On Writing & Publishing, & Everything In-between

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  Sandra Gulland

  

  The Best Historical Fiction of 2025, recommended by Katharine Grant

  fivebooks.com - Cal Flyn, Deputy Editor

  Every year, the judges of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction highlight the very best new books published in that genre over the past …

• Classic Atwood wit and wisdom.

  

  Sandra Gulland

  

  Margaret Atwood's rules for writers

  The Guardian - Guardian staff reporter

  We asked some of the most esteemed contemporary authors for any golden rules they bring to their writing practice. Here are Margaret Atwood's

• Just ordered. Murakami is always enlightening.

  

  Sandra Gulland

  

  An Unnatural Spring: On Haruki Murakami’s “Novelist as a Vocation” | Los Angeles Review of Books

  lareviewofbooks.org - Robert Allen Papinchak is a former university English professor whose reviews, criticism, and interviews appear regularly in The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, On the Seawall, and World Literature Today, as well as in newspapers, literary journals, and online. Recently, he was named a finalist for the 2022 Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing by Washington Monthly for his essay/review of Ronald Brownstein’s Rock Me on The Water: 1974 — The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics, which appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books.

  An Unnatural Spring: On Haruki Murakami’s “Novelist as a Vocation” Robert Allen Papinchak reviews Haruki Murakami’s “Novelist as a Vocation,” …

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  Sandra Gulland

  

  Memoirs on Writing

  Medium - Michelle Richmond

  Lately, I’ve been drawn to personal narratives — particularly memoirs of the writing life. I keep coming back to books that are not about writing so …

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  Sandra Gulland

  

  23 lessons from The Beatles on the creative process

  wegrowmedia.com - Dan Blank

  This week I watched a 7+ hour documentary on The Beatles that was recently released, and kept finding little lessons for writers and artists on the …

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  Sandra Gulland

  

  How to write a synopsis for a novel

  nathanbransford.com - Nathan Bransford

  Of all the things you will write throughout the publishing process, a synopsis may be what you dread the most. It’s not fun to have to shoehorn an …