As a writer, it’s common for you to imagine your stories, to see in your mind’s eye how each scene plays out -- the appearance of your protagonists and antagonists, the setting in which the story takes place, and the motivations of each character. But sometimes,...
Many readers, myself included, like to annotate books as they read, and they usually do this in the book’s margins. Some nonfiction authors, however, use sidebars to make their own annotations; they provide additional context, anecdotes, or graphics to enhance the...
If you’re a book lover who uses TikTok, you might’ve heard about BookTok, a sprawling online community of published authors, aspiring writers, and avid readers across all genres. On TikTok, readers use the hashtag, #BookTok to discuss their favorite authors and book...
I, like many others, developed my love for reading as a child. Although the general sentiment is to not judge a book by its cover, children's book covers gave my mother and me a glimpse into the new worlds we’d both be thrust into the minute we open the first page....
When I was 17 years old, I wrote my first novel—a police procedural that was 67,000 words long. At the time, I didn’t know much about publishing a book, but I did know that the logical next step was to turn what I’d written into book format. After much research,...