Choice Words: The Borgo Press Book of Writers Writing About Writing

The Borgo Press Imprint of Wildside Press has published more than 750 titles in the last three years, including a number of original and reprint volumes on writers and writing. Choice Words presents the thoughts and ideas on writing of a very talented Borgo Press list, a group of men and women who share an abiding love of language in all its forms, and a passion to write and write and write. Contents: "Dispatch from the Front: Never Waste Anything," "Making Things Happen," and "How Not to Starve as a Writer," by Ardath Mayhar; "Paperback Writer," by Victor J. Banis; "Tipping the Odds in Your Favor" and "Writing with Purpose," by Charles Allen Gramlich; "Writing Is Fighting the Familiar; or, 47 Years in the Wake of Adelbert Ames, Jr.," by W. C. Bamberger; "Slanting Can Be Fun and Dangerous; or, Art vs. All That Other Stuff," by Charles Nuetzel; "Choice Cuts," "A Few Words, a Very Few Words, on Writing," and "In Other Words...: Editing Borgo Press," by Robert Reginald; "Preparing and Writing," by Charles Allen Gramlich, Y. Du Bois Irvin, and Elliott D. Hammer; "Images," by Damien Broderick; "Emotion and Intellect in Poetry" and "Saying Much with Little: Some Practical Suggestions for Tightening Bulky Lines in Poetry," by Michael R. Collings; "Plotting a Science Fiction Story," by Brian Stableford; "The Two-Headed Author: The Challenges, Risks, and Rewards of Collaboration," by John Howard Weeks; "Love, Anyone? or, How to Write Sex Scenes," by William Maltese; "Writing for the Stage," by Francis Jarman; and "On Translation," by Frank J. Morlock. Complete with Index and an About the Authors section.