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October is upon us, and that can mean only one thing: spooky novels! One of my favorite parts about this time of year is curling ...

TECTIV VOL. 1 by Richard Ashley Hamilton illustrated by Marco Matrone ...

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I have found over my fifteen years in the publishing industry that many people who write, whether they do it for a living or as a hobby, still hesitate to describe themselves as a writer. Some are ...

There are plenty of books filled with writing advice. You can follow the Save the Cat! rubric; you can adhere to Stephen King’s rigorous schedule; you can follow Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird approach.

Domestic thrillers have been a big part of the market for years, but there was definitely an explosion in the market after the success of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl. Made especially famous for its big ...

Dialogue is one of the hardest things to get right in fiction. If your characters are speaking to each other, what they’re saying is important to the plot, right? One of your characters has been ...

Editor-in-Chief Tom Beer dishes on the Kirkus Prize ahead of this year’s ceremony. We’re just one week away from the 11 th annual Kirkus Prize ceremony—live from New York City—and we couldn’t be more ...

Kirkus Media is looking for experienced book reviewers of English and Spanish-language titles to review for Kirkus Indie, the book review magazine's section dedicated to self-published authors.