Joseph Dougherty, whose script credits include his Emmy-winning work on the sitcom thirtysomething, as well as Pretty Little Liars, shares his personal writing philosophies and best practices in A Screenwriter’s Companion. The book... Read More

"Write a Must-Read" is a direct, substantive guide for aspiring authors who want to craft audience-centered nonfiction books. AJ Harper, a ghost writer and a writing coach, provides would-be writers with the scaffolding and coaching... Read More

This unconventional alphabet book teaches children their ABCs alongside respect for language diversity. Here, f is for butterfly—flutur in Albanian—and octopus starts with a t—tako, from Japanese. Sixty-nine languages are... Read More

A psycholinguist and a Czech immigrant to Canada, Julie Sedivy lost her first language, so much so that her “Czech heritage began to feel more and more like a vestigial organ.” She is not alone in this experience: Generation 1.5... Read More

"Negotiating Lingua Francas" is a fascinating look at the diversity to be found within and among languages. In her language arts study "Negotiating Lingua Francas", Shahinaz Bukhari examines the dynamism, fluidity, and purposes of... Read More

"Writing with Your Ever-Present Muse" is a self-help workbook designed to guide writers to a place of deeper authenticity, power, and confidence. Writers seeking inspiration will appreciate the playful and engaging creative exercises... Read More

A veritable language factory, New York City may very well deserve its preferred moniker of being the greatest city in the world, at least when it comes to its influence on the way that English is spoken. The telling fact is that New... Read More

In an ideal world, we would be no shorter or taller than we need to be, no thinner or heavier, smarter or dimmer. We would be what we needed to be. Similarly, writing need not be short or long to be what it needs to be. When the work is... Read More