Janet K Smith

Currently Reading Fiction:

The Consuming Fire – John Scalzi

Walkaway – Cory Doctorow

Neuromancer – William Gibson

Fully Loaded – Blake Crouch

The Rapter & The Wren – Chuck Wendig

The Only Harmless Great Thing – Brooke Bolander

Currently Reading Non-Fiction:

The 10% Solution – Ken Rand

Writing with Power – Peter Elbow

The Last Fifty Pages – James Scott Bell

 

Favourite Books:

To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

It, The Stand, The Gunslinger Part 1 through 4 – Stephen King

Shadowland – Peter Straub

A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry

The Life of Pi – Yann Martel

City of Thieves – David Benioff

Recommended Books on Writing:

• Storyteller, Kate Wilhelm
• On Writing, Stephen King
• Eats, Shoots, and Leaves, Lynn Truss
• The Elements of Style, William Strunk, Jr.
• Revision & Self-Editing, James Scott Bell
• The Breakout Novelist – Donald Maass
• Zen in the Art of Writing – Ray Bradbury
• Steering the Craft – Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Emotional Craft of Fiction – Donald Maass
• The Art of Character – David Corbett
• How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy – Orson Scott Card
• Bird by Bird – Anne Lamont
• Story Fix – Larry Brooks
• The Writer’s Journey – Christopher Vogler
• The Chicago Manual of Style
• Putting the Science in Fiction