Nathan Bransford | Writing, Book Editing, Publishing
Helping authors achieve their dreams
This week! Books! Trump’s return chills embattled LGBTQ book industry: ‘They’re stepping back’ – Surina Venkat, The Hill / What if Editors Don’t Want <Your Kind of Book> Anymore? – Kate McKean, Agents + Books – We’ve long suspected that book bans and censorship have cast a chill over the publishing world, particularly on the […]
This week! Books! Lots of links saved up over the past few weeks, let’s get to them! Anthropic Scores a Landmark AI Copyright Win—but Will Face Trial Over Piracy Claims – Kate Knibbs, Wired – In a huge ruling on A.I. and copyright, a federal judge agreed that using books to train A.I. is fair […]
The blog will be dark the next few weeks for a winter break. Feel free to reach out to me for editing! This week! Books! I particularly enjoyed this week’s crop of articles, which have served as a nice respite from *waves at the world outside* all of that. First, let’s get some of the […]
This week! Books! First up, impersonation scams are the rage among the unsavory people trying to prey on authors. Be really careful that the “agent” who reaches out to you really is who they say they are. Now, according to Writer Beware’s Victoria Strauss, there is an entire website imitating Macmillan Publishers. Yes, really. Be […]
This week! Books! Victoria Strauss at the indispensable site Writer Beware has a new scam to watch for, which starts with a “literary agent” promising to work only on commission who will take your book to the next level, only for additional fees to start rolling in. Be careful out there! Also from Writer Beware, […]
This week! Books! It’s been a seriously dark time in this country with a horrific mass shooting at massage parlors in Atlanta and an uptick in hate crimes against Asian-Americans. Author Alexander Chee talked to poet and critic Cathy Park Hong about how anti-Asian violence must be a bigger part of the anti-racism discourse, and […]
Helping authors achieve their dreams
