Book Recommendations from a Book Editor

• Write Naked: A Bestseller’s Secrets to Writing Romance and Navigating the Path to Success by Jennifer Probst

• Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel by Lisa Cron

• Wired for Story: The Writer’s Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence by Lisa Cron

• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

• The Writer’s Guide to Beginnings: How to Craft Story Openings That Sell by Paula Munier

• The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Expressions by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi

• Save the Cat! Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody

• Create Story Conflict: How to Increase Tension in Your Writing and Keep Readers Turning the Pages by Eileen Cook

We hope this list is helpful to some of you! These writing references are novels we’ve read and use regularly ourselves!