WRITING THE BREAKOUT NOVEL Donald Maass, Writer’s Digest Books Donald Maass, the author, founded his literary agency in 1980 and since then ...

The book complete with cover is with the printer. A proof copy will be sent to me in the next week and after checking for any errors, it wil...

Last time, I covered beginnings for short stories. They are crucial, because every word has to count in a short story. With a novel, while t...

Born of Joy ‘Sorrow is born of excessive joy’ – Chinese proverb Quite a few years ago our vicar wrote down on slips of paper the many names ...

DO THE BIRDS STILL SING IN HELL? by Horace ‘Jim’ Greasley Appropriately, I finished reading this book on Remembrance Sunday. Long after I...

The followup anthology to Where Legends Ride officially has a title: A FISTFUL OF LEGENDS. James Reasoner has done everyone proud with an ex...

Though this was written before the million-bestseller The Da Vinci Code , and features the same hero, Robert Langdon, it was filmed after Da...

Whether a short story or a novel, the beginning is very important. It's probably the most edited and changed aspect of any written work....

I've just completed my 21st short story featuring this guy; it's a story I've been wanting to write for a couple of years but di...

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is one of four novellas in the book Different Seasons by Stephen King, published in 1982. The film wa...

MISSION, Philip Spires, Libros International, 428pp If you enjoyed Paul Scott’s The Raj Quartet , I suspect that you’ll like this book too. ...

Well, sort of. The book is ZULU – WITH SOME GUTS BEHIND IT! By Sheldon Hall The subtitle of this book is ‘The making of the epic movie”, whi...