If we are going to learn to craft words then it is important that we read how the masters of the art wrote. How they build up description and atmosphere in their work. Take one small sentence and see what can be achieved by a master.

Here is what I might write: ‘Lily, was kept [...]

During last week, which was National Library Week, I got to thinking about a book I had read recently about libraries and librarians. It was Marilyn Johnson’s This Book Is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All.

Witty and Provocative. Who would have thought that a book about libraries could be both thought-provoking [...]

It’s a reasonable assumption that all members like a good read but those of us who are parents wonder if the classics of children’s literature in danger of becoming obsolete as young readers shun Oliver Twist in favour of Harry Potter? Does it matter, asks Laura Cummings.

HE IS the famous teacher of pickpockets, a [...]

I couldn’t resist bringing this story to my readers it is all about a glamour model who has struck upon a STARKERS plan to get publicity for her first book.

The blonde stunner is set to appear in an online video to read out the first chapter of her book – completely NAKED.
Author Tracy Williams [...]

Plagiarism: in the words of someone else… there’s little new in literature
A bitter, escalating row over plagiarism engulfed two French novelists last week. But artistic theft has been provoking anger, jealousy and insults since Roman times
When the French novelist Camille Laurens lost her son in childbirth in 1995, she responded with a moving account of [...]

In 1991, a book editor at Random House pulled from the heaps of unsolicited manuscripts a novel about a murder that roils a Baltimore suburb. Written by a first-time author and mother named Mary Cahill, “Carpool” was published to fanfare. Ms. Cahill was interviewed on the “Today” show. “Carpool” was a best seller.

That was [...]

Did you ever try to get sales copy done for your new product only to find out that the person you approached to do it is backed up for about three months? There’s a reason for that.

Good copywriters are hard to come by. And the reason they’re hard to come by is because copywriting [...]

Knowing how to make money writing poetry is essential if you are a modern day poet. Although poetry these days is not as popular as it was before in ages past, it still has a specific market where you can work upon to earn money and improve your skills.

The fall of poetry started when [...]