Get Ready for National Novel Writing Month with 5 Fictional Authors
It’s that time of year again, the magical, horrible month when authors, aspiring and otherwise, attempt to write an entire…
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The Girl on the Train Is the Feel-Bad Thriller of the Season
Freshly fallen snow, the smell of evergreen trees, smiling cherub-faced kids all dressed up to meet Santa, gleeful greetings from…
5 YA Books About Artistic Ambition
Artistic ambition is one of those things that seems to preternaturally age you, in part because you’re forced to learn…
Gertie’s Leap to Greatness is Heartwarming and Hilarious
It’s the night before the first day of school, and Gertie Reece Foy, the irrepressible star of Gertie’s Leap to Greatness, is…
8 New Books that Will Inspire Writers of All Ages
Learning to write, and to love writing, can be a wonderful gift. With little more than pen, paper, and imagination, writers…
5 More Singular Women Writers to Read if You Love Nell Zink
Nell Zink burst onto the literary scene in 2014 with her debut The Wallcreeper, an entirely unusual story of a floundering…
Missy Piggle-Wiggle and the Whatever Cure: Whimsical Read Offers Antidote to Boredom
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and her upside-down house first came onto the scene in 1947 when author Betty MacDonald introduced the first…
6 Books that Break Genre Barriers
Writing a book that blends the conventions of more than one genre is admirable. Writing a book that incorporates as…
11 Fictional Parents Who Are Really Nailing This Parenting Thing
Parenting is hard. End of story. It gets especially hard when people expect you to parent a certain way. Sure,…
13 YA Authors Let Us Peek Into Their Teen Years’ Diaries
Diaries are the greatest and they are the worst. If I didn’t still have my diary, how would I remember…
Throwback Thursday: Zoo City Explores the Animal Nature of Cities
I love cities. I might love cites in fiction even more. I love when writers capture the movement and odd…
Six Thriller Writers Who Don’t Cheat when It Comes to Science
As time marches on, technology has reached a point where very few of us have an instinctive or even educated grasp of most…
Throwback Thursday: The Chronicles of Amber Are the Original—and the Next?—Game of Thrones
Once again, fiction is bending reality: season seven of HBO’s Game of Thrones has officially been delayed until the Summer of 2017…
These Brilliant Abandoned Scripts Are Getting a Second Chance
Say you’re a screenwriter with a brilliant idea. You write a script and shop it around. Everyone loves it, but…
Air Is a Soaring Story of Fast-Paced Action and Social Change
Ryan Gattis has been described as the West Coast’s Richard Price, a writer who magically captures the pulse and poetry…
Collaborating, Revising, and Hacking: An Interview with E. C. Myers
It’s a common enough story, but it breaks the hearts of writer types: someone pours his soul into writing a screenplay.…
6 Writers Who Based Fictional Characters on Other Authors
Writers live and die on the strength of their imaginations, but it isn’t too surprising to discover they often crib a…