The Writer’s Little Books return!

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"The Writer's Little Book of Naming: Tips and Tricks for People, Places, and Things" on a sepia background of names from many different languages and cultures

After a hiatus in which it wasn’t on sale anywhere, The Writer’s Little Book of Naming is now available once again! This is a micro guide to things you might think about while coming up with personal names, place names, and in-world terms for your fiction; it’s a deeper dive than my Patreon essays, in one neat little package.

And yes, this means there are more Writer’s Little Books coming! The Little Book of Platitudes, which takes on common saws of writing advice, will be out next month (you can pre-order it right now), and those two will be followed by new titles: Little Books on research, public reading, various poetic topics, and more. My goal is one a month for a while, though we’ll see how well I’m able to maintain that schedule in reality. It turns out there are a bunch of subjects upon which I have 8-10K words of stuff to say, which is too small for a book book, but excellent for a little focused ebook.

3 Responses to “The Writer’s Little Books return!”

  1. Silas

    Hi,

    Are you planning on these being ebook exclusive? Or do you have plans for a print run at some point?

    Thanks

    • swantower

      That’s a good and complicated question! They’re short enough that print editions would essentially be pamphlets; they’d be too small for me to put the title on the spine, which has usually been my threshold for paperback copies. (It’s part of why my short fiction collections are the size they are.) However, I have considered bundling a few together to make a more substantial book, or alternatively looking into what the production cost would be for the pamphlet versions. You’re not the first person to ask, so it sounds like there’s an audience for that!

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