Jami Attenberg, Roxane Gay, Alex Chee, and other novelists explain how to write a book. The first trick is: You have to write a 1000 words every day. The second trick is: You have to have fun.

DANIELLE STEEL books deal with “Family. Courage. Loyalty”, as the cover of one explains. They are also about “Wealth. Fear. Revenge. Love”, as the cover of another has it. Ms Steel herself ...

As she details in her own book, The Author’s Success Code: 9 Secrets to Write and Publish a Book That Will Change Your Life, a key part of publishing a book is the personal transformation it can ...

Tucker Max is a bestselling author. One of his books has sold over two million copies and his company has worked with over 1,800 authors in 6 years. I quizzed Max about exactly how authors can ...

James R. Hagerty’s YOURS TRULY: An Obituary Writer’s Guide to Telling Your Story (Citadel, 224 pp., $25) is supposed to be a guide to writing memoir — whether it’s an actual book or a ...

Every writer needs a reference book to look up troublesome issues of grammar and usage; no one has memorised them all. The quality of such books has improved in recent years, but one from the ...

When I start writing a book, I need to quite literally collect my thoughts. It’s the fun part — when the project is all potential, before the realities of how painful it will be to actually ...

Val McDermid is one of the biggest names in crime writing. The award-winning author has published 27 novels, short stories, non-fiction and a children’s book and has sold more than 10 million ...