From top experts in the field, the definitive guide to grant-writing

Written by two expert authors who have won secured millions of dollars in government and foundation grants, The Only Grant-Writing Book You\'ll Ever Need is the classic book on grant seeking, providing a comprehensive, step-by-step guide for government, nonprofit, and individual grant seekers. Drawing on decades of experience in grant writing and professional development, Ellen Karsh and Arlen Sue Fox demystify the process of securing grants while offering indispensable advice from funders and recipients.
This updated fifth edition includes:

• Vital information about grantsmanship in today\'s ever-changing economic and social climate
• In-depth interviews with funders, nonprofit leaders, and policy makers about the grants process
• A new chapter on how to diversify funding and think \"outside the box\" when grants are scarce
• Concrete suggestions for developing each section of a proposal
• Hands-on exercises that let you practice what you learn
• A detailed description of important websites for grant seekers
• Strategies for developing and presenting programs that are likely to receive grants

Binding / Paperback: 448 pages

Publish Date: 5 November 2019

When locked inside a prison cell, being able to write well is one of the most powerful skills you can have. Some of the most famous and powerful men in the world are known for letters they

Binding: Paperback

Physical Info: 148 pages

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Enthrall Your Readers!

Suspense is one of the most powerful tools a writer has for captivating readers--but it isn't just for thrillers. From mainstream fiction to memoir, suspense creates the emotional tension that keeps readers on the edge of their seats. Mastering Suspense, Structure, & Plot is your hands-on guide to weaving suspense into your narrative. Award-winning author Jane K. Cleland teaches you how to navigate genre conventions, write for your audience, and build gripping tension to craft an irresistible page-turner.

Inside, Cleland will show you how to:

• Implement thirteen no-fail techniques to construct an effective plot and structure for your story
• Use Cleland's Plotting Road Map to add elements of suspense like twists, reversals, and moments of danger
• Write subplots with purpose
• Improve your descriptions, character development, sentence structure, and more
Packed with case studies, exercises, and dozens of examples from best-selling authors, Mastering Suspense, Structure, & Plot is the key to writing suspenseful, engaging stories that leave your readers wanting more.

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"Indispensable! For newbie authors and veterans alike, this terrific how-to is your new go-to. Don't write your book without it--it's a treasure." --Hank Phillippi Ryan, Agatha, Anthony, Macavity and Mary Higgins Clark award-winning author

Binding: Paperback

Physical Info: 240 pages

Publish Date: April 28, 2016

#1 National Bestseller on Amazon in FOUR categories, including Journal Writing, Business Writing, Authorship, and Publishing and Books.

Chronicle your unique life’s journey and establish a legacy. 

With over 50 guided questions organized into sections about your childhood years, teen years, young adulthood, and later years to help track your life story and leave a legacy, this journal offers a perfect way to frame and preserve your memories. By answering each question and filling each page, you’ll discover hidden aspects of yourself and your journey. It is also the perfect outline for creating and writing your own memoir!

You’ll be able to finally create your own story of your life’s journey with thought-provoking questions like:

• The first thing I can remember was…

• I remember when I learned to…

• I remember feeling the most proud of myself when…

• I remember my first job at…

• I remember by biggest misconception was…

Here is a tool to help you write your life history, to encourage and inspire others with your stories. Written by bestselling authors Melanie Johnson and Jenn Foster, this guided journal will help you write down your legacy to share with loved ones for years to come.

Binding: Paperback

Physical Info: 109 pages

Publish Date: February 22, 2016

HUGE 220 PAGES / RACE AHEAD IN CURSIVE HANDWRITING

From the trusted name in children’s education comes Scholdener’s Cursive Handwriting Workbook.

BEGINNING CURSIVE

PART 1: LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET
Trace and then copy each letter of the alphabet – both lowercase and capital letters – until each one is mastered.

PART 2: WRITING WORDS
Bring together the skills you learnt in Part 1 by writing a selection of simple then more complex words. Each page features a fun joke.

PART 3: JOKES AND RIDDLES
Move on to writing sentences by copying the jokes and riddles provided in the workbook.

This part will gently guide the child from beginner until they are happy and confidently writing sentences.

PRACTISE SENTENCES

Over 100 Pages Of Exercises To Improve Handwriting Skills

We delve further into full sentences by copying the carefully selected words. If you don’t get it right first time, don't worry! There's plenty of writing space, so just try again.

This part will have your child confidently writing full sentences.

THE QUALITY CHOICE + INCREDIBLE VALUE

Binding / Paperback: 220 pages

Publish Date: June 13, 2019

In particular, the book is full of easy puzzles, brain games, writing activities and coloring pages.

