American Society of Journalists and Authors October 2003 – Susan K. Perry, Ph.D More than half of Keyes’ book is devoted to helping writers sustain faith in themselves once they being actively pursuing publication. Keyes makes excellent use of hundreds of anecdotes and quotes from well known writers. For instance, Kipling was told he didn’t …
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Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Heather Lee Schroeder Ralph Keyes … has a new guide out this fall. Titled The Writer’s Book of Hope: Getting From Frustration to Publication (Owl Books, $13), it is a nice companion to his 1995 book, The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear. Not only does Keyes explore what it means to have hope, …
Library Journal
[Ralph] Keyes, a longtime writer and teacher of writing, is best known for The Courage To Write: How Writers Transcend Fear. In this follow-up, he offers words of encouragement to would-be scribes, inviting them to take charge of selling their own work, to be open to new venues of disbursement, and to consider self-publishing. Similar …
Publishers Weekly
To be clear: this is not a guide on how to write a book (Keyes covered that in his last volume, The Courage to Write). Rather, it’s a tool for writers who have found their courage and now need hope: that their work is good, that it will be published despite the inevitable rejections, that …