Post Objective:

Provide a list of helpful reference books.

The following list consists of reference books I found helpful (after spending hours searching on-line and in book stores).   There are many more books out there and I certainly welcome others to add to this list.  The list is  broken down into two categories – Writing (Fiction) and Editing.

Writing (the craft) -

• Write Away by Elizabeth George
• Write Great Fiction – Plot and Structure by James Scott Bell

Other Writers Digest Books I have not yet read because they are not available on the Kindle -

• Revision And Self-Editing, Description & Setting, Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint, Write Great Fiction – Dialogue

Editing (the writer’s desk reference) -

• Grammar Desk Reference, Lutz & Stevenson
• A Writer’s Reference, Hacker
• Writer’s Thesaurus, Oxford American
• Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Browne & Kind
• The Elements of Style, Strunk and White