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Literary tourism is taking off (This week in books)

August 1, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! First up, don’t forget out my inaugural office hours next Thursday exclusively for newsletter subscribers! If you’re not already a subscriber, now’s a great time to join. It’s free! Now that’s August (how is it August??), we’re squarely in the dog days of publishing summer, but I still find a few links […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Alia Hanna Habib, Charles Yao, Comic-Con, Darcy Pattison, Heidi MacDonald, Jeanne Kisacky, Michelle Goldberg, Rachel Chang

“From Ideas to Shelves” 2024 recap! (This week in books)

July 26, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! I had the privilege of moderating the “From Ideas to Shelves” panel at Comic-Con yesterday with a fine roster of publishing and film industry professionals yesterday: Holly Root, Kathleen Ortiz, Ava Jamshidi, Matt Sugarman, and Angeline Rodriguez. It was a bit of a “best of times and worst of times” vibe. While […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Alex Vadukul, Ashley Stimpson, Comic-Con, Kate McKean, Kathleen Schmidt, Kenneth Chang, Madison Malone Kircher, N.K. Jamisin, Octavia Butler, Robert Ito, Roz Dineen, Sian Cain

See you at Comic-Con! (This week in books)

July 19, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! We’re well into the publishing summer slowdown so I don’t have a tremendous number of links for you, but I still rustled up a few. First up, I’ll be at Comic-Con next week moderating the From Idea to Shelves panel with a stellar lineup of agents! Swing on by and say hello! […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Alexandra Alter, Anil Ananthaswamy, China Miéville, Comic-Con, Kate McKean, Katy Hershberger, Keanu Reeves, Open Road, Science

HarperCollins workers go on strike (This week in books)

July 22, 2022 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! Thanks to everyone who attended the Comic-Con panel I moderated yesterday, which covered everything from publishing professionals’ experience of the last few years, the rise of feel-good content, a shift back to blockbuster theatrical releases, and how working from home has slowed things down in part from super prosaic things like agents […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Blockchain, Comic-Con, David L. Ulin, Elle Griffin, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Labor, Lisa Hall Wilson, Liska Jacobs, Marta Giaccone

Inflation hits the publishing industry (This week in books)

July 15, 2022 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! I have some really great links to share with you this week, but if you’ll indulge a promo, I’m headed back to Comic-Con in San Diego next week! In real life! If you’re attending, check out the panel I’m moderating on July 21: From Idea to Shelves: The Remix, where we’ll discuss […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Alexandra Alter, America's Next Great Author, Comic-Con, Elizabeth A. Harris, Emma Chamberlain

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