Recs if you like The Happy Writer: Get More Ideas, Write More Words, and Find More Joy from First Draft to Publication and Beyond...

Craft books that have been recommended to me or that I've found and enjoyed!

Books on the craft of writing.

Once, I read a highly acclaimed storytelling book that unsettlingly presented pitching your ideas to strangers in a café as something you absolutely should make a habit of. Yes, the book was written by a white cisgender man. Furthermore, the most recent example of media discussed was a 2002 movie.

So, for the 2026 girlies, here you have storytelling and creative writing books written (or revised) by women AND after 2015. No snooping on strangers, no boobily breasting. I promise✨