Books recommended by panelist Susan Pollack at "Editing and Being Edited" seminar

EDITORS' ADVICE TO WRITERS:

The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself, Susan Bell, Norton, 2007 [Novelists and nonfiction writers talk about editing themselves and working with editors]

Thinking Like Your Editor: How to Write Great Serious Nonfiction and Get it Published, Susan Rabiner and Alfred Fortunato, Norton, 2002 [One of the best books I've found on preparing a book proposal and a manuscript]

On Writing Well, William Zinsser, HarperCollins, 1976, 2006

ON CRAFT:

Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, Penguin, 2007 [An invaluable reference]

Writing for Story: Craft Secrets of Dramatic Nonfiction by a Two-Time Pulitzer Prize Winner, Jon Franklin, Penguin, 1986 [A classic]

Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer, Roy Peter Clark, Little Brown, 2006

On Writing Well, William Zinsser, HarperCollins, 1976, 2006

INSPIRATION:

Wild Mind: Living the Writers Life, Natalie Goldberg, Bantam, 1990 [excellent source of writing exercises]

Old Friend and Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir, Natalie Goldberg, Free Press, 2007

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, Natalie Goldberg, Shambhala, 1986

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, Anne Lamott, Doubleday,1994