When most people talk about a book changing their life, they’re talking about a book they read — a book that changed their perspective or way of thinking. But for many authors, writing a book can be ...

For Elizabeth McCracken, writing a novel requires attention to matters as small as punctuation and as capacious as the imagined world her characters inhabit.

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Over the years, I’ve published a couple of series supporting teachers who were interested in writing education books. I’ve written or edited 13 education-related books. Now that I’ve retired, I’m ...