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Chapter After Chapter: Discover the Dedication & Focus You Need to Write the Book of Your Dreams
By Heather Sellers
ISBN 1-58297-425-X
Available November 2006

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About the Book

Writing a book requires a focus, a sense of knowing and trusting in yourself and your work. And it requires an unflinching commitment to staying the course. Chapter After Chapter shows you how to build on your good writing habits, accrue and recognize tiny successes, and turn your dedication to the craft into the book you always knew you could write if you could just stay with it.

Heather Sellers, author of Page After Page, draws on her firsthand experience as a novelist, poet, memoirist, and children’s book author to help you prepare for whatever roadblocks you might encounter while writing the book of your dreams. You’ll discover how to celebrate the momentum of slow and steady, stay in love with your book project through soggy middles and long revisions, and embrace the nakedness that is creative expression.

And you’ll realize you’ve got exactly what it takes write your book!

About the Author

Award-winning writer Heather Sellers is a professor of English at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, where she teaches creative writing and writes every day. She has just completed a memoir, Face First, and a new textbook for the college classroom, The Practice of Creative Writing. She is also the author of Georgia Under Water, Drinking Girls and Their Dresses, and the childrens’ book Spike and Cubby’s Ice Cream Island Adventure. Her fiction and poetry appear regularly in journals and anthologies. She enjoys public speaking, triathlons, cooking, kids, and growing Japanese vegetables. Her Web site is www.heathersellers.com.

Praise for Chapter After Chapter

“Every book is a lonely journey, but Chapter After Chapter provides the wisdom, inspiration, and wit needed to help writers go that difficult distance and not feel so very alone.”
—N.M. Kelby, author of Whale Season and the forthcoming Murder at the Bad Girl’s Bar and Grill

“Heather Sellers has written the Great Mother of all Wise Guides, an indispensable roadmap to authorship for both emerging and experienced writers. No need to clear a space on the bookshelf for Chapter After Chapter; writers will want this book in hand as they drive idea toward finished manuscript. Reading this, I lamented not owning a copy before embarking on my current project. Chapter After Chapter would have saved me years of meandering off course through pragmatic tips and helpful exercises designed to fortify against procrastination and to keep me madly in love with my book.”
—Lorraine López, author of Soy la Avon Lady and Other Stories, Call Me Henri, and The Gifted Gabaldón Sisters (to be released by Warner Books in fall of 2007)