The Storyteller's Art: How Not to Bore Your Reader to Sleep, Tears, or Homicide    by Francis Porretto
Price: Free! 36330 words. Published on February 21, 2010. .
Do you want to tell memorable, vivid, life-altering stories? With plots that embed real knowledge about the natures and ways of men? Do you want to create characters that will haunt your readers' dreams? Do you want to learn the discipline to unite all the above, without overdressing your plots or distoring your characters to make them serve a theme for which they're ill-equipped? Start here!

Creating Realistic Characters    by Harvey Stanbrough
Price: $2.99 USD. 2640 words. Published on February 28, 2011. .
A realistic character is just like a real human being, and the reader should be able to identify with the protagonist, the antagonist, and a minor character or two as soon as he meets them. The more quickly the reader identifies with the character, the more quickly he will become engaged in the story line.

Fallen Heroes: Sixteen Master Villain Archetypes    by Tami Cowden
Price: $4.99 USD. 23400 words. Published on May 15, 2011. .
Product Description The villain is the hero of his own story - and is every bit as important as the heroic characters. This book contains the lectures and exercises from Tami Cowden's popular online class on villain archetypes. The workshop identifies and examines the motivations of the 16 literary villain archetypes, and shows what happens when heroes and heroines turn to the dark side.

Telling Your Tale Boxed Set for Writers: 2-in-1    by Angela Benson
Price: $4.99 USD. 54230 words. Published on June 29, 2012. .
Telling Your Tale: A Beginner's Guide to Writing Fiction for Print and eBook, Telling Your Tale WORKBOOK: A Beginner's Guide to Writing Fiction for Print and eBook

Fiction Writers Screw Ups    by Linda Meckler
Price: $6.00 USD. 5260 words. Published on July 22, 2012. .
This book is a little different from any book on grammar you have ever seen or read. This book is about the way the fiction writer writes from the correct formatting of the manuscript, through the paragraphing of a book. I will get into character dialogue. Dialogue for some writes is very hard. With a few tips it doesn’t have to be that complicated.

So You Want to Commit Novel    by Phyllis Irene Radford
Price: $4.99 USD. 16500 words. Published by Sky Warrior Book Publishing  on August 28, 2012. .
Award-winning science fiction and fantasy author of more than 29 books and editor, Phyllis Irene Radford (Irene Radford, P.R. Frost, C.F. Bentley), gives you the tools to writing the best novel possible in this book. Learn how to really write a synopsis, realistic characters, and even how to get through the muddle in the middle. She tells you how to format for electronic submissions...

The Write It Right Series: Creating Characters    by Tristi Pinkston
Price: $3.99 USD. 11920 words. Published on November 28, 2012. .
Learn how to create compelling fictional characters with depth and personality by adding layers and presenting them realistically. Volume two of the Write It Right series.

Odyssey Two: More Notes from an Independent Writer    by Francis Porretto
Price: Free! 33240 words. Published on December 28, 2012. .
We continue our adventures in the study of story objectives and constraints, in storytellers' techniques, traps, and pitfalls, and in general writerly introspection for a second smash year -- and that "we" means you and I together, Gentle Reader. No "editorial plural" is intended here!