FREE e-BOOKS
by Joelle Steele
All of my books are now available only as FREE e-Books, specially formatted PDFs that can be read with eBook reading devices or on computer screens using Acrobat Reader.
Researching and Writing Your Family History
by Joelle Steele - 2009, 3rd ed.
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This book was created to help you, as a family genealogist, when you are researching and writing your family history. It will teach you how to research your ancestry and write your family history. You'll learn how to start your research by using tips for doing online searching and then maintaining your family records. A detailed questionnaire will help guide you and your family members through the process of remembering the past and then compiling your life stories and memoirs, and those of your ancestors. Also included is some information on determining kinship and a genealogical resource guide.
Living and Breathing: How to Make Your Characters Come Alive
by Joelle Steele, 2009, 2nd ed.
Learn to create and develop fictional characters who are living and breathing people, multi-dimensional and believable, whether based on real people or larger-than-life creations from your very own vivid imagination! Publishers want characters that are like real people, and this 44-page eBook will teach you how to make your characters come alive. Included are tips for creating family backgrounds and family histories for a character, examples of many character traits, use of dialect and dialogue, sample character sketches, and some Q&A material taken from the author's classes and workshops.
Unblocked: How to Expand Your Creativity by Overcoming & Preventing Creative Blocks
by Joelle Steele, 2009, 2nd ed.
This 54-page eBook is not just another book on cognitive blocks! There are many different kinds of creative blocks that can not only prevent you from creating but can also inhibit your progress as a human being. In fact, you might be blocked or partially blocked without even knowing it. If you can't get your creative projects off the ground, you're blocked. Now it's time to get unblocked by overcoming and preventing creative blocks. This will allow you to unleash and expand your creativity. This book identifies the six main categories of blocks and describes how to manage them. Whether you are a writer, an artist, or in any kind of creative profession, you can easily learn how to overcome and prevent blocks by identifying their causes and then applying the appropriate solutions.
A Tapestry of Eden: A Memoir of Monterey County
by Joelle Steele, 2009, 2nd ed.
This 30-page eBook is a poetic memoir of Monterey County in California where I grew up and where I also lived and spent time as an adult. It contains poems written between 1974 and 2001, many published previously.
Physics of Love
by Joelle Steele, 2009, 2nd ed.
This 36-page eBook is a collection of poetry, some previously published, that spans three relationships over a period of 28 years, the good times and the bad.
Thursday's Child
by Joelle Steele, 2009, 2nd ed.
This 53-page eBook contains poems, some previously published, written during a time in my life when I was physically ill, was suffering from a traumatic head injury, and for several weeks was living in my car on the streets of Los Angeles. The poems are strange at times and often rather grim, although in the end I did manage to find the light at the end of the tunnel, and that is reflected in some of the later poems.
