This week I’ve been diving into the world of writing novels, thanks to Stefani Milan’s excellent non-fiction guide to writing your first book. Oh, the Stories You Will Write: A Motivational Guide to Empower Aspiring Authors is an updated and expanded version of the original...

Author Madhu Bazaz Wangu, Ph.D., offers a systematic 365-day program in her self-help book Unblock Your Creative Flow: 12 Months of Mindfulness for Writers and Artists. The book aims to increase the creativity and productivity of those in the fields of writing and art. In...

“Nonfiction indeed comes from a place of reality. It may be spun, twisted, distorted, edited, or even censored, but somewhere in there is a real person, place, or situation.” Based on fact, any form of writing, including nonfiction, requires thorough research and intense attention to...

“Why do I have to rewrite my script just because it has no structure? After all, it is only a story. Can’t I do what I want?” If a student told you that, how would you challenge them? Somdev Chatterjee has faced this question in...

The Complete Beginner's Guide to Self-Publishing for Christians is a comprehensive manual for writers publishing for the first time and those who have published before but need to learn more before writing their next book. Author Sallie Dawkins is an experienced writer and publisher who...

Ending Up Creative: My Search For Renewal Through The Arts by J. William Thompson is a memoir that chronicle's the author's life. A twenty-year career at a magazine ends abruptly when the editorial values that have long sustained publications from being mere advertisements are forcefully...

Over the past decade, book publishing and book marketing have gone through enormous changes. Get Your Book Seen and Sold: The Essential Book Marketing and Publishing Guide by Claudine Wolk and Julie Murkette gives up-to-date information on both book publishing and marketing. The book is...

Winning @ Amazon by Gisela Hausmann is an account of Hausmann's twenty-two-year journey as a self-published author and employee at Amazon, and a reconnoiter of its business model, operations, and treatment of their workforce. Hausmann's early experience of self-publishing on Amazon in 1997 is basically...

How to Construct Chat AI Prompts to Help You Write Your Novel, a manual with sample prompts for writers by Ashley Parker Owens, is a practical how-to guide to using artificial intelligence for your writing. I would consider this to be more of an introduction...

Kids Write a Book by Ray Ronan with Finn and Jake Ronan is a whimsical yet practical motivational guide for young people interested in writing a book and for parents who want to help them. With the help of a wise wizard named Adus and...