• Appelbaum, Judith - How to Get Happily Published (Harper Collins, most recent edition 1998)
• Browne, Renni and King, Dave - Self-Editing for Fiction Writers (HarperCollins, 1993)
• Curtis, Richard (an agent) - How to Be Your Own Literary Agent: The Business of Getting a Book Published (Houghton Mifflin Co.)
• Lamott, Anne - Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (Anchor Books, 1995)
• Strunk, William, Jr., and White, E. B. - The Elements of Style, Second Edition (MacMillan, 1972)
• University of Chicago Press - A Manual of Style (Univ. of Chicago Press)

SF/Fantasy Writing

• Bova, Ben - Notes to a Science Fiction Writer (Scribners, 1975)
• Bretnor, Reginald, ed. - The Craft of Science Fiction (Harper and Row, 1976)
• Card, Orson Scott - How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy (Writer's Digest Books, 1990); Characters and Viewpoint (Writer's Digest Books, 1988).
• de Camp, L. Sprague, and Catherine C. - Science Fiction Handbook, Revised (Owlswick, 1975)
• Dozois, et al. - Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy, by the editors of Analog and Asimov's magazines (St. Martins Press, 1993)
• Gustafson, Jon M., ed. - SFWA Handbook from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (1995); currently unavailable, but you might check the used book market
• Knight, Damon - Creating Short Fiction (Writer's Digest Books, 1981)
• Koontz, Dean - Writing Popular Fiction (Writer's Digest Books, 1972)
• Kress, Nancy - Beginnings, Middles, and Ends (Writer's Digest Books, 1993).
• Longyear, Barry - Science Fiction Writer's Workshop - (Owlswick, 1980)
• Science Fiction Writers of America - Writing and Selling Science Fiction (Writer's Digest Books, 1976)
• Scithers, George, et al. - On Writing Science Fiction (Owlswick, 1981)
• Scott, Melissa - Conceiving the Heavens: Creating the Science Fiction Novel (Heinemann, 1997)
• Sheffield, Charles - Borderlands of Science: How to Think Like a Scientist and Write Science Fiction (Beanstalk Productions, 1999)