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An author recommends strategies for organizing book events that give audience members a chance to connect with one another, opening up conversations rather than defaulting to the formal delivery of a static author reading.
An author who worked for years as a scribe at the Harvard Business School shares the lessons she learned that can be applied to writing, most notably: Believe that what you do is valuable.
It’s a stranger time than ever to exist online. An experienced agent at Frances Goldin advises anxious writers to focus on craft and not let cultivating an online following get in the way of writing the strongest manuscript possible.
Ten authors answer the question: What’s the best piece of writing advice you’ve ever received?
“Your instinct to wait to publish is right. You only get one debut.” —Omotara James, author of Song of My Softening
Ten authors answer the question: What’s the best piece of writing advice you’ve ever received?
“Never assume the reader is not as intelligent as you are.” —Sigrid Nunez, author of The Vulnerables
“It’s always surprising when the book clicks into being an actual book—which I find happens at the very last minute.” —Emma Cline, author of The Guest
The authors of The Invisible Art of Literary Editing engage in a dialogue about textual doneness.
Ten writers, including Roger Reeves and Dana Levin, share the best writing advice they’ve ever received.
