Many of us want to write, but we're not writing! Why? Something is holding us back, and its name is fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, fear of wasting our time, fear that no one wants or needs what we have to say. This is a universal fear...

One of the biggest differences author and film post-production supervisor Sheryl Benko noticed when writing her first book after having written many screenplays, was that a novel required her to describe the characters and setting in more detail. In...

Can journalists write books? Having experience in journalism helps in book writing in many ways. Nina Burleigh, award-winning journalist and author of The New York Times bestselling book The Gift of Fatal Beauty (an Amanda Knox story), shares how her...

Can journalists write books? Having experience in journalism helps in book writing in many ways. Nina Burleigh, award-winning journalist and author of The New York Times bestselling book The Gift of Fatal Beauty (an Amanda Knox story), shares how her...

What separates good novels from bad? What turns a page-turner into a snoozer? What turns your protagonist from someone readers deeply care about to someone they couldn't care less about? Oftentimes the reason boils down to lack of story structure and...

What should an author blog about? Many are uncomfortable talking about details of an unpublished book for fear it may be stolen, and in a way this is a legitimate fear; theft of an idea is notoriously difficult to prove. On the other hand, although we...