Some of the popular puzzles and brain games in this book include:

• Word Searches
• Spot the Odd One Out
• Shadow Finder
• Find the Differences
• Logic Puzzles
• Sudoku
• Crosswords
• Mazes
• Trivia Challenges and more

   

• Interesting Designs
• People
• Flowers
• Animals
• Classic Items and more

In this activity book, there are also select writing activities. Topics include:

• Favorite Concert
• Dream Vacation
• Beloved Pet
• A Family Mystery
• and More

Altogether, The Fun and Relaxing Adult Activity Book offers hours of entertainment for adults of all ages, from young adults to seniors.

Binding / Paperback: 152 pages

Publish Date: October 27, 2017

Ramp up your role-playing game (RPG) and make your character your own with this fun, interactive workbook—an essential addition to any player’s gaming kit.

You’ve chosen your class, bought your weapons, and rolled for your stats, and you’re now the proud owner of your own RPG (role-playing game) avatar. But before you begin your adventure, there’s so much more you can do with your character to make him or her your own! Just how evil is she? What does his dating profile look like? Where did she get that scar? What does he want for his birthday? With fill-in-the blank narratives, prompts, and fun activities to help you customize your character at the start of the game, or build out your backstory as you play, The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Book will help you fully imagine your character and bring them to life for the ultimate gaming experience!

Binding / Paperback: 272 pages

Publish Date: 2 October 2018

Immensely helpful and illuminating to any aspiring writer, this special edition of Stephen King’s critically lauded, million-copy bestseller shares the experiences, habits, and convictions that have shaped him and his work.

“Long live the King” hailed Entertainment Weekly upon publication of Stephen King’s On Writing. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer’s craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have. King’s advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported, near-fatal accident in 1999—and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery. Brilliantly structured, friendly and inspiring, On Writing will empower and entertain everyone who reads it—fans, writers, and anyone who loves a great story well told.

Binding: Paperback

Physical Info: 288 pages

Publish Date: July 6, 2010

About the Author
Kenneth Koch is the author of many books of poetry, most recently Straits, and won the Bollingen Prize for Poetry in 1994. He has also published fiction and plays, as well as books on the teaching of poetry: Wishes, Lies and Dreams; Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?; and I Never Told Anybody. He lives in New York City, where he is professor of English at Columbia University

Why is it that some writers struggle for months to come up with the perfect sentence or phrase, while others, hunched over a notepad or keyboard deep into the night, seem unable to stop writing? In The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain (Houghton Mifflin, January), neurologist Alice W. Flaherty explores the hows and whys of writing, revealing the science behind hypergraphia -- the overwhelming urge to write -- and its dreaded opposite, writer's block. The result is an innovative contribution to our understanding of creative drive, one that throws new light on the work of some of our greatest writers. A neurologist whose work puts her at the forefront of brain science, Flaherty herself suffered from hypergraphia after the loss of her prematurely born twins. Her unique perspective as both doctor and patient helps her make important connections between pain and the drive to communicate and between mood disorders and the creative muse. Deftly guiding readers through the inner workings of the human brain, Flaherty sheds new light on popular notions of the origins of creativity, giving us a new understanding of the role of the temporal lobes and the limbic system. She challenges the standard idea that one side of the brain controls creative function, and explains the biology behind a visit from the muse. Flaherty writes compellingly of her bout with manic hypergraphia, when "the sight of a computer keyboard or a blank page gave me the same rush that drug addicts get from seeing their freebasing paraphernalia." Dissecting the role of emotion in writing and the ways in which brain-body and mood disorders can lead to prodigious -- or meager -- creative output, Flaherty uses examples from her own life and the lives of writers from Kafka to Anne Lamott, from Sylvia Plath to Stephen King: * Fyodor Dostoevsky, the author of nineteen novels and novellas and voluminous notebooks, diaries, and letters, suffere

About the Author
Laurie Lamson has four entertainment projects in development with producers and many of the videos from her educational and corporate scripts have won multiple awards. As a filmmaker, she has directed the short films Family Values In The Goddess Years and Eternal Waltz, seven mini-documentaries, an award-winning reggae music video, and a tween music video.

A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry guides the young poet toward a deeper understanding of how poetry can function in his or her life, while also introducing the art in an exciting new way. Using such poems as Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz" and Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays," the Primer encourages young writers to approach their "thresholds"--those places where disorder meets order, where shaping imagination can turn language into urgent and persuasive poems. It provides the poet with more than a dozen focused writing exercises and explains essential topics such as the personal and cultural threshold; the four forces that animate poetic language (naming, singing, saying, imagining); tactics of revision; ecstasy and engagement as motives for poetry; and how to locate and learn from our personal poetic forebears.

