Product Description: Readers will learn how to revise and edit from Jane Smiley. They will find ways to evoke time and place from Richard Russo. Charles Johnson offers a passionate discussion of the writer's apprenticeship. Lan Samantha Chang presents strategies for structuring stories...read more

Product Description: The contributors to Creating Fiction -- members of the Associated Writing Programs -- have won awards such as the Pulitzer Prize. They have led workshops, published stories and novels, and now their experience and wisdom can be found in one landmark book. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A memoir of a year in a large industrial Chinese city recounts the secret traditional bonding of Chinese women and presents individual stories about such women as one so desperate to leave China she will do so as a mail-order bride. 20,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo.