On Writing. A Memoir of the Craft.

First edition. 8vo. 288pp. Quarter-bound black cloth over beige paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Jacket design by John Fontana with cover illustration by Shasti O'Leary (priced $25.00 to front flap).

Winner of the 2000 Bram Stoker Award for non-fiction. Named by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 best and most influential non-fiction books since 1923. "If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write." Stephen King's treatise on the craft of writing, originally serialized in The New Yorker. Part memoir, part master class, it takes the reader through crucial aspects of the writer's craft, offering practical and inspiring advice on everything from plot and character development to work habits and rejection. "As well as being genuinely useful, it's a fascinating chronicle of literary persistence, and of a lifelong love affair with language and narrative." –The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, The Guardian