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Louise Erdrich wins the Pulitzer for fiction (This week in books)

June 18, 2021 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! The 2021 Pulitzer Prizes were announced, and Louise Erdrich won the prestigious prize for fiction! Here are the book-related winners: The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich (Fiction) Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain (History) The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, BookEnds, Facebook, Google, Louise Erdrich, Matt Holmes, Meghan Garber, Pulitzer Prize, Tim Marcin

Tips if you’re struggling to write right now (This week in books)

April 10, 2020 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! It’s really difficult to concentrate these days and few people I know are as productive as usual. Anne R. Allen has a great post on why it’s so tough to write right now as we deal with our collective grief, and she has some tips on how to keep moving forward. In […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Amazon, Anne R. Allen, Book Marketing, book recommendations, BookEnds, coronavirus, Janet Reid, literary agents, Moby-Dick, Shakespeare

Layoffs hit the publishing industry (This week in books)

April 3, 2020 by Nathan Bransford 2 Comments

This week in the apocalypse! I mean books! Well, in my interview with Mike Shatzkin earlier in the week we speculated that a wave of layoffs would hit the industry in the wake of the pandemic, and it didn’t take long for that to bear out. Macmillan announced an unspecified number of layoffs, as well […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: BookEnds, Bookstores, coronavirus, David Gaughran, Dolly Parton, Macmillan, Man Booker

The state of diversity in publishing (This week in books)

January 31, 2020 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Book! First up, I’m going to be taking a quick one week blog break to focus on revisions on my new novel and my travels (see above). I’ll still be answering emails though, so feel free to reach out for editing. The blog be back the week of February 10. The fallout from […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: American Dirt, Andrzej Sapkowski, BookEnds, Diversity, Mike Shatzkin, Synopsis

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