Articles, columns, books, videos, and more explaining 'how to' do things.
Over on my blog for "Readers and Writers" I have been posting thoughts on writing book reviews. One of the topics is "Marketing Reviews" — the class of review offered by MWSA to members. If you read Writing Marketing Book Reviews, it might help clarify how a marketing review differs from an impartial or academic review.
Title: Get Rich in a Niche: The Insider’s Guide To Self-Publishing in a Specialized Market
Author: Jeffrey Bennett
Genre: Reference
Reviewer: Terry Shoptaugh
ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): B0056QJKFE
Get Rich in a Niche shows you how to be a niche expert in three well explained steps
1. Become an expert
2. Publish your book
3. Market your book
Title: Insider's Guide to Security Clearances
Author: Jeffrey Bennett
Genre: How-to
Reviewer: Terry Shoptaugh
ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): B004KSPYTK
Turn your passion for business into work for the US Government. Discover what you need to know about how to get a security clearance and perform on classified contracts.
This book explains how to obtain such clearances.
Fellow author RJ Keller and I created, several years ago, a writers' comic relief YouTube series called "Inside the Writers' Studio."
We usually focus our episodes on the humorous aspects of some of the frustrations of writers (while also, at times, making fun of writers, as in our episode titled "Writer Stereotypes"), but after reading an interview with Sue Grafton in which she refers to self-publishing as "lazy," I guess you could say we set aside the "funny" and responded seriously to this misperception.
Title: Many Genres One Craft: Lessons in Writing Popular Fiction
Author Michael A. Arnzen, Heidi Ruby Miller
Genre: How-to
Reviewer: Terry L. Shoptaugh
ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 0938467085
Well-known authors affiliated with Seton Hill University's MFA program offer advice on how to write successful genre novels.