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So you want to write a book? Brace yourself for some serious self-promotion and, yes, TikTok

So you want to write a book? Brace yourself for some serious self-promotion and, yes, TikTok

First published in the wine-and-dine era, Lauren Kessler now manages a blog, Instagram account, YouTube videos and more to help market her books
July 13, 2022
So you want to write a book? The risks and rewards of memoir

So you want to write a book? The risks and rewards of memoir

A learning-teaching journalist shares lessons learned as she revisited the realities of her mother's death and her own eating disorder
July 6, 2022
So you want to write a book? Part 2: Agents, queries and timelines

So you want to write a book? Part 2: Agents, queries and timelines

Newspaperman-turned-author Bryan Denson shares how he organizes his notes and timelines for books
February 23, 2022
So you want to write a book? Part 1: Have a strong story and resilient ego

So you want to write a book? Part 1: Have a strong story and resilient ego

Newspaper reporter Bryan Denson outlines how he went from rejection to multiple book contracts
February 22, 2022
So you want to write book? A long journey from newspaper reporter to book author

So you want to write book? A long journey from newspaper reporter to book author

In "The Diary of a Misfit," Casey Parks' had to let go of some journalistic boundaries to write about being queer in the religious, rural South
September 6, 2022
Tell us your favorite books on storytelling

Tell us your favorite books on storytelling

Plus: Robert Caro digs into his personal archives, and The Guardian's Jessica Reed shares what she's looking for in story pitches.
March 7, 2025
Minda Honey's lessons from writing a memoir, and advice for journalists finding their voice

Minda Honey’s lessons from writing a memoir, and advice for journalists finding their voice

The author of "The Heartbreak Years" embraced being "shameless" in telling her own story.
February 28, 2025
'Journalism is the privilege to learn as you go'

‘Journalism is the privilege to learn as you go’

Elon Green on Wright Thompson's "The Barn," how a New York magazine writer organizes his sources, and more.
February 21, 2025
Inside the acknowledgments: The making of Wright Thompson’s 'The Barn'

Inside the acknowledgments: The making of Wright Thompson’s ‘The Barn’

You can learn a lot from a work of nonfiction by seeing whom the author thanks.
February 20, 2025
The New Yorker at 100: What we can learn about editor-writer relationships

The New Yorker at 100: What we can learn about editor-writer relationships

Plus: National Magazine Award finalists, American Mosaic Journalism Prize, and more.
February 14, 2025