Books I Have Found Helpful
Chicago Manual of Style The University of Chicago Press
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary Merriam-Webster, Incorporated
Roget’s International Thesaurus Edited by Ann Kipfer, Ph.D.
Word Menu by Stephen Glazier
The Elements of Style by William Strunk and EB White
The Emotion Thesaurus – A Writer’s Guide to Character Expression by Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglist
The Copyeditor’s Handbook by Amy Einsohn
Eats, Shoots & Leaves – The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
Characters & Viewpoint by Orson Scott Card
The Copywriter’s Handbook by Robert Bly
The Adweek Copywriting Handbook by Joseph Sugarman
Dynamic Characters by Nancy Kress
The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations edited by Tony Augarde
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Third Edition
The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2015 World Almanac Books
Writing Dialog by Tom Chiarella
Don’t Murder Your Mystery by Chris Roerden
Write Faster, Write Better by David A. Fryxell
Outlining Your Novel by K.M. Weiland
The Extroverted Writer: An Author’s Guide to Marketing and Building a Platform by Amanda Luedeke
Write Your Novel From The Middle: A New Approach for Plotters, Pantsers and Everyone in Between by James Scott Bell