Recommended
Reading List
for Romance Writers
| Writing - General | ||
| Jack M. Bickham | Scenes and Sequels* | |
| Scene and Structure* | ||
| The 35 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes (& How to Avoid Them)* | ||
| Writing & Selling Your Novel | ||
| Lawrence Block | Writing the Novel from Plot to Print | |
| Blythe Camenson and Marshall J. Cook | Your Novel Proposal, From Creation To Contract* (click on link for review by STAR member Tess Whelan) | |
| Tom Chiarella | Writing Dialogue | |
| Oscar Collier w/Frances Spatz Leighton | How to Write and Sell Your First Novel | |
| Dona Cooper | Writing Great Screenplays for Film & TV | |
| Ansen Dibell | Plot* (click on link for review by STAR member Mia Crews) | |
| Debra Dixon | Goal, Motivation & Conflict | |
| Linda Edelstein | The Writer's Guide to Character Traits* | |
| James N. Frey | How to Write a Damn Good Novel II | |
| Laurie Henry | The Novelist's Notebook | |
| Ann Hood | Creating Character Emotions | |
| Nancy Kress | Beginnings, Middles & Ends* | |
| Anne Lamott | Bird By Bird | |
| Howard Lauther | Creating Characters | |
| Robert McKee | Story: Substance, Structure & Style | |
| Arthur Plotnik | The Elements of Expression | |
| Elizabeth Sinclair | The Dreaded Synopsis | |
| Jerome Stern | Making Shapely Fiction | |
| Dwight V. Swain | Techniques of the Selling Writer | |
| Ronald B. Tobia | 20 Master Plots & How to Build Them | |
| Christopher Vogler | The Writer's Journey, 2nd Ed | |
| Writing Romance | ||
| Elizabeth Benedict | The Joy of Writing Sex | |
| Rita Gallagher & Rita Estrada | Writing Romances | |
| Leigh Michaels | Writing the Romance Novel | |
| Writing Mysteries | ||
| Mystery Writers of America | The Mystery Writer's Handbook* | |
| Shannon Ocork | How To Write Mysteries* | |
| Reference Books | ||
| Renee Baron & Elizabeth Wagele | The Enneagram Made Easy | |
| Sheree Bykofsky | Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Published | |
| Diane Gabaldon | The Outlandish Companion | |
| Bernard Grun | The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events from 4500 B.C. to Present | |
| Leann Lemberger (AKA Leigh Michaels) | Dear Ms. Michaels | |
| Helen Palmer | The Enneagram in Love & Work | |
| Daniel Pool | What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew | |
| Susan Watkins | Jane Austen's Town & Country Style | |
| Punctuation & Grammar | ||
| Patricia T. O'Conor | Woe is I | |
| Margaret Shertzer | The Elements of Grammar | |
| Strunk & White | The Elements of Style | |
| Source Books | ||
| F&W Publications | Romance Writer's Sourcebook | |
| Michael Larsen | Writer's Guide to Literary Agents | |
| Writers Digest Books | Writer's Market - The Internet Edition* | |
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*Writer's Digest Book
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