Author Stef Ferrari discusses the audacity of earnestness in fictional characters (and real-life people) and how they can work out.

In this interview, author Shifa Saltagi Safadi discusses the survival stories of her youth that helped inspire her new middle-grade novel, Sisters Alone.

Author Charlotte Lillie Balogh shares seven things that rowing taught her about the process of writing and publishing a book.

Author K. Ancrum shares her family recipe for strong reflective fiction that is sure to engage readers during and after the reading.

In this interview, author Loryn Brantz discusses the personal inspiration behind her new picture book, I Am a Spicy Nugget.

Charlotte Donlon, author of Spiritual Direction for Writers, lays out how writers can build their own writing retreat on a budget.

Bestselling author James Ponti explains his four key rules of creative writing and marketing (and everything else) expected of writers.

Author Rin-rin Yu’s debut middle-grade novel, Goodbye, French Fry, represents a combination of her true childhood experiences and the universal experience of growing into yourself.

Author C.N. Vair shares her list of eight great folk horror books for readers to feel a little unsettled even as they continue turning pages.

Bestselling author J.T. Ellison breaks down writing women who aren’t what they seem in fiction in a way readers love.

This month, trained fighter and author Carla Hoch discusses how knowing the “why” of a fight scene helps us start them on the page.

Author Gabriella Saab shares how her personal ancestry as a descendant of Lebanese immigrants played a role in inspiring her Titanic novel.

Five reasons why journaling about current events can benefit your overall writing practice.

In this interview author Kieran Scott discusses writing a closed-door mystery with her new novel, The Getaway.

Journalist Alison Hill shares strategies and examples for writers to find the deeper (or completely new) stories that readers need.

In this interview, author Kate Westbury discusses finding inspiration from Oxford, classic whodunnits, and spies for her new novel, The Oxford Guide to Scandal and Lies.

Award-winning author Kyla Zhao lays out why the art of wandering is important for creative people in the age of algorithms and echo chambers.

Author Gabbi Calabrese explains why writers and readers can’t afford pretension when it comes to reading…if the goal is more readers.

Author Autumn Krause discusses the process of crafting family trauma from a WWII internment camp into historical fiction and folklore.

In this interview, author Meg Pennerson discusses writing “story presents” for her mother that led to her debut novel, Dragons, Heists and Other Retirement Plans.

Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a crime poem.

Bestselling author Madeline Martin shares why (and how) travel makes her a better writer, especially for writing historical fiction.

Bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan shares strategies to write the satisfying novel endings that readers crave.

Author Emily Charlotte shares four fandom-inspired principles for writing an interconnected (but standalone) romance series readers love.