New scholarship points to a paradox of historic scope: Our writing system was devised by people who couldn’t read

Authors of books tied to big film franchises such as Star Wars stopped receiving checks after Disney acquired Lucasfilm and Twentieth Century Fox.

Santabodies! How can Santa deliver presents safely this year? A short story full of hope for Christmas 2020.

Another client of THGM Writing Services strikes gold. C.D. Peterson's WWII-era screenplay The Last Ones wins "Best Drama Screenplay" at the Los Angeles Film Awards (LAFA).It's always exciting wh

Ever wanted to know what it's like to write a technical book? This post details my experience co-authoring an O'Reilly book with my colleagues Lak and Mike. Our book, Machine Learning Design Patterns, is available to order now and all royalties go to Girls Who Code.

Simone B and the Magical Mirror by Dr. Denita S. Bottoms is a motivational self-help book for primary school-age girls.

Fountain pens were a stylish statement but messy and impractical. Their replacement was a stroke of design genius perfectly in time for the era of mass production.

Entrepreneurs are building tools that create emails or marketing copy using GPT-3, text-generation technology released earlier this year.

Pre-Invasion, message sticks were sent between distant communities to maintain diplomatic relations. They demanded acknowledgement and mutual respect.

Fantasy author Terry Goodkind, who created the decades-long series The Sword of Truth, has died at 72 years old. He leaves behind an important but complicated legacy, as his personal views and attitude tended to collide with his work.

Sarah Jeong talks to Newton about the details of his deal, subscription journalism, and what makes email such a good media format

We asked GPT-3, OpenAI’s powerful new language generator, to write an essay for us from scratch. The assignment? To convince us robots come in peace

A man who had written for a site that officials say was a front for a Russian group said his mysterious editor “had a different kind of agenda.”

Joanne Harris has revealed that she was paid only £5,000 for the film rights to Chocolat. So why do some authors get the big bucks and some have to settle for the crumbs?

What is revealed by the early manuscripts of classic novels? From the works of Wilde and Woolf to Fitzgerald and Proust, Hephzibah Anderson investigates.

Emma Copley Eisenberg discusses the dangers of authors being forced to hire their own fact-checker out of pocket. If they do so at all.

In 2017, the Times dissolved its copy desk, possibly permitting more typos to slip through. Meet the anonymous lawyer who’s correcting the paper of record one untactful tweet at a time.

From Francis Spufford to Sarah Waters, contemporary writers have brought new complexity and playfulness to historical fiction

Experts find hundreds of errors in the writer’s works, mostly made by editors and typesetters

For Woolf, correspondence became a way to transcend a climate of illness—to envision a future she couldn’t see.