Every writer should read books on writing craft to become a better writer. Reading widely across the genres is recommended, but books on writing craft are specifically geared to guide you through your process with insights and tool and will help you evolve, deepen your practice, and grow.
There are innumerable benefits to bringing in an author to boost your book club. For regular book-lovers, the exposure and intimacy to the author of a book is far more enriching than simply reading the book. If you’re a writer in a book club, you get to reap that many more benefits as you also enjoy the personal contact and dose of inspiration and motivation for your own work. For authors, the benefits are also huge in terms of book sales, nurturing a relationship with your readers, and enjoying a long future of increased engagement and sharing of your titles. Read on to see how everyone gains so much from a single author visit to book club!
Never one to shy away from reading, when avid reader Janet Hoy encountered a 50 books in 12 Months reading challenge, she leapt to it, exceeded it, and learned more about herself from her year in competitive reading than she ever could have thought.
We writers need books to make us happier, more contented, and better people. See what books the One Lit Place writers are reading these days and why we need them.
The long tradition of women gathering to discuss books — as writers and readers— has saved the novel, making it one of our top art forms, for which the women of the hundreds of thousands of book clubs worldwide are very grateful.
To write about our grandparents is an honor and an opportunity. To spend time appreciating our grandparents and their role in our lives, is to recognize the beauty in human experience. Taking the time to solidify the character, love, and years our grandparents spent on earth, influencing and affecting others, is to permanently etch our awareness of how they paved the way, toiled, and loved to give rise to the next generations.
Writer and sailor Brian Liddy takes us on a journey through his life and books and they serendipitously led him to where he is today.
Our 4-month Mentored Book Programs, Online Courses, & Writing Coaching and Editing Hours. From November 21-27, 2023