This Nonfiction Omnibus contains the complete updated texts of my three best selling writer's guides:

Punctuation for Writers Writing Realistic Dialect & Flash Fiction Quiet the Critical Voice and Write Fiction

None of these are the regurgitated "same old advice" you will find almost everywhere else on the how-to shelves.

Punctuation for Writers is basically the rules as they should read, a completely unique approach to punctuation. It explains how to wield punctuation as a tool rather than react to it as a reader (or fear it.)

I even boiled down the several pages of comma rules you saw in high school and college to five simple rules. Because we don't use punctuation in a vacuum, PFW also includes a grammar refresher.

Writing Realistic Dialect & Flash Fiction does exactly what the title promises: It teaches you how to write realistic, fluid, unstilted dialogue.

WRD & FF explores concepts like why and how authentic, realistic dialogue works to engage the emotions of the reader, why and how narrative is effective when used in conjunction with dialogue, and the appropriate use of dialect.

Finally, in Quiet the Critical Voice and Write Fiction, you'll learn how to push down the overpowering fears and self-doubt that are keeping you from writing or finishing.

The truth is, you've been telling stories since before you even knew there was an alphabet. You can do this, and you can do it well.

Your critical voice is fear-based. It exists to protect you. It keeps you from putting your hand on a hot stove or from crossing the street without checking for oncoming traffic.

That's good. Those actions have actual real consequences.

But it also strives to keep you from writing. It's trying to protect you from rejection by editors and publishers, or from the possible embarrassment you might feel from a bad review.

That fear is baseless. If you write fiction, you will occasionally get a bad review. You will also get many good ones. It's all a matter of the reader's personal taste.

Overcoming that fear and writing fiction has no consequences other than a feeling of elation.

Quiet the Critical Voice and Write Fiction will show you in detail how to recognize and silence the critical it so you can get on with your life's work.

And when you overcome that critical voice, writing fiction will become the most fun you've ever had.