Nathan Bransford | Writing, Book Editing, Publishing
Helping authors achieve their dreams
This week! Books! (A bit delayed and abbreviated because I’m on the road). LitHub’s annual counter-programming to the March Madness basketball tournament is here, and this year it’s a villainous one: who is the best villain in literature? Cast your votes! I, for one, feel Long John Silver as a 15 seed is an upset […]
No one opens up a novel to read about the boring bits of life: brushing teeth, doing the dishes, office drudgery. We read to escape those things, to be entertained, and to see the world in a new way. One of the difficulties of capturing some of life’s challenges in a novel is that they […]
If you’d like to nominate your own page or query for a public critique, kindly post them here in our discussion forums: Also, if you’d like to test your editing chops, keep your eye on this area or this area! I’ll post the pages and queries a few days before a critique so you can see how your redline […]
When I was writing the first draft of my novel, somewhere in the middle of a chapter I ground to a complete halt. For weeks I’d been riding the high of pounding the keyboard in a glorious rush, but now I was out of material. I had no idea what happened next. I sulked. I […]
The blog will be going on a brief sojourn this week as I celebrate America’s 243rd birthday. But never fear, I will be back on July 8 with more content! I have a whole lot in store, so stay tuned. In the meantime, if you need any help editing your book or desire some coaching, […]
The past few weeks! In the books! Want to start your own publishing company? Seems like as a good place to start as any, amirite?? There’s some really great advice in this guide at Writer Unboxed. Speaking of which, there’s a great interview with Joanna Penn, who has been innovating on self-publishing for some time […]
Helping authors achieve their dreams
