Reprinted from the December 2010 issue of The Writer's Chronicle

• How to Be a Writer, by Barbara Baig. Writer’s Digest Books: $16.99 paper.

• The Nighttime Novelist: Finish Your Novel in Your Spare Time, by Joseph Bates. Writer’s Digest Books: $22.99 cloth.

• Dear Sandy, Hello: Letters from Ted to Sandy Berrigan, by Ted Berrigan. Coffee House Press: $19.95 paper.

• Birds of Wisconsin, peoms by B.J. Best. New Rivers Press: $13.95 paper.

• Life Recipes from my Mother: Timeless Lessons for Living a Contented Life, by Betty Jamie Chung. Haven Books: $15.00 paper.

• Dreaming Man, Face Down, by Mark Conway. Dream Horse Press: $17.95 paper.

• Callings, by Carl Dennis. Penguin: $18.00 paper.

• Still in Print: The Southern Novel Today, edited by Jan Nordby Gretlund. The University of South Carolina Press: $29.95 paper.

• Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir, by Sonya Huber. University of Nebraska Press: $22.95 cloth.

• kinesthesia, by Stephanie M Johnson. New Rivers Press: $13.95 paper.

• Iteration Nets, by Karla Kelsey. Ahsahta Press: $17.50 paper.

• Ghost Stories of the New West, by Denise Low. Woodley Memorial Press: $12.00 paper.

• One Word: contemporary writers on the words they love or loathe, edited by Molly McQuade. Sarabande Books: $16.95 paper.

• torch song tango choir, by Julie Sophia Paegle. The University of Arizona Press: $15.95 paper.

• Have Faith in Your Kitchen, by Katherine Hall Page. Orchises Press: $125 cover, limited, signed ed. cloth; $19.95 paper.

• The Animals Are All Gathering, by Bradley Paul. University of Pittsburgh Press: $14.95 paper.

• Ninth Ward, by Jewell Parker Rhodes. Little, Brown and Company: $15.99 cloth.

• Otherwise Elsewhere, by David Rivard. Graywolf Press: $15.00 paper.

• An Uncommon Heroine: Scarlett, Edna, Sula and more than 20 others of the most remarkable women in literature, by Jamie Cox Robertson. Adams Media: $16.95 paper.

• Vaudeville in the Dark, poems by R. M. Ryan. LSU Press: $17.95 paper.

• The Enemy Good is Better, by Michael Salcman. Orchises Press: $14.95 paper.

• Hunting is Savage, by Jennifer Savitz. Lake Forest College Press: $11.95 paper.

• Crow Mercies, by Penelope Scambly Schott. CALYX Books: $14.95 paper.

• Writing And Publishing: The Librarian’s Handbook. Carol Smallwood, ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 2010: $65.00 paper.

• Visible Heavens, poems by Joanna Solfrian. The Kent State University Press: $15.00 paper.

• We Press Ourselves Plainly, by N S (Nathalie Stephens / Nathanaël). Nightboat Books: $14.95 paper.

• Living Write: The Secret to Inviting Your Craft into Your Daily Life, by Kelly L. Stone. Adams Media: $16.95 paper.

• Pleasure, by Brian Teare. Ahsahta Press: $17.50 paper.

• American Fiction: Volume II, edited by Kirsten J. Tsetsi. New Rivers Press: $17.95 paper.

• Habit of a Foreign Sky, by Xu Xi. Haven Books: $15.00 paper.

• You Have Given Me a Country, a memoir by Neela Vaswani. Sarabande Books: $15.95 paper.

• Beautiful Country, by Robert Wrigley. Penguin: $18.00 paper.