"Thoughtful, thorough, and practical in its application, this is an important work on the creative process, and on the craft, business, and magic of writing."
-- from the foreword by Terry Brooks, bestselling fantasy novelist
"A good book about writing will guide you like a torch. You finish it and you've learned some useful lessons; you feel enlightened. But a great writing book is hard to finish because it keeps exploding in your face. All it makes you want to do is write. Everything else: blown away. The Creative Compass is like that, a box of inspiring dynamite. And of course that's just what you want. Boom! Get back to your writing!"
-- Steven Goldsberry, creative writing professor and author of The Writer's Book of Wisdom
"This is a wonderfully insightful guide to the art of transforming ideas and stories into books. It presents old narrative and stylistic truths in a new, highly imaginative way."
-- Stephen Kinzer, author of The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War