Jen Lancaster's If You Were Here tells the story of two new homeowners with a “fixer upper” on their hands and the adventures encountered through its renovation. Lancaster just kicked off her book tour, and she’ll be in reading in Chicago this weekend. She kindly answered our questions and spoke about her transition from personal writing to fiction, being funny, and what she learned from being an unemployed author. more ›

Before Wendy McClure got sucked into rereading the Little House on the Prairie series, she was doing a lot of different writerly things. The Oak Park born-and-raised writer is a children's book editor and, in 2005, published a memoir about her experiences with Weight Watchers, I'm Not the New Me. Recently she published The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie, about her journey in the footsteps of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her family. Recently we had a chance to chat with her about how she came to write the The Wilder Life. more ›

Being a full-time writer is hard work. Being a full-time lawyer is hard work. Being a full-time writer, a full-time lawyer and full-time parent is super duper triple hard work. But, David Ellis does it. more ›

If you like television celebrities, nonfiction authors, mathematics, illegal drug consumption, or any combination of the above: tonight is your night! more ›