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My Year in Oman

Matthew Heines

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An american experience in Arabia during the War on Terror.

Romance Writer's Sourcebook: Where to Sell Your Manuscripts (Romance Writers Sourcebook)

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

A must for pre-published romance authors 5 out of 5 stars.
20 of 20 people found this review helpful.

This is a truly marvelous book, packed with info for us yet-to-be-published romance authors. There's so much here that published folks might find the book useful, too.

Contents in brief:

"New Ground: the Evolution of Romance" and "The Groundbreakers" by Nora Roberts "Mind, Body, Heart and Soul: Creating Fully Developed Characters in Romance Fiction" by Suzanne Simmons "The Well-Chosen Words" by Evan Maxwell "Sense and Sensuality: Sexual Tension and Love Scenes in Romantic Fiction" by Stella Cameron "Happily Ever Laughter: Writing Romantic Comedy for Women" by Jennifer Crusie Smith "Magic, Myth and Metaphysics: Exploding the Boundaries of Romance" by Kristen Hannah Advice from the Heart: Romance Authors Share Their Secrets

(the above sections take up 80 pages)

Marketing Your Romance (including query and cover letter samples) Market Listings: separate listings for each series imprint, most 3 or 4 pages long; more info than one gets from just the plain guidelines.

(this section is nearly 100 pages)

Agents: 3 articles, plus 30 pages of romance agent listings, which include specialties for each agent, etc. Success Stories: "Anatomy of a Sale" for _The Warlord_ and _Mad About You_ (40 pages total) "First Sales" (8 titles discussed) (15 pages) Resources: Online Services Memoirs of a WebMistress by Callie Goble Organizations, Conferences and Workshops, including RWA chapters Contests Nonfiction Magazines and Publications of Interest About the Contributors; Glossary; various indices--the usual backmatter

The chapters on craft are superb. While reading Stella Cameron's chapter on sensuality, I realized why I'd been having such a problem with the erotic short story I'd been working on: I wasn't really into it, and I was trying to write the main sex scene checklist style--exactly what Stella warns against. Stella's suggested exercise helped that story get written properly.

Jennifer Crusie's "Writing Romantic Comedy for Women" gave me a lot of food for thought and some new ideas, as well. I'd never thought before about men and women having different ideas of what's funny, other than general comments about "The Three Stooges" being a guy thing. I'd love to be able to write humor, but I think it's one of the hardest types of writing there is--this chapter helps.

Another part of the Sourcebook I really enjoyed is the Success Stories, where eight authors talk about what led up to their first sales. These are incredibly inspiring to me. After I had the chance to seek out and read some of these first novels, I read the stories of their sales again. It's wonderful to know the behind-the-scenes details and to get reassurance that books aren't just churned out by machines in secret basements in Manhattan.

ROMANCE WRITERS SOURCEBOOK is a must for anyone considering writing a romance novel.

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Writers ardent about romance will welcome this newest addition to Writer's Digest Books' market book line. Romance Writer's Sourcebook combines how-to-write instruction with where-to-sell direction--information useful to both new romance writers and those who long ago embraced the genre.

Barry Hannah: Postmodern Romantic.(Review) (book review): An article from: The Mississippi Quarterly

Martyn Bone

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Title: Barry Hannah: Postmodern Romantic.(Review) (book review)
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Publication: The Mississippi Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2000
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Two Hearts Desire: Gay Couples on Their Love (Stonewall Inn Book Series)

Michael Lassell

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The latest in the Stonewall Inn series of gift books is a glance at gay romance through the eyes and pens of couples. From current lovers, past lovers, and surviving lovers to long-term lovers, those in new relationships, and nontraditional pairings, Lassell and Schimel take a fresh look at the many varieties and flavors of gay male love.

Wordsworth's Profession: Form, Class, and the Logic of Early Romantic Cultural Production

Thomas Pfau

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This book explores Wordsworth’s professionalization as a writer in relation to the cultural and economic ascendancy of the English middle class between 1740 and 1820. Its wide-ranging interpretations are coordinated by a single, albeit highly ramified, critical hypothesis: that Romanticism’s aesthetic forms simultaneously afforded the middle classes an imaginary furlough from the impinging consciousness of their tenuous socio-economic status.

