Method and Madness: The Making of a Story: A Guide to Writing Fiction
Alice LaPlante teaches creative  writing at San Francisco State University and  Stanford University, where she is a former  Wallace Stegner Fellow. Her fiction has been  published in the Southwest Review,  Epoch, and Stanford Magazine,  and her nonfiction has been published in  Discover, BusinessWeek, and  the San Jose Mercury News, among other  publications. She lives in Palo Alto,  California.