing a Book is the perfect audiobook for you! In this concise and award-winning self-publishing guide for aspiring authors, Mike Kowis, Esq., shares his 14-step process to publishing attractive, well-written, and effectively marketed books. Don't worry, it's much easier than you think! In this step-by-step guide, you will learn: Everything you need to know about self-publishing, including advice for editing, designing, distributing, and marketing your book How much this process costs The surprising lessons Mike learned from self-publishing his award-winning debut book This handy book also includes a checklist of the entire 14-step process so you won't miss a single thing!
©2017 Patrick M. Kowis, Jr. (P)2018 Patrick M. Kowis, Jr.
Kindle Kundalini
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Okay, so the Picton publishing empire is more than a little tongue-in-cheek, like most of its books and podcasts, but with the information in this audiobook, some creativity, graft, and good fortune, this time next year you could be a millionaire, Rodders! Step-by-step instructions and secret insider tips to create and sell Kindle books, paperbacks, audiobooks, podcasts, and blogs.
©2017 Tom Picton (P)2018 Tom Picton
Never Say You Can't Survive
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From the internationally best-selling and critically-acclaimed writer Charlie Jane Anders comes Never Say You Can't Survive, a nonfiction manual about writing and life.... A Macmillan Audio production from Tordotcom
©2021 Charlie Jane Anders (P)2021 Macmillan Audio
West of the West
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In the tradition of Didion, Stegner, and McPhee, an intimate portrait of California in flux by the best-selling author of The Dreamt Land, a national best seller that has been named a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and won the California Book Award. Teddy Roosevelt once exclaimed, "When I am in California, I am not in the West. I am west of the West", and in this book, Mark Arax spends four years travelling up and down the Golden State to explore its singular place in the world. This is California beyond the clichés. This is California as only a native son, deep in the dust, could draw it. Compelling, lyrical, and ominous, his new collection finds a different drama rising out of each confounding landscape. "The Summer of the Death of Hilario Guzman" has been praised as a "stunningly intimate" portrait of one immigrant family from Oaxaca, through harrowing border crossings and brutal raisin harvests. Down the road in the "Home Front", right-wing Christians and Jews form a strange pact that tries to silence debate on the War on Terror, and a conflicted father loses not one but two sons in Iraq. "Last Okie in Lamont", the inspiration for the town in the Grapes of Wrath, has but one Okie left, who tells Arax his life story as he drives to a funeral to bury one more Dust Bowl migrant. "Highlands of Humboldt" is a journey to a marijuana-growing capital of the US, where the old hippies are battling the new hippies over "pollution pot" and the local bank collects a mountain of cash each day, much of it redolent of cannabis. Arax pieces together the murder-suicide at the heart of a rotisserie chicken empire in "Legend of Zankou", a story included in the Best American Crime Reporting 2009. And, in the end, he provides a moving epilogue to the murder of his own father, a crime in the California heartland finally solved after 30 years. In the finest tradition of Joan Didion, Arax combines journalism, essay, and memoir to capture social upheaval as well as the sense of being rooted in a community. Piece by piece, the stories become a whole, a stunning panorama of California, and America, in a new century.
©2009 Mark Arax (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing
Build Your Best Writing Life
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Is there a gap between where you are and where you want to be in your writing life? Maybe you have a drawer full of unfinished manuscripts or a story idea you’re struggling to develop. Maybe you’re frustrated with your writing progress or overwhelmed by creative doubt, burnout, or writer’s block. Maybe you just can’t seem to sit down and write. No matter the roadblock standing between you and writing success, here’s the good news: You’re capable of becoming the writer you want to be — and that work can begin today. In this actionable and empowering guide to personal writing success, Kristen Kieffer shares 25 insightful chapters designed to help you: Cultivate confidence in your skills and stories Develop a personal writing habit you can actually sustain Improve your writing ability with tools for intentional growth Discover what you (really) want from your writing life — and how to get it! By the end of Build Your Best Writing Life, you’ll know how to harness the simple techniques that can help you win your inner creative battles, finish projects you can be proud to share with the world, and work with focus to turn your writing dreams into reality.
