Fictional Characters Are Not Your Friends
Critics who fault a character’s unlikability cannot necessarily be faulted. They are merely expressing a wider cultural malaise with all things unpleasant, all things that dare to breach the norm…
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#candylit Sweetens the Twittersphere
This past weekend, an event of historical import occurred: the #candylit hashtag on Twitter. Started by Lincoln Michel with a “Fall of the House of Gushers” pun, it combined book titles…
A Helpful Guide to Writing Children’s Books
If it’s always been your secret ambition to write a children’s picture book, Buzzfeed Books can help you get started with this handy-dandy thirteen-step guide, illustrated by the Rumpus’s own Jason Novak (with a…
Writing Your First Book
When I started writing a novel I thought, I’m not ready, because I’ve only written short stories and nobody wants them, but I also thought, For Christ’s sake, what am…
A Love Song for Isaac Fitzgerald
Our dear friend and co-owner Isaac Fitzgerald is moving to New York for his spiffy new job as Buzzfeed Books editor. Dan Weiss (of Morning Coffee fame) and his band…