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Horton hears a huh? (This week in books)

March 5, 2021 by Nathan Bransford 6 Comments

This week! Books! Your weekly culture war freakout is brought to you by Dr. Seuss. After the Seuss Estate announced that they would let six of his titles with racist caricatures go out of print, quite a few people seemingly lost their freaking minds and opted to stick it to the Seuss Estate by… uh… […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Angie Hodapp, DIYMFA, Dr. Seuss, Kristin Nelson, Lincoln Michel

Twilight is back! (This week in books)

May 8, 2020 by Nathan Bransford 4 Comments

This week! Books! Twilight is back! Stephenie Meyer revealed that there will indeed be a new Twilight novel on August 4, Midnight Sun, which will retell the series from vampire Edward Cullen’s perspective. I for one am quite curious how he felt attending high school when he was over one hundred years old. I have […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Colson Whitehead, coronavirus, Dan Blank, David, DIYMFA, Pulitzer Prize, Stephenie Meyer, Suzanne Collins, Writing and Sports

What to do when your manuscript is “quiet” (This week in books)

January 10, 2020 by Nathan Bransford 4 Comments

This week! Books! The fallout continued from the implosion of Romance Writers of America. Their annual awards, the RITAs, have been canceled this year. They plan to regroup and retroactively issue the awards for both 2019 and 2020 next year. You haven’t really started going through the submission process until you receive some extremely confusing […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: DIYMFA, Jane Friedman, Key & Peele, Mike Shatzkin, Tracy Marchini

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