Breaking through requires more than just talent — it demands a strategic combination of craft, savvy and the kind of persistence that borders on obsession.

You can get the entire run of The Wheel of Time, including the prologue and two companion books, for $18 in the latest Humble book bundle.

For many of us, time slips through our fingers like sand. It’s an elusive commodity we can’t buy back but desperately seek to manage. Even before the buzz of digital calendars and the ping of ...