Nathan Bransford | Writing, Book Editing, Publishing
Helping authors achieve their dreams
A modest proposal. The submission process in the publishing industry these days is increasingly broken. Many literary agents have long had a “no response means no” policy on query letters, but now the shoe is on the other foot and many editors at publishing houses are straying into “no response means no” policy, leaving agents […]
When I heard that Southwest Airlines will soon be eliminating its esoteric-but-efficient boarding system, likely in favor of more premium offerings, I notched it as a big loss: It’s one of the last communal experiences in American society that hadn’t yet been ruthlessly stratified by class. Now, sure, you have to be rich enough to […]
With social media fragmenting, I’m bringing back my old “You Tell Me” Wednesday discussions to try to get good old fashioned blog conversations going. If you’re reading in a feed reader or via email, please click through to the post to leave a public comment and join the discussion! This past week, publishing tongues were wagging as […]
Nearly every week I hear from an author who has a question for me because they’re in the process of being scammed. Publishing scams are RAMPANT. They have always existed, but they’ve reached epidemic status of late, along with America’s horrid overall scam culture. There was finally some good news on this front as some […]
If you have a hankering to get away from it all and hole up in an inspiring little cabin in rural Wales, UK, to write to your heart’s content, have I got just the place for you. Last year, my good friend Julia Forster, a writer, author coach, and publicist, officially opened the Write Within […]
An unfortunate controversy erupted on social media over the weekend when a literary agent, Hilary Harwell, tweeted that she wanted to see a novel similar to a query she just rejected: This appalled Book Twitter/Threads to no end, with many accusing her of stealing the original author’s idea. Harwell was subsequently let go from KT […]
Helping authors achieve their dreams
