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How a former fraudster decided to live a life of true-crime writing

Posted on 09/21/2019 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Who better to write true-crime stories than someone who committed such deeds? After years of fraud finally caught up to...

Tagged As: Nonfiction, Scandal

Posted on 09/21/2019 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Many writers struggle to boast about their own books, so quoting glowing reviews is a perfect workaround. And when those...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Marketing

Posted on 09/21/2019 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Merriam-Webster added over 530 words to its dictionary this past week. As usual, some were familiar to us — vacay,...

Tagged As: Diversity, Language, Politics

Posted on 09/20/2019 at 03:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

We have several literary birthdays this week and tomorrow especially, but few of the other authors were as generous with...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Horror, Writing advice

Posted on 09/20/2019 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The longlist for the National Book Award for Fiction came out today. The list includes one previous winner — Colson...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Awards, Book lists

Posted on 09/20/2019 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The Testaments, the much anticipated sequel to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, faced quite the hurdle in terms of critical...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: New release, Women in literature

Posted on 09/20/2019 at 11:12 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Writer’s Digest editor Robert Lee Brewer has been sharing quick language tips on a routine basis. Rather than share them...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Language, Writer's Digest

Posted on 09/20/2019 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The Atlantic recently took a look at what factors set the stage for someone to become a lifelong reader. Unsurprisingly,...

Tagged As: Reading

Posted on 09/20/2019 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The New York Times’s bestseller list for combined print and ebook fiction is out for the week of September 29,...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Bestsellers, Book lists, The New York Times

Posted on 09/19/2019 at 05:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Kristine Kathryn Rusch has been explaining, for literally months, why you need to strategically license your intellectual property. And now,...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Licenses, copyrights, and other legalese, The business of writing