If we make our characters' lives too easy the story is dull. Here's how to create tension using conflict and make our stories hard to set down.

Oversimplified characters are hard to love. Ellen Buikema shares four elements to make characters dynamic and worthy of your readers' interest.

As authors, we educate, and entertain. Author visits are very rewarding. Ellen Buikema shares how to book author visits and what to do once you're there.

We can develop connections between young booklovers and writers in their own communities via school and public libraries. Here's how.

Whether you see this as resistance or low sense of self, writing anxiety can prevent you from finishing that wonderful story that only you can tell best.