Jesse Stuart

H -H--IL ave you ever begged your parents for a pet of your own? What kind of animal did you want? The idea of getting a pet can be an exciting prospect. What often gets overlooked is the time and effort required to raise and care for an animal so dependent on you. Having pets can indeed be a heavy...

FOREWORDis book is concerned with writing as a craft, but it is not a "how-to" book. It neither offers keys to the literary kingdom, nor professes special knowledge of short cuts for converting writing aptitude into publishing contracts. What it does do is to deal with writing as a profession or as...

Introduction from the day my father took me to plum grove, a one-room school on a hilltop in Greenup County, Kentucky, I have been trying to write. I was six years old then and didn't know a letter in the alphabet or a word, only by memory. I wouldn't have known a word I had learned from my...