It's Your way - Anyway! Your way - Every Day!

An ABC Book for Creatives, Kids, Adults and all who love lyrics.

How to make writing an enjoyable part of your everyday life.

For yourself. For your family. For your relationships.

It's all about the relationships -

Building Trust in yourself which grows into Trust in others.

Get out and experience for your own motivation.

Get together and spend some time sharing & creating.

Get started and write a little, letter by letter.

Writing this way will help you feel better!

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Grant writers are by nature community changemakers. They are the 20% doing 80% of the work. They are the quiet leaders, knowing how to build teams, forge community partnerships, and develop ideas into well-planned projects.

Grant writers put heart and soul into everything they do. They work on things that matter. They want to have an impact and better their communities.

Before grant writers become known for their craft, however, they started with an idea and plenty of ambition. Those that succeeded took the time to learn the art of grant writing. Armed with this skill set, they were empowered to achieve their broader vision.

If this sounds like you, then you have come to the right place. What you will soon have in your hands is a distillation of the most important information you need to know about grant writing.

The book is structured with the first half answering the questions I am most frequently asked. The second half follows with the questions I wish you were asking. The book covers topics like:

• How to write a grant in seven steps,

• How to write a convincing narrative,

• Where to find grants to go after,

• How to avoid running out of time when applying,

• Where to find match funding, and

• How to prepare a grant budget (with bonus access to a free budget spreadsheet template ), and more.

This book will fast track your learning curve to become a talented grant writer. In addition, you will receive downloadable templates and discount access to our online grant writing courses.

Make grant writing your super power

"The book, 'How to Write a Grant' breaks down the complexity of grant writing so that anyone can learn to be a professional. It's refreshingly straightforward with a modern approach. As someone who works in grants day in and day out, I highly recommend." Gauri Manglik, CEO & Co-founder, Instrumentl

"As a busy Executive Director and mom of 3, I rarely find time to physically go to grant writing workshops. Meredith's book was the perfect answer to upping my grant search and writing game. Her style of writing is informative and easy to digest...Her extensive experience in the non-profit world was evident with her examples. I encourage any new or experienced grant writer to pick up a copy like I did. You are guaranteed to learn something valuable " - Calisa Kastning, Executive Director SkiKu

"I have been involved in grant writing for over 15 years and have read a lot of different grant writing books. Meredith has written one of the easiest books to read, it is fun and informative. She gives incredible advice, tools and resources beginning in the first chapter. The overall book is funny and engaging while providing the reader with the information needed to start, or continue, their grant writing career. The tools she includes, for free, are some of the best I have seen." - Pamela Graham, Matanuska-Susitina Borough

"I got lucky I had two grant applications to write seeking funds to continue an international art project. Both deadlines were coming up soon. I had already made a bunch of notes and had a (weak) draft narrative when I started reading Ms. Noble's book. Her insightful tips and her stress on a step-by-step approach provided exactly the breakthrough I needed to whip my grant into shape...I produced a document so obviously superior to what I would have on my own..." - Amazon Customer

'A powerful little book: sure-footed, simple, feisty, funny, and profoundly helpful'' Five Stars (The Independent)

Punctuate with confidence the easy way A quick, funny, illustrated guide to all the punctuation you'll ever need to know. Whether you want to master punctuation for school, university, creative writing, journalism, business or anything else, this zany little book abandons complex rules and offers simple guidance for British and US English.

In an easy and engaging style suitable for all ages, this short guide goes through all the common punctuation marks, explaining how to use each one, and showing how to avoid some of the commonest errors.

Using funny, memorable examples, it allows you quickly to master all the common punctuation marks: periods (full stops), commas, colons, semicolons, exclamation marks, question marks, dashes, hyphens, apostrophes, quotation marks, brackets, and ellipses. It also has sections on how to handle two punctuation marks next to each other, numbers, -ize and -ise, and a wealth of other style advice. Many of the chapters are brought to life with whacky illustrations.

- British and US English
- No technical jargon
- Clear examples

This book is for:
- Writers (fiction and non-fiction)
- Schools and colleges
- Business
- All ages

'I wish every one of my students would read this '
Professor of Physics, Oxford University

'What a wonderful book '
Director, Author School

'A magical manual '
Editor, Leading UK newspaper

'Made me laugh and cheer'
Award-winning TV producer

Dominic Selwood is a journalist and bestselling author. Delia Johnson is a book illustrator.

