How-to guides

Writing for the web is all about establishing your own internet presence. How to do all this, and especially how ...

A marketable book is one that can be successfully marketed, whether trade published or self-published. Charlie ...

Playwriting has parallels with screenwriting in that structure is very important, and you start by deciding on ...

Teach Yourself's Write a Novel is structured to start with idea finding and then to move on to plot development, ...

There is a growing market for erotic fiction, but erotic writing is not just about full-length fiction: much ...

This book will bring you up-to-date with the latest trends in blogging, social media, magazines, websites, travel ...

To write thrillers, you have to develop plot ideas in which your hero character needs to achieve something, but a ...

You are the author of your story, and you play the principal part. Once you understand this, you can begin to ...

Susan Palmquist is a very successful romantic novelist who also writes under the pen name Vanessa Devereaux.  ...

Writing for children is a big subject: it encompasses a range of genres and audience age-groups. This book covers ...

Donald Maass, a New York literary agent, made an important discovery: nearly all the books that stayed on the New ...

What are the four characteristics of good dialogue? According to novelist Irving Weinman, good dialogue: 1 Keeps ...