The whole “eyes gouged out” thing is a teensy exaggeration. I’m not quite willing to do that, though I am ready to fall back on a tired, hoary cliche.

You don’t get to whine if you don’t vote.

Me? I’m voting precisely so I can whine later. It’s not pretty. But with old clients resurfacing and new clients appearing onscreen on an almost daily basis, whining’s pretty much all that’s left to me.

Below are the books that are on the finalists list. Go to Michael Stelzner’s Writing White Papers blog to vote.

• Advertising Secrets of the Written Word by Joseph Sugarman
• Audition by Michael Shurtleff
• Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
• If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland
• Ogilvy on Advertising by David Ogilvy
• On Writing by Stephen King
• On Writing Well by William K. Zinsser
• The Copywriter’s Handbook by Robert W. Bly
• The Elements of Copywriting by Gary Blake, Robert W. Bly
• The Elements of Style By by William Strunk Jr., E. B. White
• The Renegade Writer by Linda Formichelli, Diana Burrell
• The Renegade Writer’s Query Letters That Rock by Diana Burrell, Linda Formichelli
• The Right to Write by Julia Cameron
• The Well-Fed Writer by Peter Bowerman
• Words that Sell by Richard Bayan
• Writer’s Market by Robert Lee Brewer

I’ve got two titles squarely in my sites. Which means - given my luck with lotto tickets, horses, raffles and bingo - I’ve doomed them both. Not to whine or anything.

Source: Michael Stelzner’s Writing White Papers » Blog Archive » Top 10 Books for Writers - The Finalists

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