Nathan Bransford | Writing, Book Editing, Publishing
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This week! Books! First up, I’m going to be taking a blog break for the rest of May to recharge and do some traveling. I’m still very much open for business for manuscript edits, query/synopsis critiques, and consultations, so please feel free to reach out to me about that in the meantime. On to the […]
This week! Books! Murdoch-owned publisher HarperCollins was a very notable non-signer of a letter from major publishers speaking out against the Trump administration’s move to eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services, an institution that provides crucial support for the nation’s museums and libraries. Advocacy organization Authors Against Book Bans, the HarperCollins union, and […]
This week! Books! The U.S. Naval Academy’s library has banned books like I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou and The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, while Mein Kampf and white supremacist texts remain on the shelves. I wonder why. Twelve students and the ACLU have sued defense secretary Pete Hegseth […]
This week! Books! Tariffs, tariffs, tariffs. In a week where the whole world struggled to digest the impact of America’s ever-changing tariff landscape, the American Booksellers Association has a helpful rundown on how this will impact the publishing industry and bookstores more holistically. Books themselves are exempt from tariffs, though the components of books (paper, […]
This week! Books! The Trump tariffs are tanking your 401k at the moment (if you’re lucky enough to have one), but how will they affect publishers, whose books are often printed in Asia and Europe? According to Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg at the WSJ, they don’t really know either. The U.S. Copyright Office, apparently one of […]
This week! Books! The wonderful organization We Need Diverse Books is launching the inaugural We Need Diverse Books Day next Thursday, April 3, and they have a range of suggested activities, from posting/sharing diverse books to making a donation to the organization. I’ll be returning to this subject next week, but for reasons that are […]
Helping authors achieve their dreams
