Reader Friday: Under Appreciated Books?

Recently, Publishers Weekly put put out a list of books you read in high school that you should read again . One of them was The Great Gats...

Writer's Block Rx

by Michelle Gagnon Recently, since NPR seems to be running an interminable series on African leaf cutter ants, I've devoted much of my c...

An Excess of Books

Nancy J. Cohen What do you do when you have too many books in your house, and you can’t possibly read them all? Give away the print books an...

Is social media developing a personality disorder?

By Kathryn Lilley Like most people, I spend a lot of time online. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn--you name an Internet watering hole, and it...

Embracing the Risk Inherent

--> by Boyd Morrison When I was in the sixth grade, I desperately wanted the role of the lisping Winthrop in my school’s producti...

Lessons My Father and Mother Taught Me

James Scott Bell @jamesscottbell I was blessed with good parents. They were of the "Greatest Generation," decent and d...

Why We Write

by Mark Alpert One thing’s for sure: We don’t do it for the money. Yes, it’s possible to make a living from writing fiction, but on aver...

Reader Friday: Who Was That Masked Man?

Who is your favorite hero? Who would you most like to see pop into action when the chips are down?

What My Cat Has Taught Me About Writing

By Jordan Dane @JordanDane I'm convinced cats are noble beings reincarnated into a beautiful and graceful creature with four legs and pl...

We have liftoff!

By Joe Moore Today is launch day for my new thriller, THE BLADE (co-written with Lynn Sholes). This is our first venture into indie publi...

How to make it to the Big Show

"Do you know what the difference between hitting .250 and .300 is? That's 25 hits...25 hits in 500 at bats is 50 points...okay? Th...

Digging up the Past

by Clare Langley-Hawthorne Being a wee bit of a history nerd, I greeted the news confirming that Richard III's bones had been dug up in ...

Write Your Truth

James Scott Bell @jamesscottbell On a cool April night in 1950, a young actor got the chance to do a scene in the Actors Studio, in fro...

You Can Observe a Lot, Just by Listening

I have adapted ---some might say maladapted --- Yogi Berra’s famous observation for my own purpose today, occasioned by a pair of incidents ...

Reader Friday: Q & A

Today's topic -- a Q & A -- comes to us from a suggestion by our friend Diane Krause.  Let us know in the comments whether you have ...

How a great story can change the world

by Matt Richtel TKZ is once again delighted to host Pulitzer prize-winning author Matt Richtel. His latest release, THE CLOUD, just hit bo...