What if writing a book no longer required months of painstaking effort, late nights, and endless rewrites? Imagine crafting an entire manuscript—complete with polished prose, cohesive structure, and ...

Filmmaker and author of “THE SPOILS,” Colin Thompson, breaks down the hard work that follows the hard work of writing your first book. We asked Thompson to share his journey as a writer, and the ...

These days, it seems like everyone has published a book. That can lead us to feel like we should publish, too. But before you rush to the presses, ask yourself these four important questions. A guide ...

In November 2024, I found myself on the receiving end of a companywide downsizing, or layoffs. The news hit hard at first. Those 15 minutes between getting the message (you know, the ominous one, "Can ...

Readers of Lucy Score’s new romance novel, “Mistakes Were Made,” will marvel at the cover and sprayed edges. They'll anticipate the love story that awaits them on the pages. But all the excitement in ...

Writing this sentence was hard. There were so many other things I could have gone with. That set of words seemed right at the time, roughly 90 seconds ago. Now I’m not so sure. Joan Didion once said ...

CBC Books asked students across Canada to write the first page of a novel set 150 years in the future, imagining how a ...