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Welcome to the Easylife bookshop. In here you will find a vast range of books and magazines that will encourage, stimulate and help you start or improve your writing. If you are looking for any specific books, you can also use the Amazon search button (on the left) to try and locate it.

	Grammatically Correct: The Writer's Guide to Punctuation, Spelling, Style, Usage and Grammar. Accuracy reigns supreme, your writing must be smooth, clear and as graceful as it is concise. But it needn't be difficult. Grammatically Correct is easy to use, quick to reference and, most of all, comprehensive-so chances are you'll never be grammatically incorrect again.
	Just the Facts Ma'am: A Writer's Guide to Investigators and Investigation Technique Greg Fallis If your story needs some mystery, then you'll need to make it believable. Consult this expert source on criminal investigating, animated by the author's compelling real-life anecdotes from his own experiences as a private detectives.
	How to Write Funny: John B. Kachuba Combining classic and original articles with interviews with authors such as Dave Barry, Tom Bodet, and Bill Bryson, this guide teaches writers how to sharpen their sense of humour in their writing.
	Fiction Writer's Brainstormer: James V. Smith Smith acts as a coach, a confidant and a devil's advocate. Delivering advice and instruction, he'll have your brain firing on all cylinders in no time. Whether you're a beginner or a professional, Smith will keep you on track, enabling you to start, finish, and polish your work into writing that sells.
	Successful Scriptwriting: Jurgen Wolff & Kerry Cox One of the few how-tos that acknowledges that there are more media than features and docu-dramas. Good directions for movies-of-the-week, hour-long series scripts, situation comedies, and daytime serials. Excellent chapters on how to write for animation films, variety shows,
	How to Get Your e-Book Published: Richard Curtis & William Thomas Quick How to Get Your E-Book Published is an insider’s authoritative, comprehensive guide to this brand-new opportunity for you as a writer. Richard Curtis, agent, author, e-rights guru and e-publisher, and author William Thomas Quick detail how the industry works, where it’s headed and how you can be a part of it.
	Modus Operandi: A Writer's Guide to How Criminals Work: Mauro V. Corvasce & Joseph R. Paglino Writers will see how to create cunning criminals who still leave clues protagonists can follow. The authors explain how law-breakers perform the dirty deeds of murder--from contract killers to seemingly ordinary people--armed robbery, arson, smuggling, white collar crime, prostitution, and more.

	The Pocket Muse: Ideas and Inspirations for Writing: Monica Wood Includes thought-provoking prompts, exercises, and illustrations, "The Pocket Muse" is every writer's key to finding writing inspiration when and where they want.
	How to Write Romances, Revised: Phyllis Taylor Pianka Indulge in your own passion for this lucrative genre by learning first-hand the who, where, when, what and how to break into the business. Covers creative and business aspects clearly and completely. Young adult and inspirational markets covered.
	The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes Jack M. Bickham In succinct, to-the-point style, the author tells you what to avoid and how to do it. For example, he suggests ways to conquer procrastination, dump wimpy characters, look for trouble, cut coincidence, escape the fog and fill your fiction with passion and emotion. Who could ask for anything more?
	The Marshall Plan Workbook: Writing Your Novel from Start to Finish: Evan Marshall The Marshall Plan Workbook, companion volume to the very successful Marshall Plan for Novel Writing, focuses on building a novel's plot, with more than 100 pages of fill-in sheets that become a veritable blueprint for each reader's novel.
	The Well-Fed Writer: Financial Self-Sufficiency as a Freelance Writer in Six Months or Less: Peter Bowerman The Well-Fed Writer will take you step-by-detailed-step through, indeed, everything you need to know to quickly get your share of this exciting and highly lucrative arena of freelancing.
	Urge to Kil:l Martin Edwards Procedural and technical inaccuracies can ruin an otherwise effective crime novel, especially given the public's increasing interest in forensic details. In this guide, readers delve into the world of murder to learn how and why people commit homicide and how detectives capture the perpetrators.
	Write Right!: A Desktop Digest of Punctuations, Grammar, and Style--4th Edition: Jan Venolia In the fourth edition of this classic handbook, writing authority Jan Venolia presents hard-to-grasp concepts in easy-to-get form, with practical advice, fun examples, and expanded discussions on usage and style. Completely revised and updated, WRITE RIGHT! is an invaluable resource for anyone who takes writing seriously.
	Write Where You Live: Successful Freelancing at Home: Without Driving Yourself and Your Family Crazy: Elaine Fantle Shimberg If you work from home, you understand, and if you don't work at home-but would like to-you'll need to know what you're getting into. Among other things, writing at home means sticking to a schedule. The author discusses how to administer your time to build a successful writing career.
	Writer's Market: 8,000 Editors Who Buy What You Write with CDROM 2002: Kirsten Holm This version has all the goodies of the above and is always at your fingertips (keyboard that is). Comes with a submission tracker too!
	Writing Romances: A Handbook by the Romance Writers of America: Rita Gallagher & Rita Estrada Take the advice from the pros like Jude Deveraux on the Secrets of the Best-Seller or Janet Dailey on Mainstream Romance. More than 25 top-selling romance writers, editors, agents and publicists tell it like it is for the aspiring writer interested in the business.
	Writing the Short Story: A Hands-On Writing Program: Jack M. Bickham Progressive exercises, practically a complete writing course, help you learn how to write the short story. Working at your pace, you'll learn description, action, and internalization. Using a mapmaking concept, you'll be able to blueprint any story to demonstrate conflict, decision or discovery, and structure your story.
	You Can Write a Mystery: Gillian Roberts Practical, systematic, thorough, Roberts’ rules of mystery writing include 15 commandments including characters, conflict, causality, complications, change, crisis and closure. Want to know how to hide clues and exploit red herrings? Are you eager to hone your research techniques? Let Roberts tell you how.
	You Can Write a Romance: Rita Clay Estrada & Rita Gallagher Could you write romance bestsellers translated for consumption around the world? The mother-daughter team of Estrada, author of thirty romance novels, and Gallagher, a novel structure teacher, believe they’ve created the winning formula and they want to pass on the wisdom. (more information...)
	You Can Write Children's Books: Tracey E. Dils As a successful writer and experienced editor, Tracey Dils takes the mystery out of the maze of children’s book publishing. First-time children’s writers will learn to follow the important writing and submission guidelines they need to get their work in print.
	Your Novel Proposal:From Creation to Contract: The Complete Guide to Writing Query Letters, Synopses and Proposals for Agents and Editors: Blythe Camenson & Marshall Cook An insider's guide to getting your book published, including how to write query letters, synposes and proposals. Find out when the best time is to send a chapter outline, follow up on your submission and hire (or fire) an agent.
	The Writers’ and Artists Yearbook; is back for its annual appearance. It’s kept the shiny bright-red, chunky housebrick look of 2004 and remains, as last year’s novelist commentator Eoin Colfer observed, rammed with "every possible scrap of information needed by the upcoming or established writer." This year’s foreword writer Maeve Binchy describes it as "like a magic carpet that would carry the writer anywhere.