After all the hard work, a novel finally lands on bookshelves. A new story is born. But the gestation period, if you will, is often a mystifying process to readers. How does a book go from idea to ...

Editor’s Note: Previously, this series on scholarly publishing has offered advice on approaching an editor, getting a book contract, and responding to negative peer reviews. Promotion is a crucial ...

“A writer,” Saul Bellow once observed, “is a reader moved to emulation.” But what if it’s also the other way around? What if, when we think about writing, we are actually teaching ourselves how to ...

As the most popular word processing software on the planet, Google Docs even beats out the once-ubiquitous Microsoft Word in terms of its user base. That popularity is likely due to Docs' ...