Description:
Four-time Edgar Award-winning author Lawrence Block's definitive essay collection on the art of writing fiction
For ten years, crime novelist Lawrence Block funneled his wealth of writing expertise into a monthly column for Writer's Digest. Collected here for the first time are those pieces illuminating the tricks of the authorial trade, from creating vibrant characters and generating seamless plots, to conquering writer's block and experimenting with self-publishing.
Filled with wit and insight, The Liar's Bible is a must-read for experts, amateurs, and anyone interested in learning to craft great fiction from one of the field's modern masters.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Lawrence Block, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author's personal collection.
Brief description: Susan Straight has published eight novels. Her most recent, Between Heaven and Here, is the final book in the Rio Seco trilogy. Take One Candle Light a Room was named one of the best books of 2010 by the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Kirkus Reviews, and A Million Nightingales was a finalist for the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her novel Highwire Moon was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award. "The Golden Gopher" won the 2008 Edgar Award for Best Mystery Story. Her stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Harper's, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, the Believer, Zoetrope: All-Story, Black Clock, and elsewhere. Straight has been awarded the Lannan Prize for Fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Gold Medal for Fiction from the Commonwealth Club of California. She is distinguished professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside. She was born in Riverside, California, where she lives with her family, whose history is featured on susanstraight.com.
Review Quotes: "Her gallery of misfits reminds one of Flannery O'Connor's--but with a dash of sympathy and human goodness."?--The Washington Post Book World "An eye-opener of a novel, a road map to the real California . . . [Straight] turns headlines into poetry."?--The New York Times Book Review "Packed with the kind of detail about people, places and emotions that transport the reader to a different world."?--San Francisco Chronicle "One of America's gutsiest writers . . . a polyglot with an astonishing ear for how people really talk in places we hardly remember they are living."?--The Baltimore Sun "Heartrending."--Publishers Weekly