Nathan Bransford | Writing, Book Editing, Publishing
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This week! Books! Seven-Figure Book Deal Cancelled Over AI Suspicions Raises Questions About AI Guardrails – Erin Somers, Publishers Lunch – So I guess we’re still doing this… According to Publishers Lunch, a $2.5 million two-book deal won at auction by Minotaur has been scuppered by the agents because they are “no longer able to […]
It often pains authors to have to shoehorn themselves into a category or genre. It seems like an unfair constraint cooked up in some foreboding tower by a cackling publisher, who maniacally decreed one day that authors everywhere must sort themselves into groups before being allowed to enter the gates. And sure, if you’ve let […]
This week! Books! First up, one of the results of the survey from a few weeks back was that people wanted me to post on social media more consistently. Consider it done! I’ve established a regular posting cadence sharing new advice and greatest hits on Threads, Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram, and would you believe it even […]
Over the weekend on Threads, the social media site where writers go to experience collective freak-outs, the main character of the day was a literary agent who, in short order, both complained about A.I. slop in query letters and said A.I. can be useful for researching comp titles. I don’t want to link directly to […]
This week! Books! Publishers, Authors File Class Action Lawsuit Against Google – Jim Milliot, Publishers Weekly / Book publishers sue Google for copyright infringement over Gemini AI training – Emma Loffhagen, The Guardian – Hachette, Cengage Learning, and Elsevier, along with author Scott Turow, have launched a class action lawsuit arguing that Google illegally repurposed […]
Whether you’re pursuing traditional publishing or self-publishing, it’s crucial to enter the process with the best novel or proposal you can possibly write. Here’s how to find the best book editor for you, and what to do once you’ve found one. In this post I’m going to cover: What is a book editor? The book […]
Helping authors achieve their dreams
