Why does a single novel sometimes move us more than a decade of headlines? Naira Khan has an answer, and she built a career in psychology and advocacy before she put it into fiction. Her essay makes the case for storytelling as something more than entertainment.
Luigi Kohli spent more than a year stuck on whether to turn his debut novel Aletheia into an audiobook, and the math never gave him an answer. What finally did was a very different question about what an audiobook should actually do. He walks through the real costs, the choice to hire a professional narrator…
Kathy Arnos has spent four decades learning that writing rarely ends with the book itself. What began as something deeply personal became a launch pad for newsletters, expos, radio shows, and an award-winning book on living and dying, each project pointing her toward a bigger purpose. If you’ve ever wondered where your own writing might take you, her story is worth the read.
Between raising two kids, working in healthcare, and training for an ultramarathon, Lesley Prosko doesn’t have endless hours to feed the social media algorithm, and neither do most authors. In this piece, she makes a refreshingly guilt-free case for letting AI handle the grind while you save your creative energy for what actually matters.
Setting isn’t scenery. J.H. Mann makes the case that a rising tide or a looming house can do the work of an antagonist, with craft advice drawn from du Maurier’s Manderley and Cornwall’s Atlantic coast.
Who actually created the book? Bellec works through ownership, training data, disclosure, job loss, and the environmental questions, and lands on an answer that stays honest about its own uncertainty.
Why a decade of beta reads and failed drafts, not raw intelligence, is what made AI useful to award-winning author B.A. Bellec.
The three-document system B.A. Bellec used to brainstorm and draft his novel to 40,000 words with AI as a working partner.
Where AI fails a novelist. B.A. Bellec on the failure state he hit and how he took back control of his fourth novel.
B.A. Bellec asks AI for 100 questions, keeps half, and adds 10,000 words: how he treats the machine like a second alpha reader.