Nathan Bransford | Writing, Book Editing, Publishing
Helping authors achieve their dreams
This week! Books! A day late because Abolish ICE!! Congrats to the ALA award winners! Among the honorees: The Margaret A. Edwards lifetime achievement and Children’s Literature Legacy awards went to Candace Fleming. Two New Impersonation Scams to Watch For – Victoria Strauss, Writer Beware – Publishing scams were already rampant, and A.I. has only […]
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! I’m running a bit behind this Friday morning, so we’ll have links (mostly) without captions this week. But in the meantime, don’t forget about my second Office Hours on September 4 at 9pm ET / 6pm PT, exclusively for newsletter subscribers! Anthropic Settles Major AI Copyright Suit Brought by Authors – Annelise […]
This week! Books! This month is racing by, and it’s almost time for our next First Thursday Office Hours. Join me on September 4 at 9pm ET / 6pm PT and ask me anything! Exclusively for newsletter subscribers. Anthropic AI Class Action: Important Information for Authors – Authors Guild – Very important for authors whose […]
This week! Books! Some things are bigger than books and writing, and this feels like one of those weeks. The photos and videos out of the Los Angeles area are lurid and unsettling, no matter your political vantage point, and I guess that’s kind of the point in our eyeballs-are-money-and-power era. Even a mile away […]
This week! Books! The fantastic organization We Need Diverse Books has launched a new initiative to combat censorship called Books Saves Lives. Claire Kirch at Publishers Weekly has some background on the new program, and I hope you’ll consider donating! Who was the world’s first author? Over 4,000 years ago, a priestess in what is […]
Helping authors achieve their dreams
