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Astudy entitled 'Short- and Long-Term Effects of a Novel on Connectivity in the Brain' was published late last year in the journal Brain Connectivity, and it received quite a bit [...]

First the book, then the long-running and hugely successful play, now the Steven Spielberg film of War Horse, due to be released in the UK just after Christmas (http://www.warhorsemovie.co.uk/) and [...]

According to the famous lines from St. Paul, 'Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.' Similarly, though less poetically, my American Heritage Dictionary [...]

Dominican-American writers have not been as prominent as many other U.S. Hispanic writers, but in recent years several have published novels representing both a New York urban existence and the [...]

'I read for pleasure ... books where the style is as important as the story,' says French auteur Patrice Leconte ('Intimate Strangers').'I like it when people know how to write, [...]

As a judge of this year's Orange prize, I'd like to thank Britain's publishers for the brilliant novels by women they've published this year. I've read a lot of them, [...]

The experience of writing novels is discussed and suggested that each one should write a novel with a plot, create characters, give those characters challenges and invent believable patterns. Some direct marketing campaigns with the help of a few examples are described.

The late Patrick O'Brian, author of the Aubrey/Maturin novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic wars, became distinctly peppery if anyone suggested he was a historical novelist. It [...]

American crime writer Linda Fairstein had a high-profile public career long before she picked up her pen: as an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan, she headed the district's sex crimes [...]