Local novelist, Thom, shares his deep knowledge of how to write books based on real history.  How do you make your characters’ speech, clothing, and activities sound believable when they lived so long ago? This guide covers everything from research to verisimilitude. It will inspire you to try your hand at this fascinating genre.

This guide is as lyrical as its subject. Although it does not offer prompts or exercises, it involves the reader deeply in the poetic process. Highly imaginative, it approaches creative writing as a mystery full of wonder where indirection and shadows often lead the way.

An irreverent but useful guide to a serious craft. Whether you’re reading, writing, or listening to poems, this book will make the experience more joyful and understandable.

In short one to four page vignettes, writing guru Goldberg shares her insights into the writing process. She does this by making writing practice playful, sometimes communal, and always free-flowing. If you suffer from writer’s block, the thirtieth year anniversary edition of the classic will start you writing going again.