Ivy Seidel's dream of becoming a great American novelist seem to be fading as she runs low on money and takes a job teaching creative writing to prisoners, but she soon finds herself falling for one of the inmates and regaining her creative passion.

Two authors find themselves drawn into a terrifying nightmare as they are confronted by the ghosts of their dead children.

Yolanda Garcia finds success with her first novel in which she made characters out of her family members and friends, but her "fictionally victimized" relatives exact revenge by telling all they know about the author, Yo.

Davis & Dash is a large publishing company in Manhattan, and as the fall season approaches five authors are slotted for publication--but only one will be a bestseller, as each tries to out maneuver the other.

Lily Maynard is a seventy-two-year-old author who, when stricken with Parkinson's Disease, moves in with her son and daughter-in-law.

Elizabeth Toliver returns to her hometown nearly thirty years after she beat herself into a coma trying to escape from the outhouse she was trapped in, along with more than twenty snakes, by a cruel group of classmates, and her return triggers a chain of deadly events related to that terrifying night years earlier.

Dink Duncan and his two friends investigate the apparent kidnapping of famous mystery author Wallis Wallace.

Senor C, an aging author, sets out to write his opinions on the changing world and draws the criticisms and ire of world leaders, ordinary citizens, and friends and family from around the world.

Jigsaw and Mila investigate when their teacher announces that a writer whose identity is a secret will visit their class.