GCWA Online Catalog of Books for Writers

The book list links Books for Writers to online book stores and the local Lee County Library, when available. Members are invited to add their favorites to the book list by contacting website@gulfwriters.org.

HOW-TO BOOKS FOR WRITERS

  • On Writing, by Stephen King
    Lee County Library – Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • Writing the Natual Way, by Gabriele Lusser Rico
    Lee County Library – Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • The Little Book of Writing Advice by Tim Jacobs
    Amazon
  • The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Expression by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi
    Amazon – Barnes & NobleThe First Five Pages: A Writer’S Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile, by Noah Lukeman
  • Amazon – Barnes & NobleWriting Down the Bones, by Natalie Goldberg
    Lee County Library – Amazon – Barnes & Noble

HOW-TO BOOKS FOR WRITERS
 FICTION

HOW-TO BOOKS FOR WRITERS
 NON FICTION

  • Writing Lives, by Leon Edel, 1987
    (Not available at Lee County Library)
    Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • Old friend from far away : the practice of writing memoir by Natalie Goldberg
    Lee County Library – Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • Biographer’s Craft by Milton Lomask
    (Not available at Lee County Library)
    Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • On Writing Well by William Zinsser
    Lee County Library – Amazon – Barnes & Noble

HOW-TO BOOKS FOR WRITERS
 POETRY

  • The Poetry Home Repair Manual by Ted Kooser, Poet Laureate 2004-2006.
    (Not available at Library)
    Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • Writing Poems by Michelle Boisseau, Christine Wallace, Randall Mann
    (Not available at Library)
    Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • Complete Idiot’s Guide to Writing Poetry by Nikki Moustaki
    Lee County Library – Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • Make a Living as a Poet by Gary Mex Glazner
    (Not available at Library )
    Amazon – Barnes & Noble

HOW-TO BOOKS FOR WRITERS
 PLAY & SCREENWRITING

  • The Story Solution by Eric Edson
    Lee County Library — Amazon — Barnes & Noble
  • The Complete Book of Scriptwriting by J. Michael Straczynski
    Lee County Library – Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • Naked Playwriting: The Art, The Craft, And The Life Laid Bare
    by William Missouri Downs and Robin U. Russin
    (Not available at Library )
    Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You’ll Ever Need by Blake Snyder
    Lee County Library – Amazon – Barnes & Noble

REFERENCE BOOKS FOR WRITERS
 GRAMMAR AND STYLE

  • APA Publication Manual by American Psychological Association
    Lee County Library – Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, by Anne Lamott
    Lee County Library – Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • The Careful Writer by Theodore M. Bernstein
    (Not available at Library)
    Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • The Chicago Manual of Style, University of Chicago Press
    Lee County Library – Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation by Lynne Truss.
    Lee County Library – Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • The Elements of Style, by William Strunk Jr. and E.B.White
    Lee County Library – Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • Funk & Wagnall’s Standard Handbook of Synonyms, Antonyms & Prepositions
    Lee County Library – Amazon
  • A Grammar of Present-Day English; R.W.
    Pence, published 1947-1963
    (not available at library)
    Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • The Harper Dictionary of Foreign Terms
    Lee County Library – Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • The Hollywood standard : the complete and authoritative guide to script format and style, by Christopher Riley
    Lee County Library – Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • Line by line : how to edit your own writing by Cook, Claire Kehrwald
    Lee County Library – Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • The new well-tempered sentence : a punctuation handbook for the innocent, the eager, and the doomed by Karen Elizabeth Gordon.
    (not available at library)
    Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
    Lee County Library – Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • Roget’s International Thesaurus
    Lee County Library – Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary
    Lee County Library – Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • The Writer’s Legal Companion by Brad Bunnin & Peter Beren
    (Not available at Library)
    Amazon – Barnes & Noble

REFERENCE BOOKS FOR WRITERS
 PUBLISHING & MARKETING

  • Literary Marketplace LMP – Directory of the American Book Publishing Industry
    Lee County Library
  • How to Write Irresistible Query Letters by Lisa Collier Cool
    (Not available at Library)
    Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • Writer’s Market
    More than 3500 market listings for writers.
    Older versions can be checked out of the library, but the 2010 edition can only be used in house.
    Amazon – Barnes & Noble

