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The Infrastructure of the Gods by Brian Hodge

The Writer's Purgatory by Monique Snyman

Why Rejection is Still Important by Kevin Lucia

Real Writers Steal Time by Mercedes M. Yardley

What Right Do I Have to Write by Jasper Bark

Go Pace Yourself by Jack Ketchum

A Little Infusion of Magic by Dave-Brendon de Burgh

Confronting Your Fears in Fiction by Todd Keisling

Once More with Feeling by Tim Waggoner

Embracing Your Inner Shitness by James Everington

The Forgotten Art of Short Story by Mark Allan Gunnells

Adventures in Teaching Creative Writing by Lucy A. Snyder

Submit (to psychology) for Acceptance by Daniel I. Russell

Character Building by Theresa Derwin

Heroes and Villains by Paul Kane

Do Your Worst by Jonathan Winn

Creating Effective Characters by Hal Bodner

Fictional Emotions; Emotional Fictions by James Everington

Home Sweet Home by Ben Eads

You by Kealan Patrick Burke

The art of becoming a book reviewer by Nerine Dorman

Treating Fiction like a Relationship by Jonathan Janz

How to Write Killer Poetry by Stephanie M. Wytovich

Happy Little Trees by Michael Knost

In Lieu of Patience Bring Diversity by Kenneth W. Cain

Networking is Scary, but Essential by Doug Murano

Are You In The Mood? by Sheldon Higdon

What if Every Novel is a Horror Novel? by Steve Diamond

Description by Patrick Freivald

A First-Time Novelist's Odyssey by William Gorman

I Am Setting by J.S. Breukelaar

Finding Your Voice by Lynda E. Rucker

Learn the craft of writing from those who know it best.

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"The essays are a mixture of the business side of writing as well as craft and they all feature topics that most writers would do well to read about. Whether you struggle with finding time to write or with self-confidence and putting yourself out there as an author or indeed how to create three-dimensional characters, this series has you covered." - A.E. Siraki

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Crystal Lake Publishing (November 26, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1684187591
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1684187591
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.06 x 0.7 x 7.81 inches

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Todd Keisling
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TODD KEISLING is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Devil’s Creek. His other works include The Final Reconciliation, Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors, and The Monochrome Trilogy, among several shorter works. He lives somewhere in the wilds of Pennsylvania with his family where he is at work on his next novel.
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Michael Knost is a Bram Stoker Award®-winning editor and author of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and supernatural thrillers. He has written in various genres and helmed multiple anthologies. His Writers Workshop of Horror won the 2009 Bram Stoker Award® for superior achievement in non-fiction. His critically acclaimed Writers Workshop of Science Fiction & Fantasy is an Amazon #1 bestseller. Return of the Mothman, Barbers and Beauties, and Author’s Guide to Marketing with Teeth were all finalists for the Bram Stoker Award®. Michael was honored with the Silver Hammer Award from the Horror Writer's Association because of his work as the organization's mentorship chair, and he also won the prestigious J.U.G. (Just Uncommonly Good) Award from West Virginia Writer's Inc. He has taught writing classes and workshops at several colleges, conventions, and online, and currently resides in Chapmanville, West Virginia with his wife, daughter, and a zombie goldfish.
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Mr. & Mrs. V

Good advice, especially for beginners

Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2021

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An expansive collection of writing advice--both in terms of putting the words on the page and building a career--from people who have been there and done that. Some of the sections regarding digital books are a bit outdated at this point, but even still some of that advice remains beneficial. Worth the time to read though, especially for beginnings. This Omnibus might at least keep you from wasting some time going astray and making mistakes early in your career that might have been avoided.

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Excellent Collection of Essays for the Horror Writer

Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2017

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This is an excellent collection of essays by Horror writers for Horror writers. The topics covered include style, setting, finding your voice, and more. Even non-Horror writers will get something useful out of this collection. I highly recommend this for all aspiring and new Horror authors.

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Tony Evans

Highly recommend this book

Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2017

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Great story with lots of practical advice from well known and established authors. CLP nailed it with this one! Highly recommend it to anyone interested in writing.

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Shane .D Keene

A tome of extremely high quality essays packed with useful wisdom and advice

Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2016

This is the first review of a non-fiction work that I’ve written so please forgive me if I stumble a bit. I’m used to talking about plot and character and setting and that sort of thing so, as you can see, this is uncharted territory. That said, I do read a lot of books like this. And what I inevitably find is that the work is often mediocre to terrible. There are a ton of books out there written by “authors” who don’t seem to have written anything but writing instruction manuals and not only do they generally throw credibility right out the window, they toss quality and usefulness out along with it. But every great once in a while you come across a gem, a piece that has been penned by a writer that has written stories and novels with some degree of success and that brings knowledge and veracity to the table and produces something worth reading, often even worth going back to repeatedly for reference.

