Nathan Bransford | Writing, Book Editing, Publishing
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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