If you are in the process of writing a novel and you prefer using Google Docs, here is how to format your manuscript to look more like a book.

The market section of the book proposal matters because it helps to answer the “why me” question — or, why should an editor give you thousands of dollars to write this book (trade contracts ...

You can also write in increments if you are documenting a long piece like a workbook, manual, handbook, curriculum, e-book or memoir. Split up your content into daily or weekly achievable increments.

Our primary concern here is not with essay collections, however, but with co-authored books, which remain rare. The experience of writing Women, Literature, and the Domesticated Landscape: England ...

Just in time for next month's Festival of Faith & Writing at Calvin comes a book that features some of the best of past Festivals.Shouts and Whispers: Twenty-One Writers Speak About Their Writing and ...

This book has already struck readers —s it made it on the fiction longlist for the 2014 National Book Award. Mandel's opening line is a gorgeous illustration of what 10 perfectly chosen words ...

Five travel guide authors offer a behind-the-postcard look at their job. Carolyn McCarthy, author of more than 40 Lonely Planet guidebooks What can a guidebook offer that a web search can’t? The ...

Taylor Byas: So, 'Dear Moon,’ the very last poem of the book, which is also the last poem that I wrote for the book. It's my favorite poem because I think it was an epiphany poem. Even as I was, you ...