A Baker's Dozen For Writers: 13 Tips for Great Storytelling

by Pat Spencer

Overview

Unlock your potential with A Baker's Dozen For Writers: 13 Tips for Great Storytelling by award-winning author, Pat Spencer. If you seek to free your imagination from its past confines, this writing guide is perfect for you. With wit and charm, Dr. Spencer shares her expertise on how to write bolder, clearer, and more engagingly.

Pat Spencer's thirteen tips will enable you to infuse passion, symbolism, body language, action beats, and sensory experiences into your prose. As a published author of fiction and nonfiction, Spencer's engaging approach to storytelling makes this book a must read for those wanting to write tales that readers simply can't set aside.

If you liked Stephen King's On Writing or Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird, you'll love Pat Spencer's A Baker's Dozen for Writers: 13 Tips for Great Storytelling. This book is a powerful resource for seasoned writers as well as those just starting out. So why wait? Unshackle your creativity. Treat yourself to this essential guide and create captivating stories today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798881166960
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	04/08/2024
Pages:	132
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Dr. Pat Spencer has a lifetime of experience publishing fiction and nonfiction. Her historical fiction novel, Golden Boxty in the Frypan, inspired by her mother’s coming-of-age experiences during the 1930s, is published with Pen It Publications. Her textbook is published by Milady/Cengage Learning. A Baker’s Dozen For Writers: 13 Tips for Great Storytelling is published with Barnes & Noble. Story of a Stolen Girl is an International thriller. Her literary fiction trilogy, Sticks in a Bundle, is contracted for a three-book debut.

Pat’s short story, A Healing Place, won the 2019 Oceanside Literary Festival. Other short stories and articles are published in journals such as the Literary Yard, Scarlet Leaf Review, Potato Soup Journal, Almost an Author, Vine Leaves Press, and Academy of the Heart and Mind, and a California Writers Circle anthology. Pat authored a column in the Press-Enterprise newspaper and served as a columnist and contributing editor to Inland Empire Magazine.

Pat lived in three countries and seven states. She loves to travel and spent time in Europe, South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia, New Zealand, Australia, Italy, Greece, Mexico, the Galapagos, and the Bahamas, as well as Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands and road-tripping across the continental United States several times. She enjoys getting to know people and learning about their culture.

Dr. Spencer, a retired professor and community college president, lives in Southern California with her husband. She speaks to service and community organizations on human trafficking, writing processes, and her books. When not writing, Pat golfs, reads, walks the beach, hangs out with family and friends, or frequents book clubs and writing critique groups.

Editorial Reviews

Dr. Pat Spencer's book is an essential resource for writers looking to improve their skills and create an engaging reading experience. Writers will benefit from the author's insights on creating vivid scenes, developing deep and interesting characters, and incorporating the five senses. This book receives a perfect five out of five stars and is highly recommended for writers of all levels.

eBook Fair Reviewer.

If you still think 13 is an unlucky number, you haven't read A Baker's Dozen For Writers: 13 Tips to Great Storytelling. A delicious mix of writing hints and wisdom.

Southern California Writers Association - Maddie Margarita