安琪拉·阿卡曼 （ Angela Ackerman） 美国作家、写作教练、演讲家，SCBWI（儿童书作家和插画家协会）会员，主要创作以“年轻人的烦恼”为题材的小说。现在和丈夫、两个孩子、爱犬和宠物鱼一起生活在毗邻落基山脉的加拿大阿尔伯塔省卡尔加里。 贝卡·帕格利希 （Becca Puglisi） 美国作家、写作教练、演讲家，SCBWI会员，主要创作面向青年读者的奇幻小说与历史虚构作品，同时也为杂志撰稿。生活在阳光灿烂的佛罗里达南部，平时喜欢看电影、喝含咖啡因的饮料。现在和丈夫及两个孩子生活在一起。

Do your characters smile, frown, sign, or shiver too much? Are their hearts always racing, their breath rushing, or worse, they stand there, doing nothing at all? It’s okay, you aren’t alone. Writing powerful, fresh emotional description can be a challenge…or rather it used to be before The Emotion Thesaurus came along. This bestselling guide helps you break free from tired des...(展开全部)

It’s a writer’s job to create compelling characters who can withstand life’s fallout without giving up. But building authentic, memorable heroes is no easy task. To forge realistic characters, we must hobble them with flaws that set them back while giving them positive attributes to help them achieve their goals. So how do writers choose the right blend of strengths for their c...(展开全部)

Readers connect to characters with depth, ones who have experienced life's ups and downs. To deliver key players that are both realistic and compelling, writers must know them intimately-not only who they are in the present story, but also what made them that way. Of all the formative experiences in a character's past, none are more destructive than emotional wounds. The afters...(展开全部)

Making readers care and feel like they’re part of the story should be the number one goal of all writers. Ironically, many storytellers fail to maximize one of fiction’s most powerful elements to achieve this: the setting. Rather than being a simple backdrop against which events unfold, every location has the potential to become a conduit for conveying emotion, characterizing t...(展开全部)

Do your sentences sag? Could your paragraphs use a pick-me-up? If so, The Writer’s Diet is for you! It’s a short, sharp introduction to great writing that will help you energize your prose and boost your verbal fitness. Helen Sword dispenses with excessive explanations and overwrought analysis. Instead, she offers an easy-to-follow set of writing principles: use active verbs wh...(展开全部)

More than 400 detailed illustrations offer at-your-fingertips reference Clear text, easy-to-navigate organization Not just for artists—invaluable for dollmakers, plastic surgeons, therapists, anyone on the autistic spectrum, many others Artists love this book, the definitive guide to capturing facial expressions. In a carefully organized, easy-to-use format, author Gary Faigin ...(展开全部)

This book contains detailed information on how to draw all the structures of the face and helps the reader to develop the ability not just to draw various facial expressions, but to understand the physiological occurrences that create different expressions. As any student of life drawing or anatomy knows, it's good to know what the engine underneath the hood is doing to get the...(展开全部)

This book corrects common media misconceptions about the nature of the criminal psyche in order to help writers create more credible and convincing characters. The Criminal Mind examines the fundamentals of psychology and law, theories of criminality, and character disorders that can lead to criminal behavior. Writers will learn how criminals think and how forensic psycholog...(展开全部)

“I wrote this book not sure I could follow the road to character, but I wanted at least to know what the road looks like and how other people have trodden it.”—David Brooks With the wisdom, humor, curiosity, and sharp insights that have brought millions of readers to his New York Times column and his previous bestsellers, David Brooks has consistently illuminated our daily live...(展开全部)