This easy to read, quick, no fluff guide gives writers over 30 helpful ideas to help promote their books including:

• Pre and Post Release Strategies
• Checklist of release action items
• Tactics to help build buzz and support for releases
• The Seven Streams of Income you can leverage from your book
• 25 things you can do now to promote your book
• Marketing on Clubhouse

A must read for new authors or existing authors needing to revive book sales.

• Each page contains a prompt about Mom's life, on topics ranging from family lore to her childhood to love and marriage to her hopes and dreams.
• This guided journal will help Momshare her story and trigger discussions of family traditions.
• Makes a wonderful gift that may become a family keepsake.
• 160 pages

Pocket Workshop collects twenty-eight essays by instructors of the Clarion West Writers Workshop - essays that illuminate their authors' experiences of writing and of living as professional writers.

Included here is advice for handling writer's block, working with voice, and using allegory, as well as methods for scene-setting, landing a good finish, writing despite distractions, mentoring, and so much more.

Since 1984, the six-week writer's workshop has provided resources to more than 600 science fiction, fantasy, and horror writers, many of whom work today as professional and award-winning authors and editors.

• How to define your "target audience" the right way, so you know exactly how your ideal readers think and feel. Forget what the experts tell you about "demographics."
• How to create a dynamite selling tool that will instantly tell people whether they'll love your story or hate it. And you want them to love it or hate it.
• How to get inside the skin of each of your characters-even your villain. Especially your villain.
• How to find a deep, emotively powerful theme for your story. Do you know the best point in your novel to unveil your theme?
• How to know when to backtrack, and why backtracking is essential to writing great fiction.
• How to fire-test each scene to ensure it's high-impact-before you write it.

About the Author
Randy Ingermanson is the award-winning author of six novels and the best-selling book Writing Fiction for Dummies. He earned a PhD in theoretical physics from UC Berkeley and is known around the worlds as "the Snowflake Guy" in honor of his magically powerful Snowflake Method. Randy lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and daughters, where he attends to the needs of three surly and demanding cats. Visit Randy at AdvancedFictionWriting.com.

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Discover the Proven Blueprint for Creating Stories That Sell

Award-winning author K.M. Weiland's previous book, the award-winning Structuring Your Novel, showed writers how to create stories with strong and compelling plot structure. Now it's time to put those lessons to use Building upon the principles you've already learned, the Structuring Your Novel Workbook presents a guided approach to writing solid first drafts, identifying and fixing plot problems, and writing consistently good stories.

Containing hundreds of incisive questions and imagination-revving exercises, this valuable resource will show you how to:

• Implement a strong three-act structure
• Time your acts and your plot points
• Unleash your unique and personal vision for your story
• Identify common structural weaknesses and flip them around into stunning strengths
• Eliminate saggy middles by discovering your story's "centerpiece"
• And so much more

This accessible and streamlined workbook will empower you to create a powerful structure-and an outstanding novel.

Start writing your best book today

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About the Author
PAULA LaROCQUE Biography Paula LaRocque is a communications consultant who has conducted writing workshops for hundreds of media, government, academic, and business groups in the United States, Canada, and Europe. She was assistant managing editor, writing coach, and frequent columnist at The Dallas Morning News from 1981 through 2001. She also has been writing consultant for the Associated Press, the European Stars & Stripes, and the Drehscheibe Institute in Germany. From 1971 to 1981, she taught technical writing at Western Michigan University's School of Engineering, and communications/writing at Texas A&M, Southern Methodist, and Texas Christian universities. She has been a columnist for Quill magazine since the early 1990s, airs commentaries on the language for National Public Radio in Dallas, and is author of three non-fiction books and a novel: The Book on Writing: The Ultimate Guide to Writing Well Championship Writing: 50 Ways to Improve Your Writing On Words: Insight Into How Our Words Work-and Don't Chalk Line, a Ben Gallagher mystery. Her second novel in the Ben Gallagher mystery series, Monkey See, will be published in 2013. A member of the Associated Press Managing Editors association from the early 1990s through 2001, Paula was elected to the Board of Directors and appointed an officer. In 2001, the association granted her its singular and highest honor: the Meritorious Service Award for exemplary contribution to journalism. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree Summa Cum Laude and a Master of Arts degree from Western Michigan University. Blog and website: www.paulalarocque.com Paula also can be found on Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, and LinkedIn.

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An accessible, contemporary guide to the art of dramatic writing

About the Author

Stuart Spencer's most recent play, Resident Alien, has been produced around the country and been optioned for film. He teaches playwriting at Sarah Lawrence College.

About the Author
The Harvard Independent, founded in 1969, is Harvard University's undergraduate weekly newspaper. It is the oldest university newspaper in America, and the oldest weekly newspaper in Cambridge.