Suggested Reading

 

 The Writing Loft suggests the following books.

Books marked with an asterisk

are the text books used in the online classes.

* 10 Glaring Mistakes Amateur Writer's Make...and How to Fix Them by Nora Profit

Click here to order.

        Don't be tagged an amateur. Find out if your work is riddled

        with these often-overlooked mistakes.

* The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White
 

How to Write a Book Proposal     Larsen, Michael.

 

* Thinking Like Your Editor   Rabiner, Susan and Fortunato, Alfred.   

        Our choice for information on what criteria editors

        use to select nonfiction books to purchase.

 

* Writer’s Market  (current year)  Writers Digest. 

 

Find it Fast    Berkman, Robert I. 

        When you need to locate information quickly.

The Chicago Stylebook   Staff at the University of Chicago Press.

Woe Is I   O'Conner, Patricia D.

       Easy and fun book on using grammar.

 

* Webster’s New World Guide to Punctuation  

Douglas, Auriel and Strumpt, Michael.

       Pocket reference book. Easy to use, easy to carry

       wherever you write.

Webster’s New World Dictionary

 

     * Guerilla Marketing for Writers   Levinson, Frishman, and Larsen.

 

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers  Gibaldi, Joseph.  For nonfiction authors who have to document their work.