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How to Swat the Killer Be's Out of Your Writing    by Nancy Owens Barnes
Price: $2.99 USD. 9400 words. Published on August 3, 2010. .

Great story, great plot, great characters, but…! Reliance on the "to be" verbs—the Killer Be's—results in passive writing. How to Swat the Killer Be's Out of Your Writing is a handy booklet designed to assist serious writers in turning their passive voice into active voice and allowing their writing to reach a new level.
5-Letter Words    by Ted Summerfield
Price: $0.99 USD. 5890 words. Published on October 16, 2010. .

Here are 320 fun ways to test your vocabulary knowledge and to discover new words. You are given a word or a series of words and you make as many 5-letter words as you can from that word or series of words. Sound simple? Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. A link to one-look online dictionary is included in each puzzle and solution section. Great fun and a great way to learn new words.
Editor's Notebook    by Kalifer Deil
Price: Free! 6770 words. Published on November 2, 2010. .

This is a guide to help writers edit their own works. It is often very difficult to find many of your own errors. This guide will provide a systematic approach that if followed diligently will get most of them, prepare for e-publishing and improve style as well. Editors are expensive for self publishers to use so I developed this guide to help me do my own editing.
Which Word Do I Use?    by David  Bowman
Price: $1.49 USD. 7260 words. Published on February 11, 2011. .

A guide to using the most commonly confused words correctly.