Millie Benson's desk doesn't stand out from any others in the newsroom. Tucked away in a corner, it is cluttered with papers and books. The original author of the Nancy Drew mystery books, now at age ...

Natalie Goldberg shoots from the hip. The the author of Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, Goldberg is an artist and teacher who doesn't suffer fools, mince words, or waiver in her ...

Sometimes I use this blog for writing tips, some of which can be found here and here. I’ve been in an MFA writing program, listening to advice from bestselling writers and marketing pros. I know well ...

Welcome to a new series, “The Public Writing Life,” about how to write for a popular audience (and get paid for it) when you are part of the academy. There’s plenty of good writing advice out there, ...

Art Spiegelman has been here before. At 63, dressed in black jeans, a denim shirt and that ubiquitous vest, he is talking, again, about his graphic memoir “Maus,” the saga of his father Vladek’s ...

Pearl turns a delightfully poisoned pen toward writers and the writing life — subjects he knows quite well — for a story that ...

Thirty-five million books in print. More than 50 New York Times best-sellers. As the latest of Jayne Ann Krentz’s more than 100 novels rolls off the presses and into the bookstores, it’s safe to bet ...

Wendell Berry’s instructions to rural writers to move back home for renewed artistic inspiration and fulfillment has been followed nearly to the point of cliché. The Kentucky poet, who is the urban ...

It might seem that writers live pretty safe lives. Yes, there are some, mostly journalists, who immerse themselves in troubled and war-torn countries, and they can and do get hurt. But most of us who ...

For literary minded-people, publishing a book can be a lifetime achievement that could earn you significant cash. But since publishing your work is terribly difficult and competitive, you could also ...

Because I am now 100,000 words into a new novel and find myself spinning around two screenplays and two mini-series, it is much easier to look back over my writing career and understand some of what I ...