Nathan Bransford | Writing, Book Editing, Publishing
Helping authors achieve their dreams
Here’s my problem whenever I try to play a game of chess against a computer. Inevitably, I start up a game and plug along just fine until, at a certain point, I get a bit stuck and feel unsure of my next move. The “hint” feature beckons… And who am I to resist its siren […]
It seems these days like the glacial machinations of publishing are grinding ever more slowly. The near-infinite competition on Amazon is only being made worse by a cascade of A.I. slop. People spend hours a day with their hands are glued to their phones, staring into the glowing abyss. It’s no wonder that I’m hearing […]
Alyce and I have been on a Bob Ross kick lately, and it’s the first time I’ve watched him since I was home sick from school in the 1990s, back when I had to diligently check PBS every half an hour to see if I was going to be lucky enough to catch an episode. […]
Nathan here, I invited author and editor Christine Pride to post about writer’s retreats–she should know, she has one coming up this fall! Perhaps you’ve noticed new writer’s retreats popping up across the country and around the world. (Including my own!) These getaways offer a chance to escape your daily routine, travel somewhere new, exotic, or […]
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! On Monday I posted about some weekend experiments […]
One of the great open secrets about this blog is that I struggle to implement much of the advice I dish out in these virtual pages. Whenever an author feels chagrined because they have read certain posts of mine a million times and still fail to put the principles into practice, I can very confidently […]
Helping authors achieve their dreams
