Becoming a published book author is a dream shared by many professionals, but the path to get there can seem complicated and daunting. Who better to offer guidance than those who have successfully ...

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In addition to being an editor at Insider, I'm also a first-time published author. I wrote the bulk of my debut novel, "This Way Out," in just one month in 2020. My key advice is to write what you ...

Jas Rawlinson is an author, ghostwriter, and award-nominated book coach. She says it's common for aspiring writers to struggle to follow through with book ideas. Having an accountability partner is ...

Cindy Kibbe, writing under her pen name C.K. Donnelly, is the author of "The Kinderra Series," an award-winning set of young adult fantasy novels. Like many authors, she self-publishes her work — in ...

FORT SMITH -- Colson Whitehead's first novel was unpublished, rejected by more than two dozen people, and his agent dropped him. But -- though depressed -- he "got back to writing and made the [next] ...

Roy Peter Clark says he never meant to write another book about writing. Clark, a senior scholar at Poynter, had already written or edited 20 books about reading, writing and language. He is perhaps ...

Ever since she was a little girl, Jessie Gaynor has had a passion for books. Whether classic literature or YA fiction, she spent her youth devouring novels. She wouldn't just read them. She would ...

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