William Cane

Want To Find Your Voice? Learn from the Best. Time and time again you've been told to find your own unique writing style, as if it were as simple as pulling it out of thin air. But finding your voice isn't easy, so where better to look than to the greatest writers of our time? Write Like the Masters analyzes the writing styles of twenty-one great novelists, including Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, Franz Kafka, Flannery O'Connor, and Ray Bradbury. This fascinating and insightful guide shows you how to imitate the masters of literature and, in the process, learn advanced writing secrets to fire up your own work. You'll discover: Herman Melville's secrets for creating characters as memorable as Captain Ahab How to master point of view with techniques from Fyodor Dostoevesky Ways to pick up the pace by keeping your sentences lean like Ernest Hemingway The importance of sensual details from James Bond creator Ian Fleming How to add suspense to your story by following the lead of the master of horror, Stephen King Whether you're working on a unique voice for your next novel or you're a composition student toying with different styles, this guide will help you gain insight into the work of the masters through the rhetorical technique of imitation. Filled with practical, easy-to-apply advice, Write Like the Masters is your key to understanding and using the proven techniques of history's greatest authors.

Emulating the Best of Hemingway, Faulkner, Salinger, and Others

Write Like the Masters

Want to find your voice? Learn from the best! In your development as a writer, you've likely been told to develop your own unique writing style, as if it were as simple as pulling it out of thin air. But finding your voice isn't easy--it requires time, practice, and a thorough understanding of how great fiction is written. Fiction Writing Master Class analyzes the writing styles of twenty-one superior novelists including Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, Franz Kafka, Flannery O'Connor, Ray Bradbury, and many others. This fascinating and insightful guide mines the writing secrets of these exceptional authors and shows you how to use them to develop a writing style that stands out in a crowd. You'll discover how to: Create characters as memorable as Herman Melville's Captain Ahab Master point of view with techniques from Fyodor Dostoevsky Pick up the pace by keeping your sentences lean like Ernest Hemingway Incorporate sensual details like James Bond creator Ian Fleming Add suspense to your story by following the lead of horror master Stephen King And that's not all, Fiction Writing Master Class is your key to understanding and implementing the proven techniques of history's greatest authors, taking your writing to a whole new level of excellence in the process.

Emulating the Work of Great Novelists to Master the Fundamentals of Craft

Fiction Writing Master Class

A kiss is just a kiss...or is it? Since the initial publication of his comprehensive kisser's manual. The Art of Kissing, author William Cane has received thousands of phone calls and letters from readers with questions, concerns, and comments about their kissing techniques. In this revised edition of an international classic (now published in eighteen countries and sixteen languages), he shares their insights, responds to their questions, and calms their kissing qualms with more of the lip-smacking wisdom his fans have been waiting for. N ew topics include: -The kinds of kisses men and women like most (and least!), according to the results of the world's first Internet kissing survey -How to overcome your kissing shyness and kissing anxieties -More lips-on instruction and wisdom from real kissers on how to perfect the first kiss, the eye kiss, the nose kiss, the neck kiss, the public kiss, and the wet kiss, as well as complete instructions for all new kisses, including the butterfly kiss, the friendly kiss, and the lip-o-suction kiss. Lovers everywhere will want to take a buss-man's holiday with his playful, passionate paean to puckering up.

The Art of Kissing

Covers such topics as why hugs are healthy, the different hugging preferences of men and women, how to ask for a hug, and when is the most romantic time to hug

The World-Famous Kissing Coach Offers Inspiration and Advice on Why, Where, and How to Hug

The Art of Hugging

Here are more than 600 of the most passionate, romantic, outlandish, and wonderful classic and contemporary quotations on the intimate art of kissing. The author of The Art of Kissing delivers quotes from such luminaries as Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Kim Basinger, Burt Reynolds, Ingrid Bergman, Kevin Costner, Marilyn Monroe, and William Shakespeare. Line drawings.

A Definitive Collection of the Most Passionate, Romantic, Outlandish, & Wonderful Quotations on the Intimate Art of Kissing

The Book of Kisses

Chiunque sostenga che "un bacio è solo un bacio" non ha mai preso tra le mani il libro cult di William Cane, una miniera di consigli per scoprire tutti i segreti nascosti dietrola magia di due bocche che si sfiorano: come superare la timidezza del primo contatto, aumentare la propria "baciabilità", baciare davvero alla francese. E, ancora, come imparare nuovi trucchi, modi diversi e insoliti per esprimere i propri sentimenti e il proprio desiderio. Un libro dove trovare le migliori tecniche baciatorie, da leggere e mettere subito in pratica, per cambiare, in meglio, il nostro modo di baciare.

L'arte di baciare

In The Art of Kissing, William Cane reveals that there is more to kissing than simply locking lips. Through a hundred thousand interviews he has discovered the truth about what men and women do, think, and feel when they kiss. Their input and his expert knowledge can help you to master the secrets of great kissing. With specific techniques for more than thirty types of kisses, this updated and revised edition features: * Overcoming first kiss shyness * Secrets to increasing your 'kissability' * Complete instructions on French Kissing * Electric kisses, neck kisses, ear kisses and much more Transform your kissing technique, pucker up with passion, and master The Art of Kissing today!

