Perspective

Damon Knight, author of "Creating Short Fiction," is a renowned author and respected professor. He had taught at the University of Michigan's Clarion Workshop on Creative Writing for over thirty years. He has provided guidance to many young writing students on the necessary techniques of writing good fiction, especially the short-story genre. "Creating Short Fiction" has a subtitle, "The Classic Guide to Writing Short Fiction" indicating that the work is a teaching book. Damon Knight has the requisite qualifications to author such a book to budding writers around the world. His book has been used extensively in classrooms and workshops everywhere.

Knight not only can write about writing, he brings to the table a plethora of his own successful ventures in writing. He has written over 80 short stories, fourteen novels and three nonfiction books, including "Creating Short Fiction." What better person than a famous and successful writer to...