She said she had two rules she followed absolutely: to tell the truth, and not to do anything she didn't want to do. Her integrity shines throughout If You Want to Write, her best-selling classic on the process of writing that has already inspired thousands to find their own creative center. Carl Sandburg called this book "The best book ever written about how to write." Yet Ueland reminds us that "Whenever I say 'writing' in this book, I also mean anything that you love and want to do or to make." Ueland's writing and her teaching are made compelling by her feisty spirit of independence and joy.

    Lovecraft Society presents this typographic replica of the original 1938 Futile Press edition of H.P. Lovecraft's Commonplace Book and notes on story writing. Only 75 copies of The Notes and Commonplace Book were originally published in May and June of 1938, just shy of 50 pages. This new edition is augmented with additional material typed, but never previously published by Lovecraft's literary executor R. H. Barlow. Edited by Sean Branney and Andrew Leman. Research by Robert Scott Marshall. Special thanks to S.T. Joshi, David E. Schultz and the John Hay Library at Brown University.