Wordsworth’s Profession analyzes and correlates changing paradigms of authorship, poetic genre, and tone with the demographic and spiritual aspects of middle-class life during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The first of three parts explores Wordsworth’s early descriptive poetry (An Evening Walk, Descriptive Sketches, and “Tinturn Abbey”) in relation to inherited and contiguous aesthetic forms and practices, such as the landscapes of Lorrain and Gainsborough, Kant’s theory of aesthetic communities, and the institutions of domestic tourism and the Picturesque in late-eighteenth-century England.

The second part addresses the construction of a distinctly middle-class paradigm of reading in Lyrical Ballads. It does so in relation to contemporary didactic fiction (Wollstonecraft), anti-didactic writing (Blake), speculative theories of education (Godwin, Coleridge, and Hegel), and the emergent so-called mutual tutor or “monitorial” systems of elementary schooling (Andrew Bell and Joseph Lancaster).

The book’s final part, on The Prelude, focuses on representations of middle-class moral and economic anxiety as mediated in the spirited debate about populousness and public morality. Seen in this context, Wordsworth’s autobiography appears less a confession than an attempt to simulate poetic answers to questions lingering in the national unconscious, questions too vast and threatening to bear conscious asking.

A Cottage in Portugal

Richard Hewitt

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A funny description of the portuguese way of living 4 out of 5 stars.
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This is the story of the first few months in Portugal of Mr. Hewitt, an american who came to Portugal with his wife to live in a small village near Sintra. The descriptions of his deals with the various departments of the portuguese burocracy are definitely hilarious, and sound absolutely true. Although written about events that took place in 1985-6, most of the picture one gets rings true even today. A funny book.

A Cottage in Portugal 4 out of 5 stars.
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I loved this book, but I may be biased because I love Portugal and want to live near Sintra, where this story takes place. It's very amusing... chuckles all the way, with an occasional guffaw.

overall pleasant 3 out of 5 stars.
5 of 6 people found this review helpful.

After having found "A year in Provence" one of the most addictive books I ever read, and having been born and raised in Portugal, I just had to order this book. I give it three stars for the story telling skills and overall pleasant writing style of the author. However, (and I may be biased) I suspect the author may have gone overboard with his assessment of the local culture, describing appalling characters with tiresome and patronizing regularity. Although I have experienced my share of bureaucratic frustrations in Portugal, he was either incredibly unlucky or let his imagination fill in the blanks to make for a more interesting read. Either way, it worked: I enjoyed the book. The beautiful ink drawings are icing on the cake.

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A high-spirited account follows the experiences of Richard and Barbara Hewitt, who left the United States to renovate a three-hundred-year-old cottage in a remote Portuguese village. 15,000 first printing.

How to Write and Market the Regency Romance

Gayle Buck

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Award-winning author of 10 novels, Gayle Buck, takes you step-by-step from the development of an idea to the successful marketing of your work in an easy-to-understand, extremely informative format. Learn the "how-tos" in plot, creating characters, building tension and suspense, using description, marketing, agents and contracts and more in a relaxed conversational style with a touch of inspiration.

The Three Secular Plays of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: A Critical Study (Studies in Romance Languages)

Guillermo Schmidhuber

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Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648-1695) is considered the greatest of Mexican women writers. At age sixteen she entered a convent, where she collected a private library of 4,000 volumes and wrote poetry, prose, and plays. One of the most influential early feminists, she answered a bishop's criticism in a letter that has become a classic defense of the education of women. Traditionally, scholars have attributed only one complete play to Sor Juana, but in 1989 Guillermo Schmidhuber discovered a lost play, The Second Celestina, which he proved conclusively to be Sor Juana's earliest dramatic work. His critical study is the first dedicated exclusively to the secular plays and the first to confirm Sor Juana's authorship of three dramatic pieces. Combining literary history and criticism, Schmidhuber explores the life and originality of Sor Juana's dramas and helps elucidate her enigmatic genius.

Romance Writer's Pink Pages, 1995-1996 Edition: The Insider's Guide to Getting Your Romance Novel Published

Eva Paludan

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Providing the inside scoop on the romance magazine market, networking with other writers, writers' publications, and more, the new edition of this popular guide also contains the names of acquisition editors at major romance publishing houses as well as a complete listing of agents who specialize in romance fiction.

Abrams among the Nightingales: revisiting the greater Romantic lyric.(M.H Abrams)(Critical essay): An article from: Wordsworth Circle

Robert Koelzer

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