Captivating readers and keeping them invested is one of the many challenges that face fiction writers. Writer, critic, and educator M. Todd Gallowglas explains how Harvard professor James Wood's three languages of fiction ( How Fiction Works ) can...

Finding an audience for your book is an important step in building your author platform and marketing plan. Sometimes it can be difficult to pinpoint your audience, and other times it comes easily. Author Michael R. Crider shares his experiences in...

Finding an audience for your book is an important step in building your author platform and marketing plan. Sometimes it can be difficult to pinpoint your audience, and other times it comes easily. Author Michael R. Crider shares his experiences in...

Dreaming about a finished book manuscript is fun, but actually sitting down and writing a book is hard work. Writing projects are largely self-motivated and that motivation can be hard to conjure. Bobbie Christmas, editor and owner of Zebra Communications...

This two-part session, led by book author and coach Cathy Fyock, will focus on how to write more productively and effectively. Over the course of our two hours together, writers will explore their story ideas through instructor-led writing exercises...

Endorsements are blurbs from experts or other authors that lend credibility to a book, and are an important marketing asset. When authors include them on a book cover, in a book's front matter, and in marketing copy, endorsements can increase readers...

Author Katy Hays discusses how her fascination and knowledge of museums, fortune telling, and art history influenced her favorite passages in her book, The Cloisters . For more on this Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club book, writer, and adjunct art...

The true crime genre, which includes stories about actual crimes and the real people involved, is not a popular choice for writers, says author Carla Norton. Most true crime writers happen upon a story that is personal in some way or so compelling that...

All stories start with a simple idea, but where do those ideas come from? How do we know whether our ideas are good ones? There is likely no one, perfect answer to these questions, but it is always interesting to hear where other writers get their...

All stories start with a simple idea, but where do those ideas come from? How do we know whether our ideas are good ones? There is likely no one, perfect answer to these questions, but it is always interesting to hear where other writers get their...