An excerpt:
Read the entire review at Sabotage Reviews
This book could become the definitive introduction to the form. It’s admirably lean and devoid of ego.
“This is also a good book for creative writing courses and, even better, a book for that old fashioned entity, the solitary writer, the one excluded from academia by not having thousands of pounds.
You could read this book in an hour and go back to it for years. And there’s a hundred prompts at the back for those of you feigning ‘writer’s block’.”