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Bang! Writing with Impact    by David  Bowman
Price: $6.67 USD. 20610 words. Published on July 20, 2010. .

BANG! Writing with Impact is THE guide for writing with impact. Don't waste your time on books that spend pages and pages on how people have used strategies, the reason why impact is important, the history of writing, or similar meaningless information. Bang! is for people who have work to do. This book tells you how to do exactly what you are trying to do: make your readers pay attention.
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.
Dr. Jargonlove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Technobabble    by Mark Stucky
Price: Free! 870 words. Published on December 7, 2010. .

Why would somebody write "the biota exhibited a 100 percent mortality response" when he really meant all the fish died? Sometimes people use jargon to be taken seriously, sometimes to be clear and precise, sometimes to not work so hard, and sometimes to deliberately evade and confuse. This essay humorously examines the various motivations for using jargon in both good and bad communication.
Writing Great Beginnings    by Harvey Stanbrough
Price: $1.99 USD. 4290 words. Published on February 24, 2011. .

The beginning of a fiction should convey a sense of immediacy, a sense of urgency, that gives the reader no choice but to read the next sentence and the next and the next.
Punctuation for Writers    by Harvey Stanbrough
Price: $4.99 USD. 18700 words. Published on February 28, 2011. .

The knowledge your glean from PFW will enable you to wield punctuation as a tool to direct the reading of your work. It will no longer be just a series of symbols that you fear because their effect on the reader has never been properly explained to you.
Writing Dialect    by Harvey Stanbrough
Price: $2.99 USD. 3130 words. Published on February 28, 2011. .

When it is written well, dialect informs and enhances the reader’s sense of place and character.
How To Write Emails That Get Results. Make Money, Powerful Connections, and Make You Look Great! (FREE BONUS! See Product Description.)    by Elaine Wilkes, PhD
Price: $2.99 USD. 11120 words. Published on September 22, 2011. .

Do your emails move people to take action? Are your emails making you money? Do you know the secrets to getting your emails read? Ever had a professional show you exactly how to write great emails? I’ll show you how . . . or your money back! And for .99 cents (no, that’s not a misprint). Download it now and you’ll never write a bad email again. One email can be life changing.
Writer's Companion    by Carlos Cortes & Renée Miller
Price: $14.99 USD. 246230 words. Published on September 28, 2011. .

The Writer's Companion houses the tools needed to hone a writer's abilities, and it's written in a style a voice that keeps the brain from crying out in frustration or dying of boredom.
Tips for Novice Fiction Writers    by Kevin J. McArthur
Price: $1.99 USD. 26350 words. Published on February 17, 2012. .

Tips, tricks and hints for a novice writer to improve the quality of their writing. Also includes clear descriptions of writing and publishing terms.
How to Write a Story—Second Edition    by Kathleen C. Phillips
Price: $2.99 USD. 34470 words. Published on March 30, 2012. .

Got a story you've been itching to put on paper? Reading How to Write a Story, now in its second edition, is a great place to start. In print for 14 years with Franklin Watts/Scholastic, this valuable book by Kathleen C. Phillips takes aspiring authors—and writers who might like a refresher course—on a thorough tour of what it takes to conceive, draft, revise, and refine a gripping story.