As individual as a fingerprint and more revealing than a pastoral confession handwriting is a window to the psyche that cannot be covered over. The author writes “…handwriting will tend to be more reliable revealing a person’s... Read More

By day poets masquerade as mere mortals: insurance clerks, teachers, librarians. But by night they prowl like panthers, seizing words on the run and crunching raw emotion. —Unattributed, The Times, 4 September 2006. Poetry: What is it?... Read More

It’s a truism that unsuccessful writers are more likely than successful ones to produce writer’s handbooks. Although failure may be more instructive than success, a high percentage of books such as these reside in the broader... Read More

Each year, 195,000 book titles make it into print. Authors are often disheartened when they discover the publicity machine they imagined, one that takes their title from obscurity to bestseller seemingly overnight, fails to materialize.... Read More

Some places have a life of their own, places that deeply touch people, becoming a piece of what defines them. For this author, San Francisco is such a place. His book is no travel guide, nor could it even be termed a travel book; it is a... Read More

Lusting after Manolo Blahniks is no longer a prerequisite for chick lit. While the days of fashionista heroines with artsy jobs and jerky ex-boyfriends aren’t necessarily over, the genre has begun to overlap into others, resulting in... Read More

For close to a decade now, Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye’s “Left Behind” series has stayed atop the bestseller lists. Just a couple of years ago now, Rick Warren’s The Purpose-Driven Life rocketed to mega-bestseller status and has... Read More

Many writing books help with the act of writing; this one helps with the art of it. Using her experience as a writer, editor, and teacher, the author has gone beyond the mere constructs of plot and characterization to ferret out the... Read More