I like to break my books up into the smallest possible units. “Writing Tools” set the standard: 50 chapters at about 1,000 words per chapter. (Total: 50,000-plus words.) Let’s do the math again: 200 ...

a person would get paid well enough (from a big old book advance?) to take unpaid leave from their day job and spend their time writing that brilliant book. In my mind, at least, they’re tucked ...

She was searching for a children’s book that detailed the first moments of a baby’s life. Coming up empty-handed, she decided to write her own. She titled it First Steps, a story about a baby learning ...

"It is impossible to make a living from writing books in Poland," says the author, who publishes her books in both commercial and museum publishing houses. In response to the ongoing row between ...

Can you smell what the Rock is writing? Dwayne Johnson is set to pen a true crime book about the Hawaiian mob alongside journalist Nick Bilton for Penguin Random House's Crown Publishing Group.

Karunanidhi, as a measure of encouraging and appreciating the writing skills, writings in Tamil of government servants, the rules were amended to the effect that an employee may publish books on ...

As the pasha of the McSweeney’s literary empire and founder of the 826 National literary nonprofit, it’s a surprise that Eggers has time to write books at all (two or three dozen, so far).

But I’m down. If you can talk to Suzanne Collins and tell her to write a book, I’m in. Sign me up.” The new books are set 24 years before the events of the first novel that introduced fans ...

Sze talks discusses his journey to becoming a professional writer and shares a poem from one of his two new books.