REFERENCE BOOKS FOR WRITERS
 SELF-PUBLISHING

  • Collins, Amy. The Write Way. Everything You Need To Know About Publishing, Selling and Marketing Your Book.
    Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • Friedlander, Joel. 10 Things You Need To Know About Self-Publishing.
    Free from The Book Designer
  • Lee, Dona and Al Musitano. Published! The Complete Guide to Non-Traditional Publishing. To Self or Subsidy Publish? That is the question.
    Amazon
  • Levine, Mark. The Fine Print of Self-Publishing. Fifth Edition.
    [Sixth Edition pending.]
    Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • Rich, Jason. Self-Publishing for Dummies.
    Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • Sampson, Brent. Self-Publishing Questions Asked & Answered
    [Note: Brent Sampson is the president of Outskirts Press, a Print on Demand publisher.]
    Outskirts Press

REFERENCE BOOKS FOR WRITERS
 FREELANCING

  • The ASJA Guide to Freelance Writing, edited by Timothy
    Harper.  Griffin
    Lee County Library – Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • The Freelance Success Book:  Insider Secrets for
    Selling Every Word You Write
    by David Taylor.  Peak Writing Press.
    (not available at library)
    Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • Starting Your Career as a Freelance Writer by Moira
    Allen.  Allworth Press.
    Lee County Library – Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • The Well-Fed Writer: Financial Self-Sufficiency as a
    Freelance Writer in Six
    Months or Less by Peter Bowerman, Fanove Publishing
    Lee County Library – Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • Writing Freelance….Christine Adamec
    (not available at library)
    Amazon – Barnes & Noble

REFERENCE BOOKS FOR WRITERS
 CHILDREN’S BOOKS

  • A Basic Guide to Writing, Selling, and Promoting Children’s Books  by Betsy B. Lee
    (not available at library)
    Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • The Children’s Writer’s Reference by Eric Suben, Berthe Amoss
    Lee County Library – Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • Children’s Writer’s Word Book by Alijandra Mogilner
    Lee County Library – Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • The Business of Writing for Children: by Aaron
    Shepard (not available at library)
    (Not available at Library)
    Amazon – Barnes & Noble

REFERENCE BOOKS FOR WRITERS
 ROMANCE

  • The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Getting Your Romance Published by Julie Beard
    Alpha Books, (January, 2000)
    (not available at library)
    Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • How to Write a Romance for the New Market and Get Published by Kathryn Falk
    Genesis Press Inc., (September, 1999)
    (not available at library)
    Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • You Can Write a Romance by Rita Clay Estrada
    Writers Digest Books, (August, 1999)
    Lee County Library – Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • Writing Romances; A Handbook by the Romance Writers of America by Rita Gallagher, Rita Clay Estrada
    (not available at library)
    Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • Writing Romance by Vanessa Grant
    (not available at library)
    Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • The Art of Romance Writing : How to Create, Write and Sell Your
    Contemporary Romance Novel
    by Valerie Parv (not available at library)
    Amazon – Barnes & Noble

REFERENCE BOOKS FOR WRITERS
THE CLASSICS

REFERENCE BOOKS FOR WRITERS
 SHORT STORIES

REFERENCE BOOKS FOR WRITERS
 MISCELLANEOUS

  • The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield
    Amazon – Barnes & Noble – Lee County Library (e-book)
  • Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
    Lee County Library – Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • William Fox, Sol M. Wurtzel and the Early Fox Film Corporation, Edited by Lillian Wurtzel Semenov and Carla
    Winter, reviewed by Jenna Glatzer.
    A nonfiction work that reads like hilarious fiction. (not available at library)
    Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • Stein on Writing…Sol Stein
    Lee County Library – Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • The Writer’s Journey…Christopher Vogler (not available at library)
    Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • The Courage to Write….Ralph Keyes (not available at library)
    Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • The Quotable Writer….William A. Gordon (not available at library)
    Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • Successful Syndication….Michael Sedge (not available at library)
    Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • You Can Write A Column…Monica McCabe Cardoza
    Lee County Library – Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • The Writer’s Idea Book…Jack Heffron (not available at library)
    Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • Words Into Type, 3rd edition; Marjorie
    E. Skillin (not available at library)
    Amazon – Barnes & Noble
  • The Writer’s Art, James Kilpatrick (not available at library)
    Amazon – Barnes & Noble