Category: Pros on Prose

Skilled writers don’t just write what people say. They have to make up for hand and face gestures, repeated phrases and more through careful crafting of words.

Book coaches help fiction and nonfiction writers structure their book, define their point, get the words out of their head and onto the page, revise and polish...

Jordan Michael Smith is a former speechwriter for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Comptroller Scott Stringer. He is the author of a bestselling Kindle...

From memoirs and tell-alls to cookbooks and speeches, books written by ghostwriters are more common you might expect. So, how many of these that you’ve read or...

Listen more carefully. Choose battles more wisely. Avoid insulting people accidentally. Think more generously. Argue more productively. Repair relationships worth repairing (and stop trying to fix the...

If you are ever tasked with creating an in-house editorial and/or writing style guide for your business, and your numbers are legion, please heed my advice: 1....

Here is Bronwyn Fryer's advice to you ghostwriters: When you talk with authors, make them tell you the level of commitment they have to the book on...

The latest episode of the podcast “Sincerely, X” addressed the practice of ghostwriting for wedding speeches, eulogies, work emails and other personal occasions.

What if women writers building their platform was an altruistic act, rather than a dreaded exercise in shallow self-aggrandizement?

8 tips for succeeding as an Indie author from Penny Reid, a former biomedical researcher who writes “smart romances.”