Search engine optimization (SEO) is the technology and measurements that determine how all web pages rank in search engine results. For example, when someone uses Google to search for a topic or term, the search engine uses a complex algorithm to determine...

Writing a well-crafted manuscript is important, but it won't happen in the first draft. Thorough editing and revision are required to make your story readable. Editor Helga Schier explains the levels of editing needed to take a manuscript from messy...

Widely recognized as the premier line of beginning readers, I Can Read! books are organized into color-coded levels that address every stage of reading for children. Author Diane Z. Shore had a manuscript ready that she thought could be a beginning...

Widely recognized as the premier line of beginning readers, I Can Read! books are organized into color-coded levels that address every stage of reading for children. Author Diane Z. Shore had a manuscript ready that she thought could be a beginning...

As the son of a librarian, author and Third Day lead guitarist Mark Lee has always had an appreciation for books. He values the role they have played in informing his life. Early on in his musical career Lee consulted books to enhance his songwriting...

As the son of a librarian, author and Third Day lead guitarist Mark Lee has always had an appreciation for books. He values the role they have played in informing his life. Early on in his musical career Lee consulted books to enhance his songwriting...

Annette Leach, Publisher of Uriel Press and Vice President of UMI Book Division, believes what is in your heart really matters when writing a book. The way to make your book shine isn’t through perfect writing, she says, rather through sharing your passion...

When does a fiction novel contain too much fact, and when does it include too much of the writer's own imagination? There is no right answer to this question and every writer approaches balancing fact and imagination differently. For award-winning author...

Some writers think the hero’s journey only applies to fantasy stories, but author, instructor, director, and screenwriter John Henry Davis believes any author can benefit from using aspects of this template. In his 1949 book The Hero with a Thousand...