I can’t overstate how important it is to edit your book before sending it off into the ether. Careful proofreading and double-checking your story’s consistency are key. Editing...

  If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster. ~~Isaac Asimov, science-fiction writer,...

Just about everyone has written a kids’ book. With Madonna, Billy Crystal, Tim McGraw, and every other Jane, Dick, and Jerry producing children’s literature, it’s no surprise that the public thinks...

Unpublished? No problem. That doesn’t mean that your work is any less grand than the most popular author in the country—only that you’re as yet undiscovered. Sometimes. It is also true, all at...

Like many writers, I have warm memories of my first typewriter. I had a few toy typerwriters as a kid, but the one I bought as a teenager with (gasp!) my own money changed my life. I paid $150 in...