About
The Writer’s Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life, Second Edition by Priscilla Long
September 2018; 296 pp.; 5.83 x 8.27
ISBN 978-0-8263-6005-2
The first edition, published by Wallingford Press, is out of print. The second edition is published by University of New Mexico Press.
http://unmpress.com/books/writers-portable-mentor/9780826360052
Available at your local independent bookstore, at the usual online sources, and from University of New Mexico Press.
A guide for writers seeking virtuosity. Designed for both beginning and advanced writers. The second edition is updated to account for changes in the publishing industry and provides hundreds of new craft models to inspire and guide writers in all genres.
The Writer’s Portable Mentor will
- Help you acquire the habits and practices of virtuoso creators
- Guide you in structuring your book, story, or essay
- Open the door to the sentence strategies of the masters
- Give you the tools to develop a poet’s ear for sound
- Train you in observation skills honed by visual artists
- Aid you in completing more works that are more accomplished
- Guide you toward more effective approaches in getting published
- Mentor you in creating a writing life that is more productive and more rewarding.
“A well-organized and immensely helpful guide for writers at all levels to jump-start their creativity, refine their work and approach the realm of virtuosos.” — Shelf Awareness
“The Writer’s Portable Mentor is a choice advisory and very highly recommended.” — Midwest Book Review
“I have never seen anything quite like Priscilla Long’s book. It presents a true alternative for the advanced writer.” — Maya Sonenburg, writer and professor of creative writing, University of Washington
“I especially like the author’s emphasis on craft.” — Ralph Keyes, author of The Courage to Write and The Writer’s Book of Hope
About the Author
Priscilla Long is a master teacher and a prolific, award-winning writer of poetry, essays, creative nonfictions, fictions, science, and history. She has an MFA degree from the University of Washington. Her awards include a National Magazine Award for a scientific and personal work titled “Genome Tome.” Her other books are Fire and Stone: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (University of Georgia Press, 2016), Minding the Muse: A Guide for Painters, Composers, Writers and Other Creators (Coffeetown Press, 2016), Crossing Over: Poems (University of New Mexico Press, 2015) and Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America’s Bloody Coal Industry
(Paragon House, 1989, out of print but easily available on the used book market).
Author’s Website: www.PriscillaLong.com