The secret to making money from your fiction writing is not only in the quality of your work but in your approach to the publishing process, and here an industry professional shows you how to make the system work for you.

A guide to fiction with introductions to over 1,100 authors. This book covers twentieth-century fiction, popular classics, autobiographical fiction and foreign language translations, and includes 34 overviews by best-selling authors introducing different genres.

Written for graduate students, including MBA, master's, and doctoral candidates, as well as postdoctoral researchers and faculty, Grammar Choices describes the language of advanced academic writing with more than 300 real examples from successful graduate students and from published texts, including corpora.

'Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.' - Jack Kerouac

'The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.' -- Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory

Lunule. Moon rise over the reservoir - a hush of wind on the embankment, fingertip indentations in the grass, each with a darker lunule. She asks: What are you doing? I reply: Thinking about my life.' - Will Self, 'Key Stroke

The world's most complicated nation is learning ways to describe itself. The novel and the outsider's eye no longer rule.

Published in book form four times a year, Granta is respected around the world for its mix of outstanding new fiction, poetry, reportage, memoir, photography and art.

Four judges - novelists A.S. Byatt and Salman Rushdie, bookseller John Mitchinson and "Granta" editor Bill Buford - set out to identify the most talented writers of the new generation. This is a collection of their fiction.

This issue of "Granta" was inspired by the original campaign for the Best Young British Novelists. This book includes the writing from the 20 writers judged in 1983.

For the third time, Granta has selected 20 writers under 40 whose writing represents the best promise or achievement in British fiction. The collection includes stories by Sarah Waters, Rachel Cusk, Robert McLiam Wilson, Rachel Seiffert, Philip Hensher, A. L. Kennedy and Toby Litt.

Help you distinguish between so-called rules of grammar that are an aid to good writing and those that you can cheerfully ignore.

Helps writers learn how to crafting their own breakout fantasy or sci-fi novel. This guide also helps in: developing the best plot structure; creating believable, exciting characters; writing compelling combat scenes; presenting technology that sounds as if it ought to work; and, also writing a strong proposal and finding the right publisher.

A new critical biography of Gustave Flaubert, widely regarded as one of the world's greatest novelists, and whose work continues to influence and inspire writers, artists and musicians to this day.

The definitive reference volume on the research methods, practices, and issues related to autoethnographic research and writing.

Suitable for tutors, students and other creative writing professionals, this edition includes 54 chapters that cover the three central pillars of writing creatively: theories of creativity, the craft of writing and creative writing as a business.