For Elizabeth McCracken, writing a novel requires attention to matters as small as punctuation and as capacious as the imagined world her characters inhabit.

Many authors are known for one or two books (if they are lucky). Others, however, penned hundreds, if not thousands, of ...

Fiction writers looking for something a little more refined than the general AI writing tools that have flooded the market over the past 12 months. Might be interested in Novel Crafter. you may have ...

After 35 years of teaching fiction writing, the prize-winning author shares her wisdom. First tip? Don’t write what you know… I don’t think it’s a bad thing to want to write a first sentence so ...

Through epic tales of love, sprawling maps of castles, and endless puzzles of mystery, writers can bring fleshed-out worlds to life using different techniques.  While writing, Iowa City area authors ...

Writing a novel is something that many people try, and even more people think about. The most important thing to know before you start is that you don't have a novel inside you. It emerges only as you ...

Grant Faulkner will be at Beaverdale Books in Des Moines on Jan. 23 to promote “something out there in the distance,” a novel ...

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Part of the difficulty horror writing faces has to do with the defenses that modern readers bring to genre fiction. Like virtually every other genre, horror only came into its own as a discrete mode ...

Fresno — There are no wasted words in the fictions of Venita Blackburn. Her stories are quick as lightning; her sentences, entire lifetimes flashing by. A clause might pierce a character’s frailties, ...

Nolan discusses the journey of writing her debut novel, how her journalism informs her fiction and more with the Gulf States ...