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Honesty, friction and realism define books that respect how difficult change really feels, without selling shortcuts or ...

It takes audacity to write a self-help book. What you’re proclaiming, page after page, is not only that you have a better take on what’s plaguing the human condition than everyone else, but also that ...

The philosopher Jordan Peterson says, "The best way to teach people critical thinking is to teach them to write... Because there is no difference between that and thinking... You need to learn to ...

As an editor of self-help books for more than 13 years, I’ve had many conversations with people who want to write books—often psychology professionals, but just as often, folks who feel their ...

In a 1954 New Yorker essay “Howtoism,” writer and critic Dwight Macdonald states that authors of how-to books are to other authors as frogs are to mammals, and encourages people to read other genres.

Getting words onto a page can be a painful process. Authors of all abilities, help is within reach! By Judith Newman “Writing is easy,” the sportswriter Red Smith famously said. “I just open a vein ...