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Hi,
I'm Sandy Richardson, Editor-in-Chief of Southern Sass Publishing Alliances. Thank you for visiting our website and browsing through our pages. I hope you find interesting and useful information that will assist you on your path to publication.

Below you will find a list of books and on-line courses, as well as a few workshop recommendations I have found most useful to my own writing. Many are from my own years of studying the craft, some more recent discoveries than others. You see, even after twenty plus years of study, reading, and writing, I still feel there is so much to learn.

If you're new to writing and publishing, or if you've been at it a while but you're not having the success you'd hoped for, please browse the information below. I can personally recommend each and every book and on-line course listed here because I've read the books and taken the courses myself. 


                                                                                                                            Best of luck with your writing!
           




On-Line Courses and Workshops:  Highly Recommended:  any course with Margie Lawson!!!! Hands down the best specialized courses I've ever taken. Very reasonably priced courses. She also offers lecture packets from her courses for $22 that detail everything covered in the on-line course, in case you missed out one. These are wonderful resources you will refer to again and again. I can't say enough about them.  www.margielawson.com
To Go to Margie's Page for Info
Purchase Stein on Writing
Purchase Stephen King on Writing
Purchase Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Purchase Hooked by Les Edgerton
Purchase Between the Lines by Morrell
Purchase Beginnings Middles and Ends
Purchase Manuscript Makeover by Elizabeth Lyon
Books that Help!
 
To Begin:                                      
*Stein on Writing                  Sol Stein (Still one of the best I’ve found out there!)
  Hooked                                Les Edgerton
  Bird by Bird                         Anne Lamott
*Stephen King on Writing   Stephen King   
                                                                
To Develop
*Conflict, Action, & Suspense                   William Nobel
  Beginnings, Middles, & Ends                        Nancy Kress
  Between The Lines                                       Jessica Page Morrell
 
To Revise:
****any of Margie Lawson's courses!!!!!

*Manuscript Makeover                                   Elizabeth Lyon
 
Anytime
Seven Steps on the Writer’s Path                 Nancy Pickard and Lynn Lott
Lessons From a Lifetime of Writing                            David Morrell
Immediate Fiction                                                       Jerry Cleaver
What IF?                                                                     Bernays & Painter
The Forest for the Trees                                              Betsy Lerner
Turning Life Into Fiction                                             Robin Hemly
The Elements of Authorship                                        Arthur Plotnik
Becoming a Writer                                                      Dorothea Brande
The Artist’s Way                                                          Julia Cameron
The Right to Write
The Vein of Gold
Walking in This World
The Courage to Write                                                  Ralph Keyes
Wild Minds                                                                  Natalie Goldberg
Writing Down the Bones
Thunder & Lightning
Steering the Craft                   Ursula K. LeGuin
Room to Write                                                             Bonnie Goldberg
Leaving a Trace                                                          Alexandra Johnson
Writing Past Dark                                                       Joan Boker, ED.D
Let the Crazy Child Write                                            Clive Matson
Writing with Power                                                     Peter Elbow
Everyday Creative Writing                                          Smith &  Greenberg
Writing the Natural Way                                             Gabriele Lusser Rico
Discovering the Writer Within                         Ballenger & Lane
Words Fail Me                                                Patricia O’Conner
The Writer’s Idea Book                                               Jack Heffron
Writing the Wave                                                         Elizabeth Ayers
Escaping into the Open                                               Elizabeth Berg
Creative Writing                                                          Dianne Doubtfire
 
* Must reads!!!!
 

  • Just Released: Wild, Wonderful 'n Wacky, South Cacklacky
  • SSPA Books
    • His Mother!
    • Prison Grits
    • The Girl Who Ate Chicken Feet
  • SSPA Authors
  • About Sandy
  • Blog: Writing, Reading, and Wandering Thoughts
  • Blog: It's What I Do: I Read, and I Know Things
  • SSPA Events
  • To Schedule Authors for Appearances
    • Resources for Writers
  • Favorite Writing Quotes