If you don't have money like James Patterson, you can still support indie bookstores. Do it. A city without a bookstore is a sad place.

The French Resistance was organized by Virginia Hall, a spy - and amputee-- who provided valuable intelligence during WWII.

We never have enough reading time, so you have to choose your books wisely. Here are guaranteed good reads from the Monday Night Book Club.

Writers experience time differently than others. Here's how to make the most of the 5 time zones of productive writers.

Ern Malley's poetry was an elaborate hoax, but because of an editor's backing. Malley's work gained acclaim.

Copywriters are instructed to write at the sixth grade level. Short, simple, and - well - dumber. Even fiction is simpler than before.

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Richard Drew's compassionate problem-solving was at the crux of innovation, not the amount of time he spent working on it.

The semicolon doesn't work for copywriting, but it's a light-saber for word-warriors in essays, articles, and story-telling.

Rising to a challenge, stimulates ideas, strengthens creative muscle, and gives you repeatable, significant results.

Alex Michaelides relies on the long-standing tradition of female insanity in fiction in his suspense novel, The Silent Patient.

The bikini has been popular for 74 years, due to 4 brilliant marketing strategies. You can use these to make your product an iconic success.

Reading my parents’ love letters gave insight into who our parents were before us, an intimate glimpse at the start of a 62-year marriage.

Marginalia is the practice of writing in your books, sometimes called literary vandalism. But if the great authors could do it, so could I.

A Q-Factor is the quality of your idea plus your ability to carry the idea through. A high Q-Factor plus persistence equals success.

I didn't appreciate my freedom until I traveled to China and heard stories of Tiananmen Square. Now I sing the national anthem proudly.

Reading Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad was a different experience now than it would have been before George Floyd's death.