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APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur-How to Publish a Book
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
July 22, 2025
Words
256

“First of all, what a terrible name for a book. I mean, I get the acronym, but still – why call a book this? That said, this is a great book. It’s as practical a guide to writing and self-publishing a book as you’re ever going to find. It’s not a motivational book, either – it assumes you can write…”

The Art of Slow Writing: Reflections on Time, Craft, and Creativity
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
December 27, 2015
Words
220

“Loved this book. Just loved it. It’s a series of short essays on the often tortured art of writing. There are at almost 50 chapters, and in each, the author writes about some specific aspect of the struggle of writing, and how it’s a skill and discipline which develops over time. It turns out that…”

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
July 17, 2025
Words
284

“This has virtually no practical advice about writing. It’s really just a series of random essays about the intellectual and emotional toll that being a writer takes on you. I had wanted to read this book for a long time. It was published back in 1995 when I was in college, and I remember someone (a…”

Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
December 8, 2019
Words
143

“You need to understand that this isn’t a book about the process of writing (as the title would suggest). This is really a meandering memoir of a particular writer’s life. I keep looking for some constructive instructional value, but it’s buried pretty deep. Mostly, McPhee just wants to tell…”

How to Write About Contemporary Art
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
September 17, 2019
Words
67

“I have no idea why I bought this – I think I just wanted to know how writing about art would be different than anything else. And it was quite good. It very much becomes a general book about writing, especially later in the book, but the early sections have a lot of examples about art writing and…”

How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
May 30, 2016
Words
248

“This book is ambitious in trying to teach us all how to write an effective short form, but it’s hit or miss. It’s a firehose of information which sort of defies attempts to read it casually. There’s a lot there, and each chapter has exercises that you’re supposed to do – and I believe you do need…”

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
March 8, 2016
Words
184

“One of the greatest books every written on writing. Zinsser strikes the perfect balance between a strategic and tactical approach to what writers do. He mixes good perspective with practical advice. The first part is all plans and strategy. He’s big on clarity – every word should serve a purpose….”

The Science of Storytelling
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
June 30, 2020
Words
85

“I enjoyed the book, but maybe it should mention that it’s fundamentally about fiction. I was hoping for something about storytelling in a business context, but this is about novels and films and such. In fact, there’s a long appendix will explores the structure of a novel that the author took from…”

Spycraft for Thriller Writers: How to Write Spy Novels, TV Shows and Movies Accurately and Not Be Laughed at by Real-Life Spies
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
June 18, 2023
Words
404

“This is a book that describes the U.S. intelligence community so that spy novel writers can describe it more accurately. Note the subtitle: How to Write Spy Novels, TV Shows and Movies Accurately and Not Be Laughed at by Real-Life Spies The book delivers on what it says – it’s a very stark…”

The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs, & Pictograms
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
October 6, 2017
Words
51

“ Interesting, full of pictures, but it got ponderous. Weirdly long, because it’s basically a picture book, but with a lot of text, so you spend a lot of time starting and ending sections, and looking at captions. You don’t really get in a narrative flow. Almost a coffee table book, really. ”

Trustworthy: How the Smartest Brands Beat Cynicism and Bridge the Trust Gap
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
April 8, 2021
Words
95

“Margot really hits on the thing we all sort of know about content but don’t acknowledge: some content, we just don’t trust, and some content we do. We probably don’t even acknowledge that at any conscious level, but when we talk about ‘good content’ we’re talking content that we trust. I almost…”

Unleash the Power of Storytelling: Win Hearts, Change Minds, Get Results
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
July 7, 2023
Words
72

“I bought this because I want to get better at explaining things. It was…okay? What’s sad, is that finished it a couple weeks ago, and I honestly can’t remember anything about it worth writing. I do remember it being quite basic. It has a lot of examples as well, which I was nice. But, seriously,…”

Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
July 29, 2022
Words
284

“Robert Caro writes a very particular type of book. He hasn’t written that many, but they were (and are) huge and detailed. He wrote a book called The Power Broker which was a 1,200 biography of the NYC city planner Robert Moses. Caro won a Pulitzer for that. He won another Pulitzer for one of the…”

The Writer’s Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
February 15, 2019
Words
143

“I abandoned this at about the halfway point, for two reasons: I probably wasn’t the right audience. It’s geared toward more novice writers. It’s fundamentally a book of exercises (the title was pretty clear about this; I should have paid more attention). Each chapter is a writing prompt that you’re…”