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Feeling Creatively Blocked? Change Your Clothes—Or at Least Shed Your Bra

I just finished reading The Glass Wives, Amy Sue Nathan's moving and surprisingly funny new novel about a woman who ends up living with her

It's easy to feel insignificant. That's what I was thinking when I was asked by a local library to speak with authors Myfanwy Collins and

One of the best ways to elevate a book—no matter what the genre—from merely good to truly great is to sniff out stale images and

My first day at the AWP Conference in Boston, I stood for several minutes at the bottom of the escalator, paralyzed by the sight of so

Seeing your book cover for the first time is like waiting for that guy from Match.com to show up at the restaurant. You've laid out your expectations

There is a little bit of Scrooge in all writers. In the frenzied days leading up to Thanksgiving (which of course are only a prelude to even

I was breakfasting on scrambled eggs this morning while reading about children who were murdered in their sleep. “Good book, honey?” my husband

When I received my latest issue of Poets and Writers Magazine, I did what I always do: I put it in a special place on the nightstand, where I could

No matter how long you've been writing, you've probably experienced that panic-induced paralysis known as writer's block. Common causes are a recent