Nathan Bransford: Literary Agent and Author
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Nathan Bransford
San Francisco, CA
United States

I'm a literary agent with the San Francisco office of Curtis Brown Ltd. and the author of JACOB WONDERBAR AND THE COSMIC SPACE KAPOW, which will be published by Dial Books for Young Readers in 2011.

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Sep
01
2010

You Tell Me: Does Angst Help You Write?

There is perhaps no archetype more persistent throughout the history of art and literature than that of the tortured artist. From the tragically real cases (like Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, and ...

Aug
31
2010

Franzen, FREEDOM and the Era of the Blockbuster

You may have heard from, oh, I don't know, the Time Magazine cover or the Vogue profile or the rave reviews or the Picoult/Weiner spat or the author video where Franzen says he doesn't like author vid...

Aug
30
2010

What High Concept Means

High concept Ah, high concept. If high concept were a person it would be a teenager because it's often totally misunderstood. If high concept were a tool it would be a sledgehammer. If high concept...

Aug
27
2010

This Week in Publishing 8/27/10

Thissssssssss Weeeeeeek... InPublishingPage Critique Friday is alive and well!! It's happening over in the Forums. You do not need to register in the Forums to check out the Page Critique thread, but ...

Aug
26
2010

Violence in Children's Literature: Is There a Line?

Today's Shelf Awareness includes a post by Sheryl Cotleur from the fantastic bookstore Book Passage about the uneasiness she felt when reading the final installment in the incredibly popular HUNGER GA...

Aug
25
2010

You Tell Me: How Do You Feel About Websites Poking Fun At Queries?

As surely as the changing of the moon and the appearance of new seasons of Survivor, there always seems to be a website out there devoted to poking fun at bad queries. These come and go, with varying ...