Dystopia may be an overdone genre, but no one does it quite like Divergent’s Veronica Roth. A native of Illinois, Roth grew up loving books. One of her favorites was the Lois Lowry classic, The Giver, which, incidentally, has been called the original dystopian young adult novel. Roth studied ...

“Elementary, my dear Watson.” (Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle) No other line in literature seems to be just as iconic as the one above. And no other author has ever created a detective as iconic as Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle was the second of seven c...

Sheila Renee Parker, author of the paranormal romance The Spirit Within, tells us all about her writing, her love for the art, and her curiosity for the paranormal. Parker, who also runs a blog and is an internationally-acclaimed poet, shares that she started writing at a very early age. “It ...