Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol sold 2 million copies in its first week. That wasn't an accident. The Globe and Mail has written a great piece on just some of the extraordinary marketing that has gone into promoting Brown's latest novel. You can read it...

Almost all bestselling authors' websites add something special to readers' experiences. Some have free content, all have snazzy photos, and die-hard fans can find out when the author will next be out in the public. If you study the websites below, you...

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Straight from the Experts: Literary agent Sally Hill McMillan and Algonquin Books Executive Editor Chuck Adams discuss what they do and how they do it. If you want to be successfully published, you need to know as much as you can about how the...

(A visual clue from my novel-in-progress.) I wrote 3/4th of my current novel and got stuck, so I sat down and wrote the entire story as a screenplay. Hooray! Now I have a working plot with a story arch that makes a lot more sense. The next thing to...