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How publishers are mining the backlist (This week in books)

June 2, 2023 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! No posts next week as I’m headed to NYC for a round of lunching with publishing professionals and meeting up with friends. I aim to be back blogging later on in June, but I’ll be checking emails in the meantime, so continue to reach out for editing. In my update on the […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Alexis Gunderson, Censorship, Elizabeth A. Harris, Lincoln Michel, Open Road, Peter Jamison, WGA, Zara Raheem

The key to creative breakthroughs (This week in books)

May 26, 2023 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Books! Last week I brought you news of Sudowrite’s new service that will help you write a (seemingly) terrible draft thanks to AI, and in a very 2023 news story, a fictional sex act created by the Omegaverse fandom has resulted in the the AI service being caught plundering material. Yes really. Penguin […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, Bertelsmann, Creativity, KC Baker, Rumsey Taylor, Sudowrite, T.J. Newman, Thomas Rabe, Zachary Small

PEN and PRH sue a Florida school district over book banning (This week in books)

May 19, 2023 by Nathan Bransford 4 Comments

This week! Books! Big news this week as PEN America, Penguin Random House, and a group of authors have filed suit against the Escambia County School District for violating the equal protection clause in the Constitution by targeting disproportionately nonwhite and LGBTQ authors with book bans. This is a significant legal salvo in the midst […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, Authors Guild, Censorship, Heather Armstrong, J.R. Moehringer, James McGowan, Jeffrey Fleishman, Jessica Faust, Kate McKean, New Leaf Literary, PEN America, Penguin Random House, Prince Harry, Sarah McCarry, Sudowrite

How to make a bestseller in the late social media era (This week in books)

May 12, 2023 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! There were two breakout bestsellers in publishing this week that are sure to make fantastic case studies in Harvard Business Review. Here’s how to make a book a bestseller in the 2020s: You too can make your book a bestseller by following these very easy steps! Oh, and it may also help […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Amal El-Mohtar, Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood, BTS, Dean Koontz, Harold S. Kushner, Jane Eisner, Kate Dwyer, Max Gladstone, Molly Ker Hawn, Pulitzer Prize, Robert F. Worth, Taylor Swift

WGA goes on strike (This week in books)

May 5, 2023 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! Writers Guild of America, representing screen and TV writers, initiated a strike this week for the first time since a 2007 shutdown that lasted 100 days. Despite the boom of streaming service content, inflation-adjusted median pay has declined 23%, and writers also have their eye on competition from artificial intelligence. Writers of […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Anna Kodé, Censorship, David Kipen, Kate McKean, Laura Portwood-Stacer, Los Angeles, Motoko Rich, Raymond Chandler, Steph Cha, WGA

Can writers feature a protagonist from a different race? (This week in books)

April 28, 2023 by Nathan Bransford 4 Comments

This week! Books! Bestselling author Richard North Patterson tackled race in his newest novel and while he claims he received positive feedback from agents, editors, and even the head of a publishing house, no one picked it up, which he attributes to his decision to include two Black protagonists. He writes passionately against a publishing […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Adele Annesi, Autofiction, Richard North Patterson, Stephen Marche

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