DW BrownPoppy and Granddad’s Sunday tradition involves whipping up recipes from scratch. Not only does Granddad cook, he also collects memories and recipes from the whole family, which he documents in a scrapbook. Poppy loves hearing his stories about the rest of the family—and is especially excited to try making Great-Great-Granddad’s famous sweet potato pie. So …
After finding a love that was more than she’d ever hoped for, Claire Sutherland finds herself alone again. A boating accident left her a deeply traumatized orphan. A mysterious neurological ailment took her fiancé. When Elias’ mother invites her to their home for a memorial service, Claire hesitates at first. She’s never met any of …
British academic/researcher Challenger (How To Be Animal, 2017) takes off from, and frequently returns to, Aristotle’s thinking in this wide-ranging, sometimes confounding meditation on theories of what distinguishes life from non-life. For Aristotle, and for Challenger, life resides in the individual organism—whether plant, animal, or other—navigating in a world of other organisms as well as …
Introducing the main characters of “The Axe,” the narrator—omniscient, omnipotent, and jaded—suddenly pauses: “But none of that matters, because these aren’t real people, and it’s hard enough to hold onto your own memories without holding onto theirs.” Some of Row’s characters are aware that they’re characters; some of his narrators struggle against the constraints of …
Despite her brief moment of internet fame after catching a killer at a crime writing festival in A Novel Murder (2025), Jane is without an agent or publisher, and suffering from writer’s block. Still, she has journeyed from Cumbria to London’s Willow Tree Books to celebrate the publication of a debut thriller by her new …
In the near future, nearly everyone in the world is equipped with an Ego: “a neural augmentation device” that can tap into people’s senses and perceptions, developed by the Arc Corporation and mainly used for high-tech virtual-reality games. Arc has extensive contracts with the military and government and seems to be untouchable, until a series …
By S. Durrant Comparing the best novel to screenplay converter tools in 2026 — FluidScriptr, LivingWriter, AI chatbots, and traditional screenwriting software. Which fits your manuscript and budget? If you’ve finished a novel and want to see it as a screenplay, you have more options in 2026 than ever before — and they range from …
Learn how to adapt a novel into a screenplay step by step — structure, format, what to cut, and the tools that make adaptation faster. A practical guide for authors. DW Brown You’ve written a novel. Somewhere in the back of your mind, you’ve pictured it on screen — the opening shot, the casting, the …
Some grammar errors are about sentence structure. These aren’t — they’re about word choice, and they’re some of the most frequent corrections in any copy edit, showing up even in manuscripts that are otherwise clean and polished. Here’s the list worth knowing cold. Lay vs. Lie This is the single most commonly confused pair in …
Tense inconsistency is one of the hardest errors for authors to catch in their own work, because it usually happens in small, localized slips rather than as a wholesale confusion about past versus present tense. A writer who chose past tense on page one and knows the whole book is in past tense can still …
