The Church publishes the Monitor because it sees good journalism as vital to progress in the world. Since 1908, we’ve aimed “to injure no man, but to bless all mankind,” as our founder, Mary ...

If I think I am writing a book, I become too intimidated. But I know I can write 1,000 words, about the length of a healthy news column. I can even run (or walk) a marathon — if you give me 52 ...

Getting words onto a page can be a painful process. Authors of all abilities, help is within reach! By Judith Newman “Writing is easy,” the sportswriter Red Smith famously said. “I just open ...

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As the literary agent to some of the best writers around - Sara Collins (winner of the Costa Debut fiction award), Jing-Jing ...

Stephen L. Gillett's World Building is one of four books in the Ben Bova-edited Science Fiction Writing Series, and I would certainly recommend that you pick up the other three — Aliens and ...

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 ...

The world is full of confusion. A new book helps writers make sense of it. In ‘Tell It Like It Is: A Guide to Clear and Honest Writing,’ out now, Roy Peter Clark shows writers how to help the ...

The basic format for writing a book proposal couldn’t be more straightforward. It’s so standard you might be lulled into believing it’s simply a matter of filling in the blanks.