Choosing Your Topic

Women’s fiction is geared towards, you guessed it: women. That it’s read mostly by women isn’t exactly rocket science, right? A lot of this fiction is also popular with...

Historical fiction novels are embedded in the past. The genre takes a fictional story and sets it in a true historical setting. The amount of blending, or real history...

The western genre is a dying breed. Perhaps that statement is a little overdramatic, but it would be hard to argue that the western novel has a popular place in American...

The fantasy genre is fantastical, includes unrealistic places, and has intricate and involved plots. Beyond the setting, however, fantasy fiction takes on many of the...

Are any story ideas really completely new? The short answer is yes and no. Stories spring out of the human experience. They evolve over time. In evolution, each new...