"I had to go sit down," Sarah Brannen said about hearing justices debate the meaning of her book, "Uncle Bobby's Wedding," in ...

Being a storyteller is just fine with the journalist turned historian. “The Fate of the Day,” the second volume in his ...

I like to break my books up into the smallest possible units. “Writing Tools” set the standard: 50 chapters at about 1,000 words per chapter. (Total: 50,000-plus words.) Let’s do the math again: 200 ...