Kelly Thompson is a success story for authors out there looking for ways to get published without going down the regular path. Her new novel, Storykiller, is about a girl who learns that all the ...

Lots of people have, at one point or another, harbored dreams of writing the next great novel. But where to begin? Luckily, MashReads went to the best in the business to ask for tips. Cheryl Klein, ...

There is little more difficult than trying to engage a whole class of students in reading a novel that is a poor match for the group. There are things teachers can do to influence the experience in ...

Write the story that you most want to read. Which, yeah, for the majority of us means a story about a giraffe and a fireman who are best friends, and the fireman hangs out in a tree so that he can be ...

Writing about writing is riddled with pitfalls. Writing is a specific and individual task: No two pieces can sound the same without one or both being diminished, and no two personalities approach the ...

Reading can be an escape for many people, but sometimes finding the time to finish a book can be difficult. Whether your roadblock is choosing a book, finding time to read, or not having space to ...

Books take over downtown Portland this November as the 11th annual Portland Book Festival, organized by Literary Arts, returns Saturday, Nov. 8. The festival brings together hundreds of authors, poets ...