For Readers
Yesterday was the sixty-second anniversary of when Russian writer Boris Pasternak declined the Nobel Prize for Literature. The author of Doctor Zhivago had previously told the Nobel committee that he was “immensely thankful” for it, but i...
Stephen King seems to owe Fussy fans a sincere apology, a therapy session, or at least a good nightlight. When we asked which books gave our fans a good scare — guts and gore fully allowed — they told us just how deeply King terrified the...
Today we're interviewing medical-thriller author Geoffrey M. Cooper. Cooper is a retired cancer researcher and academic administrator, having held positions at Harvard Medical School and Boston University as professor, department chair, and assoc...
Fittingly, the 200th anniversary of the publication of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow comes during a pandemic year. Why fittingly? Historian Elizabeth Bradley explained, in a recent NPR conversation, that author Washington Irving fled Manhattan during a...
For Authors
The subtext of so much marketing advice to authors is to have patience and be persistent. Book marketing coach Belinda K. Griffin’s latest advice on growing your author newsletter isn’t going to completely buck those trends, but she does...
Solving the crime shouldn’t be the only challenge your mystery novel’s protagonist faces. Zara Altair suggests giving your detective a few moral quandaries in order to deepen the story overall — after all, who works in a vacuum? Whe...
All of us, whether it’s at home or at work, have certain tasks that they just can’t bear to — or simply cannot, due to a lack of skill or equipment — do themselves. What those tasks are will vary from person to person, but if...
Whether you’re a dedicated gamer or completely befuddled by its appeal, you can’t deny that gaming has a passionate fanbase. And one particularly shining example is World of Warcraft. Author and gamer Moriah Richard has a simple answer to...
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