There is plenty of room for both strong characters and meaningful plot in a romance novel, as romance author Laurie Schnebly Campbell explains. The real star of any romance story, she says, is the growing relationship between the main characters: the...

Research for historical fiction can take many forms. Maybe you spend hours, even days, reading textbooks about the French Revolution. Maybe you stay up all night parsing through firsthand accounts from WWII. When writing The Value of Equality , author...

There is plenty of room for both strong characters and meaningful plot in a romance novel, as romance author Laurie Schnebly Campbell explains. The real star of any romance story, she says, is the growing relationship between the main characters: the...

Research for historical fiction can take many forms. Maybe you spend hours, even days, reading textbooks about the French Revolution. Maybe you stay up all night parsing through firsthand accounts from WWII. When writing The Value of Equality , author...

Aligning expectations is the key to a successful co-authoring relationship. Doug Stone and Shelia Heen, co-authors of "Thanks for the Feedback" explain issues to discuss up front, like roles and how each person perceives/handles deadlines, the writing...

Aligning expectations is the key to a successful co-authoring relationship. Doug Stone and Shelia Heen, co-authors of "Thanks for the Feedback" explain issues to discuss up front, like roles and how each person perceives/handles deadlines, the writing...

The query letter is the letter you send to agents to tell them about your project, and it should be no more than a page. Generally, it’s a few paragraphs describing the project and then a paragraph describing you. If it’s a work of fiction, if you’ve...

Which sells, sex or sexy? The short answer is both sell. Some audiences are impatient, others prefer drawing a little tension-building romance and seduction. The act – and the writing of the act – are of course intensely personal. As with any form of...

David Margolick, author of Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock , offers writing advice for aspiring biographers, including how to pick a person to write about based on your interests and the availability of materials. Margolick says it is...

Inspiration to write a book can come at any point in life. Author and teacher Shiny Burcu Unsal experienced the desire to write a book at the age of thirteen after reading Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch. Although she didn't start a book...