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 A WHOLE HOST OF IOWA AUTHORS - KEN FUSON
  What a great assignment I’ve given myself: writing about other Iowa authors. Iowa is full of good ones, including Ken Fuson. I’ve been forever a Fuson-fan and am mildly surprised there isn’t some kind of fan club I can join.

Ken collaborated with Kent Stock on Heading for Home. Stock, an Ankeny native, coached the legendary Norway High School baseball team in its final season-and 20th state title-before school consolidation in 1991. A movie, The Final Season, preceded the book, which is available at Amazon and some central Iowa bookstores.

Do yourself a favor and visit Worth Reading right now. Because Ken, and his book, are worth reading about.

A Handbook Worth Your Time
Now Write! Nonfiction [Tarcher Penguin] offers superior exercises from writers, best-selling authors, Pulitzer Prize winners, icons, top memoirists AND ME! But I’m not the reason why I’m jabbering on. Now Write! Nonfiction can come become your writerly bible. It was edited by Sherry Ellis, who gave us Now Write! Sherry has this to say:

Who is your reading audience?
Budding and developing writers of nonfiction who want to hone and enhance their craft, as well as nonfiction readers curious to learn more about the writers they love and the craft of nonfiction.

How should people use your book?
It doesn’t matter where you begin. Just plunge in, pick a page and get started.

What do you want readers to glean from your book?
That the craft of writing of nonfiction is palpable, available and can be understood and implemented by all.

How did you get writers to contribute?
I was lucky. Now Write! Fiction had already been positively reviewed, so nonfiction writers were eager to sign on for this one.

What did you, as a writer-editor, learn?
That the contributing authors of nonfiction exercises are dedicated to submitting clear and useful writing exercises.


 


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