E-booklets Coming Soon . . .

Have you ever picked up a book on writing and waded through two hundred and fifty pages of material when all you needed was the two pages on queries, or the three pages on synopses? Or perhaps all you wanted was a character sheet. Maybe an agent suggested you work on the plot, the premise, or she told you your characters were flat. Instead of spending anywhere between fifteen and twenty-five dollars, why not pay just a few dollars to target your weak area?

Often I've wished I could skip all the extraneous information and get to the meat of the material. That's what our e-books will offer. They will target very specific areas of craft. Here is an example of what we'll be offering in the weeks to come:

• Writing the Killer Synopsis
• To Query or not to Query
• Motion & Emotion
• This Little Query Went to Market
• The Foundation of Story
• The Three F's of Formatting
• Characters in Conflict
• Hook Me if You Can
• A Crocodile Hunters' Guide to the Big Scene

Some of Editing Gallery's future offerings will include "how-to" e-booklets on specific genres such as:

• Thrillers
• Mystery
• Romance
• Children's & juvenile fiction
• Sci-fi/fantasy
• Women's fiction
• Narrative nonfiction
• Memoir
• True Crime
• Mainstream

Watch for upcoming e-booklets, audio tapes, and CD's. In the meantime, browse our bookstore for books on craft. Or e-mail us at carollcraig@cs.com with your suggestions.

Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.
          ~Katherine Anne Porter~