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Designing a Fulfilling Next Chapter: An Elite Author Interview with Jackie P. Lyons
You climbed your mountain and achieved success, yet feel restless. What now? Jackie P. Lyons is a former CFO, board advisor, and a pioneer across finance, technology, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence, with a career defined by firsts. She was among the first...
Psychological Romance: 10 Best Books & How to Write One
TL;DR: Psychological romance is a hybrid genre where the love story and the suspense plot are the same plot. The danger comes from inside the relationship rather than outside it. Think Gone Girl, You, and Verity. To write one, make the romance itself the thing the...
How to Write a History Book: A 9-Step Guide for 2026
TL;DR To write a history book, narrow your topic to a single question, build a stack of primary and secondary sources, log every citation as you go, choose a chronological or thematic structure, and write toward an argument instead of a timeline. You don’t need...
Squibler Review: Honest Pricing, Real Features & Red Flags to Check First
TL;DR: Squibler is an AI writing platform that generates outlines, chapters, and full manuscripts from a short prompt. It’s free to try and paid plans run $16–$49/month billed annually. It drafts fast, but it holds a 2.3/5 Trustpilot rating, offers only a 7-day...
41 Proofreader Marks: Every Editing Symbol Explained
TL;DR Proofreader marks are standardized symbols editors write on printed manuscripts to show what needs to change. There are 41 in common use under the Chicago Manual of Style, split across deletion, spacing, paragraphing, position, type style, and punctuation. Most...
Gothic Writing: Style, Examples, and How to Write It
TL;DR: Gothic writing is a style of fiction built on dark atmosphere, decaying settings, isolation, and heightened emotion, usually with a supernatural thread and a buried secret. It started in 1764 with The Castle of Otranto and runs straight through to today’s...
How to Write Observational Humor: Examples, Techniques & a 5-step Framework
TL;DR Observational humor turns ordinary, everyday moments into laugh-out-loud writing by noticing details other people overlook. To write it, sharpen your attention to daily life, keep your examples relatable, exaggerate for comedic effect, time your delivery, and...
How to Publish a Children’s Book: 12 Simple Steps
TL;DR: To publish a children’s book, pick your age group, write and edit the story, hire an illustrator, format it to print specs, get an ISBN, and upload it to Amazon KDP for paperback and ebook, plus IngramSpark for hardcover and bookstores. Budget $3,000 to...