For Elizabeth McCracken, writing a novel requires attention to matters as small as punctuation and as capacious as the ...

Margaret Atwood has decided to finally meet her many “body doubles”. No, Atwood doesn’t have literal stand-ins for her appearances, but she does have some shadowy figures tied to her writing output.

This template provides a complete 9-phase pipeline for writing, producing, and marketing a book. It separates infrastructure (always-accessible operational folders) from pipeline (sequential ...

“A writer,” Saul Bellow once observed, “is a reader moved to emulation.” But what if it’s also the other way around? What if, when we think about writing, we are actually teaching ourselves how to ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Five years after penning his memoir, Matthew McConaughey is debuting a new book, 'Poetry & Prayers' Andrea Mandell is the Senior Editor ...

Upon reaching a certain level of renown, an author can expect to be asked why they write. Blame George Orwell, who in 1946 famously published “Why I Write,” an essay contending with the motives of ...

Leslie Gray Streeter wrote “Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like ‘Journey’ in the Title” because it’s the book she needed when she became ...

Former Vice President Kamala Harris announced plans Thursday to cash in on her 2024 election drubbing with a new book titled “107 Days” that promises a “behind-the-scenes” look at the “shortest ...

What if writing a book no longer required months of painstaking effort, late nights, and endless rewrites? Imagine crafting an entire manuscript—complete with polished prose, cohesive structure, and ...

Over the decades that I’ve been a professional writer, dozens of people have told me they want to write a book about their inner and outer lives as cabbies, baristas, pet sitters, pizza deliverers, ...

When most people talk about a book changing their life, they’re talking about a book they read — a book that changed their perspective or way of thinking. But for many authors, writing a book can be ...