For Elizabeth McCracken, writing a novel requires attention to matters as small as punctuation and as capacious as the imagined world her characters inhabit.

Fiction writers looking for something a little more refined than the general AI writing tools that have flooded the market over the past 12 months. Might be interested in Novel Crafter. you may have ...

Through epic tales of love, sprawling maps of castles, and endless puzzles of mystery, writers can bring fleshed-out worlds to life using different techniques.  While writing, Iowa City area authors ...

After 35 years of teaching fiction writing, the prize-winning author shares her wisdom. First tip? Don’t write what you know… I don’t think it’s a bad thing to want to write a first sentence so ...

Good novelists create characters who are complex. unique, and have relatable human needs and feelings. Joyce Carol Oates is one of our best contemporary novelists, and has created a host of memorable ...

The uro-oncologist and author of A Tale of Two Friends on living in the Nilgiris and pivoting to writing fiction ...

Grant Faulkner will be at Beaverdale Books in Des Moines on Jan. 23 to promote “something out there in the distance,” a novel ...

Writing a novel is something that many people try, and even more people think about. The most important thing to know before you start is that you don't have a novel inside you. It emerges only as you ...

Part of the difficulty horror writing faces has to do with the defenses that modern readers bring to genre fiction. Like virtually every other genre, horror only came into its own as a discrete mode ...

Over the years, I’ve published a couple of series supporting teachers who were interested in writing education books. I’ve written or edited 13 education-related books. Now that I’ve retired, I’m ...