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This Week in Publishing 7/11/08

July 11, 2008 by Nathan Bransford 74 Comments

My Kindle arrived! First impressions: not as clunky as I thought. I’m loving it for reading partials and after two days I already can’t imagine life without it. But there is definitely going to be an adjustment period. I’ll give a full rundown next week. Meanwhile, in other e-book news, Publishers Lunch reports that a […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Barnes and Noble, clients, E-books, How to Promote a Book, publishing industry, This Week in Publishing

Guest Blogger: Jennifer Hubbard On Going From Blog Reader to (soon to be) Published Author

April 21, 2008 by Nathan Bransford 40 Comments

As promised, today we’re peeling back the curtain a bit to show what happens behind the scenes as a book goes from a query to a book deal. My client Jennifer Hubbard is the author of the young adult novel BLACK MOUNTAIN ROAD, which will be published late 2009/early 2010 by Viking. It’s her debut […]

Filed Under: The Writing Life Tagged With: clients, guest blog, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, How to Find a Literary Agent

This Week In Publishing 4/18/08

April 18, 2008 by Nathan Bransford 19 Comments

ThIs WeEk In PuBlIsHiNg As some of you have already discovered, my wonderful and amazing client Rebecca Ramsey has started an equally wonderful and amazing blog! Check it out — Rebecca’s family is the proud owner of a dog who would probably win some sort of national award for craziest-things-eaten-by-a-dog-who-still-survived. She also has some beautiful […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Amazon, book recommendations, clients, How to Promote a Book, This Week in Publishing

This Week in Publishing 11/9/07

November 9, 2007 by Nathan Bransford 13 Comments

This week in the publishing! Over at MJ Rose’s blog Buzz, Balls & Hype, guest blogger and international bestelling author Barry Eisler, who knows himself some things about the publishing industry, has a series of posts about the future of said industry and especially book distribution of tomorrow. Definitely worth checking out. The writers are […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: clients, Future of Publishing, literary agents, publishing industry, This Week in Publishing, Writing Resources

Kim Long on researching THE ALMANAC OF POLITICAL CORRUPTION

September 27, 2007 by Nathan Bransford 11 Comments

As I mentioned in Tuesday’s post, my wonderful client Kim Long’s new book THE ALMANAC OF POLITICAL CORRUPTION, SCANDALS & DIRTY POLITICS is now in stores. Every time I pick up the ALMANAC, besides chuckling merrily at our history of political malfeasance and skulduggery (however bad today’s scandals seem they were 1,000 times worse a […]

Filed Under: The Writing Life Tagged With: clients, guest blog, revising, writing advice

Publication Alert: The Almanac of Political Corruption, Scandals & Dirty Politics

September 25, 2007 by Nathan Bransford 26 Comments

You may be interested to know that in the 1800s there was a politician named Robert Potter, who, after losing an election bid for the North Carolina House of Commons, challenged the victor to a duel. Failing to bait the winner into a fight, Potter’s supporters subsequently brawled with the victor’s supporters, leaving one dead […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: book recommendations, clients, Nonfiction

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