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Be for real

Facebook may be waning with the kids but not with writers.

By Alicia Anstead, Writer Editor-in-Chief | Published: June 5, 2013

Soapbox on wheels

Do a writer’s words take on new meaning when spoken?

By Aubrey Everett, Writer Managing Editor | Published: June 5, 2013

The Book of Amish

Novelist Amish Tripathi meant to spend his career as a mathematician. But the numbers added up to a writer’s life.

By Mridu Khullar Relph | Published: June 3, 2013

Let words collide

Short-form writing can lead to a subatomic investigation of language, also known as revealing the POWER of two.

By Roy Peter Clark | Published: June 3, 2013

Going transmedia

Hollywood, film and TV, oh my!

The Motion Picture Association of America reports that the global box office tally for all films released around the world in 2012 was $34.7 billion (yes, that’s billion) – and it may be that the time has never been riper for book authors to score some of that film-options bounty.

By Cathie Beck | Published: June 3, 2013

We’re entering the time of year

We’re entering the time of year many of us think of as vacation time. Or as I like to call it: reading season. For readers of this magazine, it’s also a time when we might steal extra time writing – when the kids are at the beach, when the family has gone off for a …

By Alicia Anstead | Published: June 2, 2013

How I Write: Karen Thompson Walker

In 2004, Karen Thompson Walker read that the big earthquake in Indonesia shortened the earth’s rotation by a few microseconds. This news story inspired what became The Age of Miracles, her bestselling first novel, although with one major difference: Julia, an 11-year-old girl, and her parents face the effect of the earth’s slowing rotation and the …

By Sarah C. Lange | Published: May 22, 2013