Choosing Your Topic

Social media spreads ideas quickly, and helps writers keep a finger on the pulse of popular culture, explains Herbie J Pilato, a writer, producer, TV host, and president...

Bestselling author, Sara Paretsky shares how fears and insecurities can enrich your writing if you let it. There’s so much in our “Maybe everyone who writes mystery...

Bestselling author, Sara Paretsky shares how fears and insecurities can enrich your writing if you let it. There’s so much in our “Maybe everyone who writes mystery...

What is a Genre? At its most basic definition, a genre is a way to group things with similar elements. Your book’s genre is the way that it’s identified or categorized...

Fiction writing and nonfiction writing require two very different approaches, and often, two very different parts of the brain. As a former journalist and now fiction...