The Truth About What Men and Women Do, Think, and Feel

The Art of Kissing, 2nd Revised Edition

College. For many, it is a place of learning, self-discovery, and growth. But as much as parents don't want to admit it, college is also a time of unabashed exploration, especially for the MTV-drenched and Howard Stern Radio Show-soaked kids of the 1990s. So, it makes perfect sense that The Kissing Show, a performance based on the international bestseller The Art of Kissing, became a near-overnight sensation. Born out of William Cane's Judd Apatow-like desire to woo the woman of his dreams, The Kissing Show appeared at over 400 colleges and universities across the nation. Kissing U.S.A. reveals it all in a sexy (and sometimes shocking) behind-the-scenes look at all the things that were part of making the The Kissing Show a sensation: The comedic and surprising foibles of Cane's own love life The power of listening to and understanding your audience Dealing with competition from drag queens The importance of having a "less-than-ideal" muse The fact that almost anything can be a source of inspiration--if spun the right way Join Cane as he recounts his meteoric rise in the college lecture and entertainment circuit through all the good, the bad, and the awkward kisses that took North American colleges by storm. Who knew playing dentist could ever be a turn-on?

The Story Behind the Story of The Legendary Kissing Show

Kissing USA

Surprise Your Date With a Scene-stealing Kiss!

Smooching Secrets from the Silver Screen

Kiss Like a Star

Luis Castillo

Clubhouse Confidential is the explosive, inside story of Yankees players and managers by a bat boy who saw it all You are invited to come behind the closed doors of the Yankees' clubhouse for the ride of your life in this intimate memoir about the team's recent glory years and the superstars who made it all possible. For the first time ever, Luis "Squeegee" Castillo, bat boy and clubbie for the Yankees from 1998 to 2005, talks about working with Derek Jeter, Andy Pettitte, Jorge Posada, Mariano Rivera, Joe Girardi, Bernie Williams, Roger Clemens, Joe Torre, and many other modern-day Yankee greats. Luis saw and heard what really happened in the privacy of the clubhouse, at parties, and in hotel rooms, bar fights, and secret meetings from Miami to St. Louis, from Detroit to Arizona, and from Toronto to New York. He even vacationed with some players and got to know them like family, discovering their pitching and hitting secrets, joining them in all-nighters, and learning their often hilarious methods of meeting girls and having fun on the road. Like a fly on the wall, Luis takes you backstage to show you how A-Rod's bragging when he hits home runs annoys teammates. Discover how manager Joe Torre checks racing results during games. Hear what happens inside the sanctity of the clubhouse after Roger Clemens beans Mets catcher Mike Piazza and then-a few months later during the 2000 World Series-throws a bat at him. Find out how Mariano Rivera eats junk food during games, why Posada routinely fights with El Duque, what Jeter is really saying to players on other teams as he rounds the bases, and so much more. Everyone knows what happened on the field. Now pull up a chair and enjoy the secret stories that only Luis can tell about what really happened behind the scenes-and why.

A Yankee Bat Boy's Insider Tale of Wild Nights, Gambling, and Good Times with Modern Baseball's Greatest Team

Clubhouse Confidential

In How to French Kiss with Confidence, William Cane reveals that there is more to French kissing than simply locking lips and wiggling tongues. Through a hundred thousand interviews he has discovered the truth about what men and women do, think, and feel when they French kiss. Their input and his expert knowledge can help you to master the secrets of great French kissing.

Master the Secrets of Great French Kissing

How to French-Kiss with Confidence

From Lord Byron's "first kiss of love" to Kevin Costner's "long slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last for three days, " The Book of Kisses contains the most charming, witty and memorable quips to cross the lips of such famous and infamous kissers as Bette Davis, Elizabeth Taylor, Madonna, Boris Yeltsin, Walter Cronkite, and hundreds of others. The quotes cover first kisses (Errol Flynn, Elizabeth Barrett Browning) funny kisses (Jay Leno, Minnie Pearl), sensual kisses, romantic kisses, literary kisses, celebrity and movie-star kisses (Burt Reynolds, Kim Basinger), kissing definitions (Ingrid Bergman, Mickey Spillane), kissing proverbs, kissing advice and techniques (William Shakespeare, Louis Armstrong, Ronald Reagan), and kissing quotes from around the world. Who could forget legendary celluloid smooches like Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis's kiss in Some Like It Hot or Woody Allen and Diane Keaton's first kiss in Annie Hall? Or the first time F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gatsby kisses his beloved Daisy: "at his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower"? From Earnest Hemmingway to Spike Lee, from Napoleon and Josephine to Ryan O'Neal and Farrah Fawcett, The Book of Kisses provides plenty of pucker power and passionate inspiration for anyone searching for words to describe that elusive, soul-touching thrill of the perfect kiss.

In the ultimate, updated guide to puckering up, a kissing expert helps readers improve their technique, master the various forms (including French and Neck kissing), discover the most sensual kinds of kissing, and much more. Original. 25,000 first printing.

In How to Kiss with Confidence, William Cane reveals that there is more to kissing than simply locking lips. Through a hundred thousand interviews he has discovered the truth about what men and women do, think, and feel when they kiss. Their input and his expert knowledge can help you to master the secrets of great kissing.

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