©2019 Kristen Kieffer (P)2020 Kristen Kieffer
Track Down the Weasel Words
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Suppose you took your car to the mechanic. When you returned, he smiled and said, "I not only replaced your dead battery, but added 250 unnecessary parts!" Just as unnecessary parts can cause a car engine to run badly, they can also clunk around in a piece of writing. Veteran writer Angela Hunt shares tips and strategies to revise and polish your manuscript, from big picture concepts to tiny matters of correct punctuation. Your writing will never be the same after listening to this little book. Enjoy this writing lesson for a fraction of the cost of attending one of Angela's writing classes - your writing will never be the same.
©2013 Angela Hunt (P)2020 Angela Hunt
Writing for Bliss
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Writing for Bliss is most fundamentally about reflection, truth, and freedom. With techniques and prompts for both the seasoned and novice writer, it will lead you to tap into your creativity through storytelling and poetry, examine how life-changing experiences can inspire writing, pursue self-examination and self-discovery through the written word, and understand how published writers have been transformed by writing. "Writing for Bliss is about the profound ways in which we may be transformed in and through the act of writing. I am grateful to Diana Raab for sharing it, and I trust that you will feel the same as you read on. May you savor the journey." (From the foreword by Mark Freeman, PhD) Diana Raab, MFA, PhD, is an award-winning poet, memoirist, speaker, educator, and survivor. She's the author of nine books and more than one thousand articles and poems. She lives in southern California. Learn more at DianaRaab.com.
©2017 Diana Raab (P)2018 Diana Raab
From Story Idea to Reader
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From Story Idea to Reader is an easily accessible guide to writing fiction. Whether you are brushing up on your writing skills or starting out, this book will take you through the whole process from inspiration to conclusion. No matter if you are looking to submit your work for publication, enter a competition, or want to self-publish, this practical guide will help you every step of the way. Between them, Patsy Collins and Rosemary Kind have sold hundreds of short stories, written 16 published books, and produced numerous articles for Writing Magazine and similar publications. They've both judged writing competitions and run workshops, and Rosemary has read and edited thousands of short stories and published dozens of books for other writers. With the information, help and encouragement in this book, you too could see your work in print. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.
©2016 Patsy Collins & Rosemary J. Kind (P)2017 Patsy Collins & Rosemary J. Kind
Evoking Emotion
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Readers pick up nonfiction books to learn something. They pick up novels to feel something: love, fear, joy, grief, elation, frustration, happiness, desperation, anger, despair, determination...or all of the above. We write novels to give readers a vicarious emotional experience. They want to weep when our characters weep and rejoice when they rejoice. Most of all, readers want to learn what our characters learn - a memorable lesson to enrich their lives. Angela Hunt explains how novelists can do all of those things, and she reveals specific techniques we can use to evoke emotion in the reader. These writing lessons, Hunt says, "are brief for a reason - I don’t want you to spend most of your time reading how-to books. I will give you what you need so you can put what you’ve learned into practice. That’s the best way to improve." Enjoy this writing lesson for a fraction of the cost of attending one of Angela's writing classes. Your writing will never be the same.
©2013 Angela E. Hunt (P)2020 Angela E. Hunt
Semicolon
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A pause-resisting, existential romp through the life and times of the world’s most polarizing punctuation mark. The semicolon. Stephen King, Hemingway, Vonnegut, and Orwell detest it. Herman Melville, Henry James, and Rebecca Solnit love it. But why? When is it effective? Have we been misusing it? Should we even care? In Semicolon, Cecelia Watson charts the rise and fall of this infamous punctuation mark, which for years was the trendiest one in the world of letters. But in the 19th century, as grammar books became all the rage, the rules of how we use language became both stricter and more confusing, with the semicolon a prime victim. Taking us on a breezy journey through a range of examples - from Milton’s manuscripts to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letters from Birmingham Jail” to Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep - Watson reveals how traditional grammar rules make us less successful at communicating with each other than we’d think. Even the most die-hard grammar fanatics would be better served by tossing the rule books and learning a better way to engage with language. Through her rollicking biography of the semicolon, Watson writes a guide to grammar that explains why we don’t need guides at all and refocuses our attention on the deepest, most primary value of language: true communication. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2019 Cecelia Watson (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers
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Triunfa con tu eBook [Succeed with Your eBook]
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©2015 Global Marketing Strategies, S. L. (P)2018 Audible, Inc.