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From Solo to Supported: A Writer's Guide to Finding Community
Our culture treats the artist toiling in solitude like a romantic idea, but that’s rarely how it happens in the real…
The Wayward Writer Index
Ariel Gore's book The Wayward Writer is a generous, broad-ranging, comprehensive guide to writing and publishing. It…
The Wayward Writer: Summon Your Power to Take Back Your Story, Liberate Yourself from Capitalism, and Publish Like a Superstar
When your dream and creative passion is to write, how do you succeed without selling out or selling yourself short?…
Make a Zine!: Start Your Own Underground Publishing Revolution
Do you have a passion that you want to obsess about in a love letter to the world? In this new edition of Microcosm’s…
From Big Idea to Book: Create a Writing Practice That Brings You Joy
Want to write a book? Half the battle is finding a practice that works for you. Successful author and creativity…
From Chaos to Creativity: Building a Productivity System for Artists and Writers
Art and writing can be the most fulfilling part of our lives. But it's often difficult to make space for it in our…
Creative, Not Famous: The Small Potato Manifesto
Few artists achieve fame and fortune, but that doesn't mean your creative life can't flourish. Writer, illustrator,…
Quit Your Day Job: Build the DIY Project, Life, and Business of Your Dreams
A practical field guide for creative people with great ideas for independent projects who want to achieve success and…
Unfuck Your Writing: Write Better, Reach Readers, & Share Your Inner World
Want to be a writer, but the words won't come? Do you have a lot to say but don't know how to write it so people will…
Queer Werewolves Destroy Capitalism: Smutty Stories (Queering Consent)
Sexy, capitalism-defying adventures take you around the galaxy in this debut collection of five high-heat erotic short…
Experience Points: Illustrated Queer Smutty Stories (Queering Consent)
Alex Mazor is a transmasculine horror artist struggling to make a living in Toronto. When he invites one of his patrons…
Broke, Not Broken: Personal Finance for the Creative, Confused, Underpaid, and Overwhelmed
A compassionate, friendly, and even fun book about personal finance for the overwhelmed. In a world with fewer and…
Quit Your Day Job Workbook: Building the DIY Project, Life, and Business of Your Dreams
A practical guide and comprehensive workbook for starting a creative business. As an artist, dreamer, or thinker, you…
Radical Sewing: Pattern-free, Sustainable Fashions for All Bodies
You can mend your clothes and make them fit! Radical Sewing is a guide for learning how to make and alter clothes that…
Unfuck Your Worth: Overcome Your Money Emotions, Value Your Own Labor, and Manage Financial Freak-outs in a Capitalist Hellscape
Untangle your emotions and expectations about money so that you can live your best financial life. Without fear and…
Fuck Happiness: How Women Are Ditching the Cult of Positivity and Choosing Radical Joy
Happiness is big business. Books, consultants, psychologists, organizations, and even governments tout happiness…
How to Resist Amazon and Why: The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future!
When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, when their business model relies on preying on local businesses…
Your Life is a Book: How to Craft & Publish Your Memoir
Whether you're writing your memoir for self-exploration, to leave a legacy, or for publication, Your Life Is A Book…
Damn! Why Didn't I Write That?: How Ordinary People Are Raking in $100,000.00... or More Writing Nonfiction Books & How You Can Too!(2nd Edition)
This book is amazing. It's the best book I've ever read on getting your nonfiction book published, hands-down. I know it…
Write Here, Write Now
Discover, imagine, observe, explore, document, draw, share, and play with this illustrated guided journal for tweens.…
Your Art Will Save Your Life
Creating art that emerges from within and sharing it with the community can be overwhelming. Politics, strong opinions,…
Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel
The prevailing wisdom in the writing community is that there are just two ways around this problem: pantsing (winging…
Make It Mighty Ugly: Exercises & Advice for Getting Creative Even When It Ain't Pretty
Fans of DIY projects and crafts will conquer their fear of failure and create their own masterpieces using this fun and…
Rethinking Paper & Ink: The Sustainable Publishing Revolution
A tough and not so glamorous look into the book publishing industry, showing us how to have more sustainable…
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
This book is for those of us who look and get lost in the big picture, the hazy grey skies above us. Those of us who…
How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead: Your Words in Print and Your Name in Lights
You do actually have to write if you want to be a writer, but, ultimately, literary success is about more than putting…
Mastering Plot Twists: How to Use Suspense, Targeted Storytelling Strategies, and Structure to Captivate Your Readers
Whether your writing a memoir, a thriller, or a screenplay, Jane K. Cleland shows you how you to craft the next best…
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity, and its warmth of style. It is a book for anybody…
Pitching Ideas
Conveying your new genius idea to others can be tricky. This book walks you through the different techniques and steps…
Let's Eat Grandma: Everything You Need to Know about Grammar
Grammar is important! Punctuation, in particular, can be the difference between letting grandma know it's time to eat,…
Mind Your Business: A Workbook to Grow Your Creative Passion Into a Full-time Gig
A prompted journal and workbook with everything you need to know about how to build a successful business from scratch.…
Bread of the Resistance: How to Make Sourdough Without Measuring
Build your own culture and resist! Making sourdough bread can be intimidating for most of us. The idea that we need to…
Find Your Voice: A Guided Journal for Writing Your Truth
From the author The Hate U Give and On The Come Up comes this guided journal for discovering your writing voice. By…
Comics Experience Guide to Writing Comics
If you're looking for a reference book or a step-by-step instruction on how to make a comic, you can't go wrong with…
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Our world has become dependent on our constant attention and data production, whether it is in our professions,…
Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor
Workable writing exercises and advice for all creative minds alike. Filled with doodles, collaged images and texts and…
Writing Action: A Book of Writing Prompts
One of the hardest parts of writing is finding that perfect way to describe something as simple as a character walking,…
Writing Character (Lit Starts): A Book of Writing Prompts
Struggling to bring your fictional characters to life? This book offers a variety of intelligently crafted prompts to…
Writing Dialogue: A Book of Writing Prompts
A nifty book of writing prompts, mini lessons, and tips that will help any writer, regardless of skill level, to get…
Writing Sci-Fi and Fantasy (Lit Starts): A Book of Writing Prompts
Writing is a hard task, and writing sci-fi or fantasy can feel even harder. With so many speculative or imagined…
Autism Causes Vaccines: The Scientific Method as An Autistic Worldview
Just about every breakthrough discovery and some of the most innovative inventors in the history of the world have been…
From Chaos to Creativity Workbook: Building a Productivity System for Artists and Writers
Kick procrastination to the curb and start designing your productivity system today! This zine gives you space to start…
Jane: The Legendary Story of the Underground Abortion Service, 1968-1973
Before Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in the U.S. in 1973, the Abortion Counseling Services of Women’s Liberation was…
Why to Resist Streaming Music & How
It is not easy to avoid streaming music, especially when some of the largest companies in the world have worked together…
White Riot / Black Massacre: A Brief History of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
In highly-segregated Tulsa, Oklahoma in June, 1921, a white mob attacked the mostly Black neighborhood of Greenwood.…
Seeds of Spring #1: A Mi'kmaq Teen Discovers Kropotkin, Punk, and Her Place in the World | The Prince & The Birch Tree
"The Prince & the Birch Tree" is the first comic in the 15-part Seeds of Spring series. Naguset begins to learn the…
Revolution Between the Lines Typewriter
What you write matters. What you read matters. Understanding the subtext and context of what you write and read matters…