If you want to become a novelist, your first book can feel like a daunting task. But, with the right approach, it can also be a manageable process. Whether you’re starting with a vivid idea or simply ...

All of us word nerds know that books make excellent gifts. Aside from obvious last-minute coffee table tomes (“I remembered how much you love generic landscape photos!”), giving someone a book means ...

The first time I tried to write a novel I was 23. I had all the time in the world. I was a full-time graduate student. I lived alone, I had no children, and it took me three years to finish a draft.

There is a 1991 book you may know by Don DeLillo called Mao II that explores a unique set of problems facing the modern writer. In that book, the reclusive novelist Bill Gray finds himself adrift from ...

Imagine this: you wake up with an idea for a book, and by the time you go to bed, it’s not just an idea anymore—it’s a fully realized, published work. Sounds impossible, right? But in 2025, it’s not ...

A business book can be a strategic asset fostering new revenue streams, but it rarely yields significant profit from royalties alone. Effective marketing and an established platform are crucial for a ...

Jonathan Franzen hands me a journal he’s found in a bin, a record of his day-to-day entries from the summer of 1998. We are in a storage annex next to his office, which is Spartan. There’s a small ...

Shyam Selvadurai is a Toronto-based novelist who has published work in many countries and whose writing has been translated into eight different languages. Shot on location in Sri Lanka, the film ...