Writing and book holidays observed in September, as autumn arrives. Every literary celebration, author day, and reading observance falling in September, each marked with an essay.
SeptemberNational Comic Book Day celebrates the medium that taught a lot of us to love stories. I owned early Iron Man and Spider-Man issues, lost them all, and once trashed boxes of comics, and learned from all of it.
SeptemberAgatha Christie became the best-selling novelist in history, behind only the Bible and Shakespeare. She created Poirot and Miss Marple, and her mastery of plot is on my mind as I'm about to write mysteries of my own.
SeptemberNational Punctuation Day fights sloppy punctuation, and the marks are having a strange moment. A case for learning the rules cold before AI quietly forgets them for you, and why they still matter.
SeptemberH.G. Wells founded the opposite half of science fiction from Verne. Where Verne loved the machine, Wells used the impossible to hold a mirror to humanity. A look at the divide that still runs through the genre.
SeptemberLabor Day is the first Monday in September. An honest take on the holiday and the writing angle in it: writing is real labor, most of it invisible.
SeptemberHobbit Day is September 22. What Tolkien's hobbits teach about character and worldbuilding, an honest take from a writer who never read The Hobbit.
Reading LifeSeptember is National Library Card Signup Month. Why every writer needs a library card and how libraries shaped one author's career.
SeptemberA personal remembrance of September 11, 2001, the day that changed everything, and why the stories from that day must continue to be told.
DialogueSeptember 6 is National Read a Book Day. A 113-book author on why reading is the single most important thing a writer does besides writing.
Pop Culture & Storytelling LessonsA lifelong Star Trek fan with over 200 hardcover Trek novels on what the original series got right about storytelling that most of its successors missed.
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