Senior Editor Robert Lee Brewer identifies four common ways to write effective hooks for books—based on actual elevator ...

Barbara Kingsolver has put royalties from her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to work in the region it portrayed, starting a ...

Who better to quote about this long process than Herman Melville, author of “Moby Dick,” which many critics consider the ...

Loving this year’s One Book, One Community selection, “Carolina Moonset” by Matt Goldman? If so, how about meeting the author? Yup. That’s right. Goldman is making an author appearance ...

Nightingale isn’t a real person, but rather the pen name of prolific Grande Prairie author Jonathan Whitelaw. It’s also the ...

Imagination can’t be restricted to the real world dimension and possibilities. Fantasy Novels and books are the gateways to ...

Some directors have all the optimism, and Richard Linklater falls into this category. His film career began with chronicles ...

The Expanse had plenty of source material to work through as the series is based on a series of nine novels from James S. A. Corey, which is the joint pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. There ...

A Medical Mystery” and “The Body Transplant” among other novels, radiology professor Heike Daldrup-Link uses storytelling to highlight challenges in healthcare and society.

Mackenzie — 6-foot-2, full of secrets, constantly underestimated — is the most interesting character of all, her surprising ...

Patrick Modiano’s books treat memory and language as something to play around with, almost always with a tremendous payoff ...

Agatha Christie is a master of murder mysteries, making her one of the greatest authors ever. Here are her best books (which ...