8 must-read crafts books like Stop Worrying; Start Writing: How To Overcome Fear, Self-Doubt and Procrastination by Sarah Painter

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Stop Worrying; Start Writing: How To Overcome Fear, Self-Doubt and Procrastination

By: Sarah Painter

4.37

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

Do you want to write but can't seem to get started? Are you struggling to finish your novel or frus…

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1. Write to Market: Deliver a Book that Sells (Write Faster, Write Smart, #3)

By: Chris Fox

4.42

Format: 67 pages, Kindle Edition

Many authors write, then market. Successful authors write TO market Have you written a book tha… read more

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  • crafts
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • self help
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2. 5,000 Words Per Hour: Write Faster, Write Smarter

By: Chris Fox

4.20

Format: 88 pages, Kindle Edition

Includes a free spreadsheet to help you track and improve Words Per Hour. 5,000 Words Per Hour also… read more

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  • productivity
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • crafts
  • self help
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3. How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method

By: Randy Ingermanson

4.25

Format: 234 pages, ebook

A Magical Key to Unlock Your Creative Wizard Are you writing a novel, but having trouble getting… read more

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  • writing
  • self help

4. The Pursuit of Perfection: And How It Harms Writers

By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch

2.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this WMG Writer's Guide, international bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch discusses the d… read more

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5. 2,000 to 10,000: How to Write Faster, Write Better, and Write More of What You Love

By: Rachel Aaron

4.18

Format: 72 pages, Kindle Edition

"Have you ever wanted to double your daily word counts? Do you sometimes feel like you're crawling … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • writing
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"Editing is writing. If you like writing, you like editing."

-Rachel Aaron, 2,000 to 10,000: How to Write Faster, Write Better, and Write More of What You Love

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6. Structuring Your Novel: Essential Keys for Writing an Outstanding Story

By: K.M. Weiland

4.32

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

Is Structure the Hidden Foundation of All Successful Stories? Why do some stories work and other… read more

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7. The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface

By: Donald Maass

4.29

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Engage Your Readers with Emotion While writers might disagree over showing versus telling or plott… read more

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"Plot happens outside but story happens inside. Readers won't get the true story, though, unless you put it on the page--both the big meaning in small events, and the overlooked implications of large …"

-Donald Maass, The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface

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8. The Secret Hours

By: Mick Herron

4.29

Format: 384 pages, ebook

Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical … read more

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"We’re the Secret Service. We’re not here to be liked."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"And you can shut your damn mouth too." "Now now. Casual profanity’s the sign of a small fucking mind."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"Come on. You can buy me breakfast." "I've already had breakfast." "So have I. What's that got to do with it?"

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"First Desk enjoyed coincidences the way she liked happy endings: outside of fiction, they were as trustworthy as a Tinder Profile."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

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9. The Road to Roswell

By: Connie Willis

3.74

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

A delightful novel about alien invasions, conspiracies, and the incredibly silly things people are … read more

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10. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)

By: Nghi Vo

4.24

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more

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11. Dear Writer, Are You Intuitive? (QuitBooks for Writers, #6)

By: Becca Syme

4.58

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

When you "just know" how a story should go... When you "have a feeling" about how that ad should… read more

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  • crafts
  • nonfiction
  • writing
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12. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

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  • psychology
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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13. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

By: Cal Newport

3.73

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more

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"What are we really doing here?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

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14. Platform Seven

By: Louise Doughty

3.52

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Platform Seven at 4am: Peterborough Railway Station is deserted. The man crossing the covered walkw… read more

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"The dead don't bother haunting graveyards- they are the last place on earth they need to haunt. The living do that job for them with their messy combination of grief, desire, imagination. There is no…"

-Louise Doughty, Platform Seven

"It's a deal we all make, I remember thinking. What kind of life will I live with this person? All relationships are a balancing act, after all, each individual perched on either side of a seesaw. You…"

-Louise Doughty, Platform Seven

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15. In Ascension

By: Martin MacInnes

3.79

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more

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"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

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16. The Swimmer

By: Graham Norton

3.86

Format: 82 pages, Kindle Edition

Quick Reads 2022 Helen is a retired teacher living on the Irish coast. She enjoys the peace and qu… read more

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17. Plot Gardening: Write Faster, Write Smarter

By: Chris Fox

4.40

Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition

Learn to Plot without sacrificing Creativity What separates great novels from mediocre ones? Story… read more

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18. Good Girls Die Last

By: Natali Simmonds

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Today, nothing is going right for Em. And it's about to get much worse. Heartbroken by a recent … read more

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Cover of Stop Worrying; Start Writing: How To Overcome Fear, Self-Doubt and Procrastination by Sarah Painter

19. Stop Worrying; Start Writing: How To Overcome Fear, Self-Doubt and Procrastination

By: Sarah Painter

4.37

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

Do you want to write but can't seem to get started? Are you struggling to finish your novel or frus… read more

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20. Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

By: Katherine Rundell

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The day Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever.… read more

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"I'm no philosopher, and I prefer, in an ideal world, to go uneaten. (p. 111)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

"What is this rainfall of children? Did I go sailing just to have storms of infants cascading down my sail at me? (p. 74)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

"Nighthand grunted, and signalled for another bottle of wine. "Are you sure?" said Irian. "Shouldn't we keep our wits about us?" "I see no reason to. I prefer the world drunk. It disappoints me less."…"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

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21. Capturing Ghosts On The Page: Writing Horror & Dark Fiction (Writer Chaps)

By: Kaaron Warren

4.56

Format: 33 pages, Kindle Edition

“Don’t write merely to shock. People are used to shock-horror. You need to get beneath the skin. Us… read more

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4.20

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4.25

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3.78

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3.64

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4.00

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