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Christopher Mastropietro, John Vervaeke
"Read their book and be illuminated; ignore it at your peril." - Jordan Peterson, New York Times bestselling author of 12 Rules for Life
"Provides a frame for lost souls."…
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Shawn Coyne
Jane Austen’s masterpiece, Pride and Prejudice, has been admired, adapted, and copied by thousands of writers. Her work is still adored by readers all over the world two centuries after…
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The Story Grid Universe represents a new paradigm for publishing, one that charts a course between the Scylla of Big Five Corporate machinery and the Charybdis of chaotic self-publishing. It’s…
David Feherty
Golf is not a game, it’s a punishment. -David Feherty If you’re one of those people who think golf is a religion, prepare for some seriously funny blasphemy. –Troon McAllister…
A witty new compilation of zany columns from the pages of Golf Magazine offers an offbeat look at the sport of golf and its role in modern life and includes…
Steven Pressfield
Deeply personal and profoundly moving…An American Jew has filled me with the love and pride for my brothers and sisters, the Children of Israel. – Randall Wallace, author of BRAVEHEART…
The War of Art meets The Big Lebowski in a ridiculously entertaining unreliable novel from bestselling novelist and non-fiction writer Steven Pressfield.
Jane Austen
Jane Austen’s classic love story annotated by Shawn Coyne, founder of The Story Grid story analysis method. With an introduction by Coyne detailing the obligatory scenes and conventions of the…
No one’s insights about the craft and journey of being an artist have guided me in the day-to-day struggle of this profession more than Steven Pressfield. Wherever you are, whatever…
Tim Grahl
Indispensable!
Steven Pressfield, bestselling author of The War of Art and The Artist’s Journey
This book is the secret sauce…
Barbara Corcoran, founder of The Corcoran Group, author, and Shark…
If you win, you survive. 2. If you lose, you and everyone you love slowly starve to death.
Action Stories speak to ancient human desires. Readers want to experience heart-stopping fear and excitement and learn lessons of survival. How can you write a story that satisfies those desires…
Leslie Watts
Finding the right point of view is one of the most important-and least understood-challenges writers face.
Point of view extends far beyond the choice of first, second, or third person…
Bilbo Baggins, an altogether respectable hobbit, had never done anything unexpected-to say nothing of heroic-until he met a wizard in a blue pointed hat. After that meeting, Bilbo embarked upon…
Dorothy Gale’s trip from Kansas to the Emerald City-in print, on screen, and on stage-has enchanted audiences around the world for more than a century. But what is her magical…
Chad Millman,Shawn Coyne
A stirring portrait of the decade when the Steelers became the greatest team in NFL history, as their city was crumbling around them. In the 1970s, the city of Pittsburgh…
Shawn Coyne,Tim Grahl
What if you could look inside a novel and see exactly how it works, like a doctor analyzing an x-ray or MRI scan?In The Story Grid Contenders Analysis Guide to…
Jim Gant
Major Jim Gant, a man seen by many of us as the ‘perfect insurgent, ’–an inspiring, gifted, courageous leader… – GENERAL DAVID H. PETRAEUS (U.S. Army, Ret.) THE PAPER THAT…
David Leddick
This is a work of genius, a metaphor-studded treasure chest, filled with wisdom for anyone willing to go look. I’ve already ordered ten copies. – SETH GODIN, bestselling author of…
Giora Romm
Praise for Giora Romm’s Solitary Fighter pilots tell the greatest stories and the great ones tell the best stories of all…Solitary is a great addition to any library dedicated to…
What’s at the core of every great story that leads readers to rush breathlessly to the end and then share it with all their friends?
At Story Grid, we believe…
What are the first principles in writing a story that works?
At Story Grid, it’s easy to get distracted by the tools, spreadsheets, commandments, macro lense, micro lense, and on…
Kim Kessler,Leslie Watts
As writers, we all struggle to transform the messy raw materials in our minds into stories that will reach readers’ hearts. When it works, it feels like magic.
But what…
Leslie Watts,Shelley Sperry
What’s the Big Idea? is a primer to understand all four genre categories of Nonfiction, Academic, How-to, Narrative Nonfiction and Big Idea. By explaining the interconnected relationships between the four…
Is it possible to write a nonfiction book that changes minds or even changes the world? On the 20th anniversary of The Tipping Point’s publication, two Story Grid editors decided…
Shawn M Coyne
WHAT IS THE STORY GRID? The Story Grid is a tool developed by editor Shawn Coyne to analyze stories and provide helpful editorial comments. It’s like a CT Scan that…
I am dangling beneath my parachute. Gazing down from a height of 10,000 feet, knowing I am going to be killed in less than fifteen minutes, I feel great sorrow…
Maya Rushing Walker
How does a book written in 1818 by a teenage author remain a classic and a bestseller, still permeating our culture and haunting readers 200 years later?
In this Masterwork…
Mark McLaughlin,Coyne Shawn
COGNITIVE DOMINANCE: Enhanced situational awareness that facilitates rapid and accurate decision-making under stressful conditions with limited decision-making time. Brilliant! Paradigm-blasting and profound. - Steven Pressfield, Bestselling author of Gates of…
