Bottom line is there are two types of writers: those who believe in writer’s block and those who don’t. Neither will deny the magic and energy that possesses an author when inspiration rears its mysterious head, but where their approach to writing differs is how the time is spent between those moments of inspiration.

Environmentally friendly and guilt free, book swapping sites are hugely popular. Aside from the obvious benefits for the trees, book swapping introduces readers to authors they normally wouldn’t have chanced. Not actually purchasing the book apparently lends freedom to the process of choosing the next read. But some authors, such as Jeanette Winterson, are not so keen on the idea.

We're not saying sex is something to be ashamed of, and far be it from us to declare any activity between consenting adults to be unnatural. It's just that some types of sex are weird and even terrifying to us.

But, if you're going to do something that would make a dominatrix flinch, you might as well do it right. Thus we offer these sex guides that you'll either find helpful or nightmarish.

In a very competitive culture that emphasizes newness and fashion, and promotes the reading of a current blockbuster which is forgotten in a moment's time, the backlist is a vanishing phenomenon. The volume of sales of one-year-old or older books is shrinking, while newer books capture an increasing share of the market.

Meaning some good books drop rapidly from cultural memory. What to do?

Popular opinion dictates that book blurbs are sneaky things—that they’re all about who you know rather than how good your book actually is. Here, some of the blurbers and blurbees let us in on how the book blurb really works…or doesn’t.

Are you a pessimist or an optimist, a realist or a pragmatist? Out there somewhere is a futuristic world waiting for you. These are broad generalizations and not full plot synopses– just something to give you an idea of where you stand.

They read to know their suspects, they read to know how to manage their squads, they read to inspire creativity — but for many cops nothing beats the most far-fetched fantasy tale to simply escape.

Here are the books they love, the books they hate and a few other bookish preferences from the precincts.

The more the merrier! That's what I say. Now you can hear me say it live on the Wordsy Podcast.

No, it’s book promotion in the age of the author video. Seth Greenland waxes eloquent on the rapidly blurring line between writer and salesman:

“Now, because of recent developments in the world of publishing, writer and merchant are fusing into one. Willy Loman and Arthur Miller have commingled. Call it -- forgive me -- Birth of a Salesman.”

Rowling bashing is still a popular sport, but apparently it’s merely a symptom of a far more insidious affliction—that of sexism against all female fantasy writers. “Bestselling female contenders remain unacknowledged while their male counterparts are robustly namechecked, absorbed reliably into the official history of the genre,” says Bidisha. Gasp! Could it be so?