Writers know we can be scatterbrained when it comes to keeping all the moving parts of a story together. Who's doing what when, am I...

Happy Saturday, witches! I'm coming at you a wee late this week because I've been busier than anticipated. And also because I went...

Introverts are an elusive bunch, sometimes even to other introverts. They're especially challenging characters for writers, because their...

Once upon a time, there lived a girl named Cinderella. But Cinderella is dead, and in her former kingdom live two queer black girls who...

What is it about antiheroes that sucks us in and makes us fiercely loyal to our fictional baddies? They are often self-focused and only...

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH! As the world slowly progresses, we're seeing more representation of communities that have been historically...

Authors like Stephen King and Anne Rice have built their careers around horror so much that their names have become synonymous with the...

Magic comes in all shapes and sizes, from the mundane to the fantastical. Sometimes it's taking something magical and using it in a...

There's no end to book tropes one can expect to come across in fiction: epic fantasies that take place during a war, dystopian...

'D' is for "diversity," something we are seeing more of in YA literature. In honor of World Day of Cultural Diversity, let's take a look...