Upstate SC American Christian Writers - Writers and poets honing their skills for Christ.
RECOMMENDED
Reading List
Recommended by Jamie L. Turner for Fiction
  • STEGNER - On Teaching and Writing Fiction
  • GARDNER, John - The Art of Fiction
  • PROSE, Francine - Reading Like a Writer
  • RYKEN, Leland - The Christian Imagination
  • MAGAZINE - Poets & Writers
One Editor’s Reference Books
 given by Nancy Lohr
 
Grammar
Fulwiler, Toby and Alan R. Hayakawa. The College Writer’s Reference. Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 2002.

Hargis, Grace. The Writer’s Toolbox. BJU Press, Greenville, SC, 2000.

Style
Associated Press Style Manual, Basic Books, New York, 2009. (for journalism)
 
Chicago Manual of Style, 16 edition, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2010 (for books)
Hudson, Robert, ed., The Christian Writer’s Manual of Style, Zondervan, Grand Rapids, 2004.
 
Usage
Fowler, H.W. A Dictionary of Modern English Usage. Oxford University Press, New York, 1965.
 
Strunk, William, The Elements of Style, Mac1979illan, New York
 
Words Into Type, Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 1974.
 
RECOMMENDED
Authors
NOVELISTS
Rosey Dow
Yvonne Lehman
Sue Graphton
Patricia Cornwell
James Patterson
Lynda Moldrem
Elva Martin
 
POETS
Francis McClain
 
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Theresa Fleming
Vonda Skelton
 
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