Having just finished a new book on body language, brain science, and how people communicate, due out in May 2014 from Harvard, I’m going to post a brief series on writing – what I’ve learned ...

Want to Write a Book This Year? These Tools Can Help We spoke to two award-winning authors for their tips on how to make it from start to finish.

By the time I signed my contract for my first book, I had four rejected book proposals. My decade-plus of false starts put me face-to-face with a harsh reality: getting a book sold, writing a book ...

In a column last February, I described the six main elements of a book proposal: overview, competition, market, author description, table of contents, and sample chapter. But I focused on one of ...

Writing the first book is time-consuming. So, you may wonder, why should people still write one—especially if a book is not required for tenure at their institution? Many people may advise you to just ...