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For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsJilly Cooper, queen of the...

Stephanie Land’s new book, Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education, is out today, so we asked her a few questions about her routine, writing advice, and how...

Quick LinksHow To Unlock Publication There are lots of things your characters can get up to in Star Ocean: The Second Story R. Straying from the main storyline for a...

It was a stormy summer day, dead in the middle of August, with lightning sheeting the sky and a deep underwater gloom pervading the parking deck. My three-year-old had fallen...

In early August, after Andrew Lipstein published The Vegan, his sophomore novel, a handful of loved ones asked if he planned to quit his day job in product design at...

A comic book writer has described a six-year-old boy who created a viral series based on his character as the “comic-making superstar of the future”.Red Smith, six, from Brighton, created...

Avid readers usually have strong opinions and critiques about the literature they consume. Whether it’s fiction, non-fiction or another genre, it helps when interested readers can get a glimpse of...

So you married young. Is this when you started to read romance novels?I had always read. But when I had kids, my reading time was carved down. And I discovered...

Creative-writing programs are designed on the theory that students who have never published a poem can teach other students who have never published a poem how to write a publishable...

In 1967, Kurt Vonnegut corresponded with magazine writer and novelist Richard Gehman, who was about to head off to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop to start a teaching gig. Vonnegut, who...