Ten Strategies to Write Your Novel
by Meredith Sue Willis

Celebrated novelist and story-writer Meredith Sue Willis has also published three widely praised books about the writing process:  Personal Fiction Writing, Deep Revision, and Blazing Pencils. In Ten Strategies to Write Your Novel, Willis now turns her attention to the specific delights and challenges of working with a big fictional canvas.  This clear, eminently practical guide offers both general approaches and targeted suggestions for working through the complex tasks of writing a novel.  Willis describes multiple entryways into this formidable genre, offers vivid illustrations from classic and contemporary novels, and provides dozens of creative exercises to jump-start the writing process. Ten Strategies to Write Your Novel is destined to become a classic guide for newcomers and veterans alike.

	ISBN 1-932727-10-8. Paperback, $16.95
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The Executive Writer 
by Edith Poor

The business world requires leaders who can synthesize and present intricate, subtle ideas simply. So for the record, here is what I believe: Writing is not the hard part; thinking is. Thinking is so hard that we probably invented writing to make thinking easier.

The way an organization writes reveals much about how it thinks. The way you write reveals much about how you think. Improve the quality of the writing and inevitably you improve the quality of the thinking.

Edith Poor helps business leaders think, write, and speak more clearly. She has over twenty years of experience helping executives master the printed and spoken word.

Praise for Edith Poor's The Executive Writer:

"An essential road map for making the transition from reader to writer, writer to editor, manager to mentor and leader.  Read her book.  Use her ideas.  The results will speak for themselves."

—Erik Anderson, President, WestRiver Capital

"This is the book I recommend all the time. Edith Poor gives up a new and powerful way to connect thinking, communication, and leadership."

—Cille Koch, Vice President, Chubb Group of Insurance Companies

"The Executive Writer proviced a compelling argument that effective writing isn't an art form but a critical leadership tool."

—David F. Ferreira, Chief Administrative Officer, Abt Associates

 

	ISBN 1-932727-05-1. Paperback, $19.95
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Voicework 
by Edith Poor

     By examining traditional attitudes about women’s and men’s voices—attitudes that have shaped the history of public speaking and continue to shape every speaker to the present day—Voicework reveals the “manly” style of public speaking at work in us all. Edith Poor’s brief, powerful commentary offers insights that will be invaluable to all public speakers.