This guide offers a roadmap on how to write a book from beginning to end.

Or they cannot break in—or do not even try—and write their book from a distance, without an insider’s insights. Two new books demonstrate how hard it is to write well about Silicon Valley.

That methodical "just do it" approach to writing is what got Dalcher here, with a talked-about book, doing newspaper interviews about dystopia, and referring to countries as "markets".

You might have great reasons to write a book, but do you have the capabilities to execute?

From low-quality computer-written books flooding the market to potential copyright violations, publishing is the latest industry to feel the threat from rapid developments in artificial ...