The distractions of daily life can make writing a book a frustrating task, so I sought boltholes offering creative support and solitude in inspiring landscapes ...

This week, NaNoWriMo announced that it was officially shutting down. National Novel Writing Month, shortened to “NaNoWriMo”, was a US non-profit organisation that encouraged people to try and write a ...

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

Virginia Evans' debut novel, The Correspondent, was a sleeper hit of 2025. The book tells the story of a divorced woman in her 70s through her letters to her friends, kids, loved ones and strangers.

Every time I turn around, Jami Attenberg has published another novel or memoir. But I do not begrudge her this, because I know how she does it. For years, Jami has enlisted conspirators in writing a ...

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 ...

Jennette McCurdy pivots to fiction with ‘Half His Age,’ a novel exploring complex desire, isolation, and her "funny-sad" ...

As a master procrastinator who nonetheless gets stuff done over time, I’ve never felt entirely comfortable with the idea of pushing myself to write a novel in a pre-set period of time. Still, the ...