Book reviews from ABH

"Title: How to Write a Best-seller Genre: How-to-book Author: Arthur Zulu Price: $16.00 Publisher: ArthurBookHouse The Writer�s Bible Best-sellers are not the products of explosions in a printing shop. Neither do the writers who write them grow on trees. There are �tricks� which the good writer must employ to write an echo-Bible. These secrets are graciously supplied to the aspiring writer by Arthur Zulu in How to Write a Best-seller. The book begins by dispelling the fears of the young writer and supplying them a list of topics that make run-away best-sellers. The writer is guided through the stages of plot development, characterization, styling, and editing of their story. There are also topics on publishing, promotion�the hardest part of the business�and rich resources for writers. The 20-chapter book is sprinkled with quotations, works of celebrated writers, illustrations, and home truths about writing and publishing. Some of such hard facts are as follows: literary greats paid to self-publish their works, fiction sells most, women read more books than men, and it is promotion that sells books. This eye-opening book, subtitled, �The ABC of Writing,� is therefore an indispensable writing aid to the beginning writer. But as the author says in the book, �only one out of every five �writer� will write a book.� Accordingly, it is only those who take advantage of the hints in this how-to that will �write well.� Says the English philosopher, Sir Francis Bacon: �Reading maketh a man, conference a ready man, and writing, an exact man.� How to Write a Best-seller is written for the �exact man� (and woman). Click below for free book preview: http://www.arthurbookhouse.com "

"Title: Queen Esther Genre: Stage play Author: Arthur Zulu Price: $16.00 Publisher: ArthurBookHouse The Triumph of Good over Evil The scene is Medo-Persian Empire. The king is Ahaseurus. And the disobedient queen who led to the unraveling of the story is Vashti. But these are the only familiar names you might know when reading the play�that is if you have read the Bible book of Esther from which Queen Esther is adapted. In the dramatic re-telling of the account, Esther, called Chamashwork, a beautiful black girl from Ethiopia, replaces Queen Vashti; Rada, Esther�s Ethiopian uncle, reports a conspiracy that saves the king�s life; Haman the king�s prime minister, who plotted the mass death of blacks is hanged on a stake he made for Rada, who eventually becomes the new prime minister; and the Persian law is changed at Esther�s intervention and the blacks are spared death. No doubt, this storyline might provoke a debate. For example, the Jews might take umbrage at the re-writing of their history, for the biblical Esther and Mordecai were Jewish and it was the Jews that were decreed to die, not blacks. Besides that, the author took liberties when he says in the play that Vashti called the king and his princes drunkards, and was exiled to the Philippines (the Bible didn�t state so); and that the law of the Persians was changed (the Persian law is unchangeable). Consider also the reason given by Haman to the king for plotting the death of the black race: �They are more poisonous than all the scorpions in Persia!� Was such an unflattering comparison ever made of the Jews in the Bible version? But it is these little sparks and dramatic scenes that make the tense play an interesting read, a delightful stage play to watch, and will make it a potential hit movie if adapted to screen. In the end, what the reader or audience takes away is not the controversy or the unhistoricity of the work, but the consolationt that in a world replete with vice and hate, good can triumph over evil! For free excerpt, go to: http://www.arthurbookhouse.com "