Libraries are wonderful places—cozy vaults filled with book-sized treasures that smell of ink and make a delightful shoosh sound as their pages are turned. As kids, who among us didn’t run our fingers along the spines, choosing random books and sitting cross-legged to flip through them, hoping to find the perfect story that would whisk us away to an exciting place or set us on a heart-pounding adventure? Imagination, mystery, and possibility. For many, this is what the library embodies.
No one appreciates this more than authors. We’re intuitively aware that books are not only whimsical and fun; they also represent the transformative power of knowledge.
This storehouse of creative information is the inspiration behind One Stop For Writers®. Like a library, One Stop houses a vast collection of reference materials that are intended to help writers improve their craft. Our library is loaded with one-of-a-kind story and character planning resources unlike anything else available.
Our goal is simple: help writers like you find the information and inspiration necessary to elevate your storytelling, saving you time in the process. After all, isn’t your energy best spent doing what you do best—creating enthralling fiction your readers will love?
Your Resident Librarians
Becca Puglisi, co-founder and CEO, is also the co-author of the best-selling resource The Emotion Thesaurus and its many sequels: The Positive Trait, Negative Trait, Urban Setting, and Rural Setting Thesaurus volumes. These books are available in multiple languages and are sourced by many US universities. As an international speaker, Becca enjoys teaching workshops and presenting various writerly topics at conferences. Between gigs, she has plenty to keep her busy at her Writers Helping Writers blog.
When it comes to writing fiction, her favorites are fantasy and historical fiction. She’s kind of a nut about worldbuilding and can spend as much time planning a new world as writing her characters into one.
Outside of work, you can typically find her baking, reading to her kids, attending Bible studies, or attempting to sleep in. A recovering Mountain Dew addict, she is always looking for a new favorite beverage—one with the health benefits of water but without all the blandness. Music is also a big part of her life, so she can often be heard singing orders to her children, quoting random song lyrics, and exposing her children to the classics—Styx, the Scorpions, Michael Jackson, and other 80s fare.
Angela Ackerman, co-founder and CMO, has also written 10 best-selling writing guides along with Becca Puglisi, sharing her passion for storytelling with writers across the globe. A writing coach and international speaker, Angela believes that writers should never stop striving to learn and grow. Her desire to help writers in new, innovative ways led to a powerful collaboration that became One Stop for Writers®.
In the fiction realm, Angela is sowing her wild oats, playing around with darker themes and interesting plot twists. While her preferred audience is middle grade and young adult, lately she’s been toying with trying an adult thriller on for size.
A Canadian residing near the Rockies, she enjoys traveling with her family, exploring unusual places, collecting zombie lawn gnomes (don’t ask) and she believes life is too short for boring socks. More importantly, Angela is all about helping others, and she strives to pay it forward however she can.
Abhishek Raj is the CTO at One Stop for Writers and the technological force behind the platform’s innovative writing tools designed to empower storytellers. With over a decade of experience in key roles at some of the world’s largest technology companies—including Meta, Apple, and India’s leading audio streaming platform JioSaavn, Abhishek brings deep expertise in building scalable, creative-friendly platforms. His mission is to design user-friendly products that remove friction from the writing process so storytellers can focus on what they do best: creating.
A lifelong learner, Abhishek reads about twenty nonfiction books a year. Some of his favorites include The Psychology of Money, The Black Swan, Zero to One, Shoe Dog, and Steve Jobs. When he’s not diving into a book or writing code, he enjoys hiking in the mountains, playing the drums, and adding stamps to his passport (he’s visited 25 countries so far, with Norway being the latest adventure).
A lover of progressive rock, Abhishek counts Porcupine Tree as his favorite band and often has their tracks playing in the background while he’s hacking away at open source libraries or working on one of his many side projects.
Our Library Doors Are Always Open
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