The publishing path you choose will determine the degree of “perfect” your manuscript should be in before submission. A fiction manuscript must be complete before you query agents or publishers, but there will be some final editing done by the publisher...

I was a major book source seller for many, many years, and I was responsible for booking events. I invariably found that the authors who actually made it an event—the ones who did more than sit behind a table—did much better. If you want people to be...

Freeman Ng's Favorite Writing Location Bridge Across the Sky is a raw and honest historical novel in verse about a Chinese teen who immigrates to the United States with his family and endures mistreatment at the Angel Island Immigration Station while...

When Julia Whitehead first founded the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library she imagined a place where people could learn about Vonnegut's life story and how it influenced and inspired his writing career. What started as an opportunity to honor Kurt Vonnegut...

When Julia Whitehead first founded the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library she imagined a place where people could learn about Vonnegut's life story and how it influenced and inspired his writing career. What started as an opportunity to honor Kurt Vonnegut...

Where do you start with research? There’s so much information in the world, how do we even begin to start writing? Mike Johnson goes through his five categories of research: personal knowledge, documents, friends, internet, and luck. His favorite of...

Where do you start with research? There’s so much information in the world, how do we even begin to start writing? Mike Johnson goes through his five categories of research: personal knowledge, documents, friends, internet, and luck. His favorite of...

There are plenty of rules when it comes to writing, but do we always have to follow them? When is it OK to break them? Author Terry Persun explains that it’s important to learn the rules so that when you break them, you do so intentionally. Writers...