In Writers on Writing Volume 1 – 4 Omnibus: An Author’s Guide, Crystal Lake Publishing gives us just such a book and they do so in spades, bringing together a collection of essays from an eclectic gathering of authors from all walks of life and every branch of the profession you can imagine. Here you’ll find excellent guidance and advice from horror authors, poets, screenwriters and editors, all of whom excel in their chosen field and who bring together years of experience and talent culminating in a referential volume that you’ll find yourself turning to again and again in your writing adventures, no matter what kind of writing you do. With articles about pacing from the great Jack Ketchum, poetry advice from horror’s young phenom Stephanie M. Wytovich, a brilliant essay on the relationship between heroes and villains by Paul Kane, and an outstanding piece on setting from J.S. Breukelaar just to name a few, you can’t go wrong with this exceptional collection of wisdom by some of our favorite genre writers, poets, and editors, as well as a great essay on book reviewing by Nerine Dorman.

In addition to those already mentioned, you’ll also find work by such greats as Mercedes M. Yardley, Tim Waggoner, Kealan Patrick Burke, and Lucy A. Snyder. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. When it comes to books like this, you could do much worse, but you couldn’t find much that’s better than this. Every piece in here is rock solid, based on concrete knowledge and experience, and all extremely useful. There is zero fluff to be found here, but you will find a plethora of wisdom on just about any writing subject you can imagine. Highly recommended for both new authors and more experienced authors looking to hone their skills.

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Eddie Generous

much of the time these read like reheated supper

Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2017

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There seems to be endless how-to essays and books on writing. I’ve read a handful and numerous blog posts, much of the time these read like reheated supper. This had some reheated supper, sure, but, like lasagna, sometimes the re-issuing of a dish has more impact than the first run.
From the initial book of this omnibus –and by far the strongest and most generally insightful portion– it proves a valuable expenditure of time. Often, horror related essays on writing touchback to a particularly revealing and helpful memoir by Stephen King, aptly titled On Writing. The technical side of it anyway. The authors of this collection also make notes and direct quotes themselves, but it did not feel like regurgitation. There was application to it.
What the first book of this omnibus excels at above the others is entertainment. It is one thing to write a operation/repair manual, it is another to ensure that thing holds the attention of the reader. Holding attention is the only way to convey a message.
The second book of the omnibus loses some of the momentum with a pair of essays seemingly written by authors wanting nothing more than to shower themselves in praise and shill copies of their works –see what I did here, and here, oh and what about how awesome I did it there? This noted, most were fine and a few were stronger than that.
The third book shifts to an all-new tone, clear and narrow, the essays cast light over the intention and in the case of one essay, Hal Bodner’s Creating Effective Characters, entertainment, information and accessible placement of information roll together wonderfully. The third is also where the collections break away from honing skills on paper to focus on skills aside from writing, something that comes up –in useful and realistic terms– far less often.
The fourth focusses on many of the lesser discussed items. It is more in-depth than the previous in a particularly technical standpoint. Subjects of less glamor than characters and setting, but no less important, receive the full objective treatment.
Overall, I was impressed and in the case of a handful I felt veils lifting behind questions I hadn’t known I had, which is truly helpful –imagine if you read the frequent screw-ups by other weekend carpenters before trying buying the tools and supplies to into a deck on the back of your house and had the chance to apply their knowledge, you might have a deck you could stand on!
As a collective –beside the self-aggrandizing bits– Writers on Writing is a wealth of knowledge presented in a readable package, and made interesting by a horror leaning and the sensibility to know reader still needs a little something-something more than blueprints and checklists. Definitely of more value than the price tag and in some cases, one of few truly honest sources of information when it comes to the indie horror world.

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Mrs. Sarah Crabtree

An Author's Guide

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 13, 2017

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This is one for the aspiring writers among you. As soon as I started reading it, I was taking notes. I can see I shall be dipping in and out of this one and re-reading advice from people who know what it takes to be an author.
A must for anybody thinking of setting up a writers' group. Highly recommended.

Valerie Adolph

Practical and up to the moment

Reviewed in Canada on December 31, 2016

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This is a collection of essays on writing coming from up-to-the-minute modern writers. Their focus is horror writing (after all, that's what the publisher specializes in). However, there is much in here that applies widely to authors of any genre. The ideas and crystallization of experience are down-to-earth and practical. There's a minimum of meandering on.

I liked the conversational tone of most of the writers and the level of intelligence and generally well-used vocabulary. A minor quibble would be that most of the writers in this collection speak with a masculine voice. Interesting that the final essay "Finding your Voice" was written by a woman and spoke most clearly to me.

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