Real-world writing advice, minus all the lectures.
You're an aspiring writer. Maybe you've just discovered your love of words and dream of being a novelist someday. Maybe you've been filling notebooks with science-fiction stories since middle school. Maybe you're contemplating a liberal arts degree, but you don't know what the heck you're going to do with it. The last thing you need is another preachy writing manual telling you how you should...

Lenora's extreme shyness prevents her from attending many social events-- and her father has decreed that only one Wilton girl can be in season at a time. Younger sister Cassie has no choice except to wait her turn. Evan Glenside, an East London clerk, has just been named his great-uncle's heir, and a chance meeting between Evan and Lenora promises to change everything. Cassie begins to write Mr. Glenside letters in the name of her sister. As secrets...

Gooney Bird Greene takes charge of a class project as she and her fellow students in Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade class learn about fables by each making up their own based on an animal that begins with the same letter as their first name.

Clara Everton begins writing to James Thayne as a way to avoid an unwanted marriage proposal, but as the correspondence continues, her feelings deepen.

Grace's aunt Lily is a writer. She works with words every day and teaches Grace interesting words like melancholy and delirious. But Lily is often flummoxed by her own writing. Her stories don't go anywhere, her desk is a mess, and her writers group can't help. So Lily posts an ad for an assistant.The next day, Grace opens the door, and there is Rex: a Labrador Retriever who will change Grace's life, and Lily's.