This week! Books! First up, a programming announcement: I’m going to be traveling (see above) and taking a blog break for the next few weeks, but there will be some guest posts for you to enjoy! I’ll be back with new posts on September 27. Feel free to contact me in the meantime if you […]
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The ambiguous loss when a book doesn’t sell (This week in books)
This week! Books! Hello, September. Where did you come from? Nearly every writer everywhere who pursues traditional publication at some point confronts one of their books not selling, and for those who self-publish, you might experience a pang of relative silence. I really enjoyed this article by Danielle Lazarin about the ambiguous and painful loss […]
Here comes “hot books fall?” (This week in books)
This week! Books! We’re coming to the end of publishing summer, when those lazy summer Fridays give way to exciting fall submissions. Here are some of the best articles I saw from the past week. Our hopes for a hot vaxxed summer may have been dashed by Delta, but in the book world, sales are […]
Amazon to launch…department stores (This week in books)
This week! Books! In a bid to prove that time is a flat circle, Amazon is developing plans to launch…department stores. Yes, really. The first stores will reportedly be in Ohio and California and will sell all sorts of things and facilitate returns. In yet another step in the publishing industry’s long, long history of […]
Reese Witherspoon sells Hello Sunshine for $990 million (This week in books)
This week! Books! Get vaccinated! Reese Witherspoon has become quite a publishing mogul with her book club and production company, which produced book-to-film adaptations like Wild, Gone Girl, and Big Little Lies. Witherspoon just sold Hello Sunshine for an eye-popping $990 million. Wow. Andrew Cuomo resigned as governor of New York this week and controversy […]
Cormac McCarthy is not on Twitter (This week in books)
This week! Books! After the sudden death of longtime Scholastic CEO Richard Robinson, there’s now a succession drama surrounding his estate that’s worthy of, well, HBO’s Succession. This would be merely the stuff of tabloids, and not fit for the esteemed halls of This Week in Books, except that control of a $1.2 billion publisher […]
