1. Carve out some time to write, and then start writing. Now, I bet a lot of you out there have said to yourselves, I'm gonna write my book someday. "And someday tends not to happen in life," says ...

Over the course of a year, writing the first draft of a book is shockingly attainable. At 1,500 words a week—a few hours’ work—you can have a 75,000-word draft written in 50 weeks.

Childhood trauma led Chris Whitaker to write the novel. Meeting readers over the last year spurred him to realize he should ...

Writing books can be the most rewarding thing you ever do in an academic or public policy career. Many people compare writing a book to raising children. I wouldn't go quite that far, and I do not ...

According to Jack Covert, CEO of 800CEOREAD and co-author of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time, there are about 11,000 business books published every year in the US. And that doesn't include ...

To help begin writing your book, here are the steps I've taken when writing my two books as well as a training manual. 1. Determine your area of expertise.

Privileging outputs can steer us away from quality. I am in the midst of revising a book about writing, which has me simultaneously thinking about writing in the context of what I’m saying in the book ...

My friends congratulated me on my book when all I wanted was a baby. "Well, at least you'll be giving birth to your book," they said.

Before you write the first words, create a plan for who the book will serve, how it will reach this audience and how you'll produce it. This will save you a lot of time down the road.

All good pieces of academic writing should have an introduction, and book reviews are no exception. Open with a general description of the topic and/or problem addressed by the work in question. Think ...