Realism & Other Illusions: Essays on the Craft of Writing by Thomas E. Kennedy Subject: For Writers Publisher: Wordcraft of Oregon (USA) Edition Our Price inc. p&p Status first edition trade paperback, 214pp, ISBN 1877655384, 2002 UK only: £9.95 in stock

Here's a book any writer or aspiring one can profit from ... Kennedy covers the craft of fiction from theoretical to practical with an authority derived from his own considerable achievements as a fiction writer. Gordon Weaver

Realism & Other Illusions is a wise and eloquent book about the writer's calling by master story-teller, Thomas E. Kennedy -- it also generously instructs new writers in the art of reading and writing fiction. Pamela Painter

Thomas E. Kennedy is the author of thirteen books, including five of fiction, four of literary criticism and four anthologies. His stories have won the Angoff Award (1988), Pushcart Prize (1990), O. Henry Prize (1994) as well as story competitions by The European (1995) and Gulf Coast (2000). He has served as International Editor for Cimarron Review and is currently an advisory editor for Literary Review. He is on the international faculty of the Farleigh-Dickenson University MFA Program and has taught in the MFA Program of Vermont College, in the Ploughshares/Emerson College International Writing Seminar in the Netherlands and as visiting writer in many other universities and colleges.