Broken Pencil magazine is once again inviting writers to "sharpen those quills" and enter a deathmatch -- of fiction. In the magazine's second annual Indie Writers Deathmatch, editors will choose the top eight stories from ... Read More »

Alec Greven, the nine-year-old Colorado author of How to Talk to Girls, is now a bona fide media star, thanks to an appearance on the Ellen show and our culture's seemingly insatiable desire for a ... Read More »

It being that time of year, when sleighbells can be heard gently tinkling and readers are inundated with a glut of year-end best-of lists so that they can feel bad about how much they haven't ... Read More »

Serialized novels are a rarity these days, but The Guardian books blogger David Barnett argues that they are making a comeback. The Daily Mail has often run seasonal crime stories penned by the likes of ... Read More »