Senior Editor Robert Lee Brewer identifies four common ways to write effective hooks for books—based on actual elevator ...

But after his fall, beginning in his first days in the hospital, Kureishi started to write furiously. A flurry of ...

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For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job. She explains why blurbs matter — and why ...

Writing and endurance sports make for an unlikely comparison, but it’s one that author Lauren Groff does poetically. Groff, a former collegiate athlete who runs, skis and plays tennis, likens writing ...

Loren Ridinger "knew" she wanted to write a book about losing her husband, JR Ridinger, since he had interest in putting pen to paper before his death. "We just ran out of time. It just reminded me of ...

An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets ...