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GUIDE TO WRITING YOUR AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Many of us regret the fact that we didn't get to know our parents or grandparents well enough and that it is now too late. If only they had left a written record of their lives! So that your descendants won't be left in the same position, now is the time to write your autobiography.
Use this book to help you overcome any self-imposed barriers that may have prevented you getting started, remember more details from your past, improve your writing and identify the best way to organize your memories into a complete book.
The book covers the following key areas:
· The positive and negative reasons for writing an autobiography
· Memory joggers related to the different ways we remember things
· How to improve your writing to bring it to life
· The value of dialogue to 'show not tell'
· Where you can go to fill in the gaps
· Different ways to organize your material
· Using editing and proofreading to get your manuscript up to the highest standard
· Ways to reach a wider audience, including through fiction, magazine articles, talks or a complete book
About the author: Jackie Sherman has been writing non-fiction books and articles for over 10 years and has also worked as an Adult Education Tutor since 1995. Before then, she was a Careers Adviser and has run her own business designing CVs. In 2008 she wrote a distance learning course on Writing Autobiography and has since taught many people to start writing through her popular 5-week courses.
Publication June 2011
Emerald Publishing ISBN 9781847162168 £9.99
A novel for those with a robust consitution
The Potteries, 1829. It's a harsh world and nowhere is it harsher than at the Bone Mill. This is where animal bones are ground down to make into fine china. It's a stinking world of fetid carcases, clanking machinery and tough men. This is Joseph Ryder's world. A teenage orphan, Joseph ekes out a hand-to-mouth living one step ahead of the workhouse, spending his few extra coppers trying to contact his dead mother through his landlady and medium, Gerda. When his foreman, Sewell, offers him a chance to earn a few extra shillings, Joseph jumps at the chance and soon finds himself dragged into a deadly sideline business involving the House of Recovery and the slimy local anatomist, Mr Furness. But not everybody is as they seem and Joseph soon finds himself embroiled in a life of crime from which there seems to be no escape. The Bone Mill is a novel only for those with a robust constitution.
The author: Nicholas Corder is a professional writer-in-residence with the library service at Stoke on Trent City Council. The novel is a collaboration with The Arts Council - England and Stoke on Trent City Council
Publication March 2010.
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Developing Writing Skills and Achieving Success as an Author
This latest book in The Emerald Guides Series Guide to Being a professional Writer, is the perfect book for all those who wish to develop their skills in this area, whether through a course of study or as a hobby.
The book provides the essential knowledge need to approach this growing marketable area with confidence and covers the following areas:
o Carrying out research into your book or project
o Assessing yourself as a writer
o Knowing your market
o Improving style and technique
o Writing fiction
o Writing fiction
o Interviewing
o factual and documentary articles
o Submission of work to editors
Published: October 2007Authors: Professor Stephen Wade is Head of English at the University of Huddersfield teaching and organising writing and media studies. He has published many books, including two further titles for Straightforward publishing, Freelance Writing and Performance Poetry.
Kate Walker has been writing successful romantic fiction for twenty years. She has published over thirty novels for Mills and Boon. She is a member of the Romantic Novelists Association.
MUSIC HOW TO SURVIVE AND SUCCEED IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY
This book is ideal for all would-be musicians and those who require a career in the music industry.
New Perspectives o How to Survive and Succeed in the Music Industry is the first book to combine essential information on how the industry works generally and also specific information for aspiring musicians such as the roles of agents, lawyers, accountants and managers.
The book contains important information on different careers and will prove invaluable to all who want to gain a foothold in the music industry.
Author: Teri Saccone
PRODUCE THE PERFECT C.V. - GETTING THROUGH INTERVIEWS
This first book in the Emerald Personal Development Series Writing The perfect C.V-Getting Through Interviews is an ideal introductory book for the person who needs advice and guidance on constructing an effective C.V and also how to perform at job interviews.
This book will prove an invaluable guide for all those who wish to develop their skills in these areas and is written in a clear concise style accessible to all.
The book covers the following areas in detail:
o Interpretation of job advertisements
o The construction of a C.V in response to advertisements
o Ideal layout
o References
o Sample C.V's
o Introductory letters
o Getting to the interview
o Interview techniques
The author: Caroline Temple has worked as a business advisor in a small business centre for many ears, running seminars and workshops for people who are in need of assistance in the all important areas of designing effective CV's and performing at interviews. Married with two children she lives in East Sussex.
DAMAGE RENDERED - A NEW NOVEL BY JOHNNY RICHARDS
Three locations provide the backdrop for a tale of both satisfying intimacy and yet universal perspective and insight.
This excellent first novel by Johnny Richards is set in the cataclysmic week of 9/11.
The story involves a number of key characters whose lives are inextricably linked by a series of events starting in Montana, moving through New Jersey and finally to Manhattan.
Central to the plot are several victims of injustice, an ex-convict, the wife of a 9/11 casualty, a psychopath and a deranged priest who are caught up in events which change their lives forever.
Damage Rendered is a story about people who are damaged, some of whom are caught up in events beyond their control, some render that damage.
The Author: Johnny Richards is 40 and lives in Hove East Sussex. He has written short stories for publication and this is his first novel.
A PARENTS GUIDE TO PRIMARY EDUCATION
In The Classroom-A Parent's Guide to Primary Education is a user friendly, at a glance guide for parents to what their children are taught at primary school.
It gives a brief description of the more modern teaching methods so that parents can gain a familiarity with, and an understanding of, the processes that their child will go through in the primary school setting. The book covers the development of numeracy, literacy and the wider curriculum from when
children enter school in Reception at age 4, through Key Stages One and Two until the move to secondary school at age 11. It gives parents an insight to what - and how - their children are learning, and suggests a wealth of ways to support that learning at home.
The book covers the following areas:
o Numeracy
o Literacy
o The wider curriculum
o Key stages of development
o Helping at Home
o Moving to Secondary school
The author: Kate Stewart - Kate is a teacher, a school governor and a writer on education. Most importantly she is a parent of two children at primary school and is able therefore to give a parent's perspective on understanding and supporting learning during these important years.