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DongWon Song on the state of publishing (This week in books)

October 28, 2022 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Books! Literary agent DongWon Song has restarted their newsletter, the aptly named Publishing Is Hard, and they recently posted a really fantastic talk they gave at the Surrey International Writer’s Conference, which ranges from the effects the pandemic had on publishing to advice for authors and the importance of perseverance. An absolute must […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Carl Phillips, DongWon Song, Eve Fairbanks, James McGowan, R.L.Stine

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt up for sale (This week in books)

November 7, 2020 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Books! Yes, it’s a Saturday edition of TWIB but, like, what is time? Will every day be election day in the future? Who can say?? On to the links! Bestselling YA author Justina Ireland is offering a series of really fantastic writing advice dispatches in her newsletter, I highly recommend subscribing! It appears […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Bookshop.org, DongWon Song, Jessica Faust, Judy Lee Dunn, Justina Ireland, publishing industry

What does it mean when a book gets optioned? (This week in books)

October 9, 2020 by Nathan Bransford 2 Comments

This week! Books! Quick note that I’ll be away on a brief holiday the week of October 12 and back with fresh content on October 19. Feel free to contact me if you need editing! It’s book award season, and congrats to American poet Louise Glück for winning the Nobel Prize, to this year’s MacArthur […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Beverly Cleary, Dan Blank, DongWon Song, Jacqueline Woodson, Jessica Faust, Kate McKean, Louise Glück, N.K. Jemisen, National Book Awards, Nobel Prize, Science, Star Wars, Tracy Marchini

Don’t dehumanize authors (This week in books)

August 7, 2020 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! Certain segments of the book buying and reviewing world have long held that they can say whatever the heck they want about authors, but any authors who respond are by definition “authors behaving badly.” The latest broadside against this dynamic comes from author Kacen Callender, who argues that the “idea that an […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, DongWon Song, Gayle Jones, Hugo Awards, Kacen Callender, Stephenie Meyer

Comic-Con literary agent panel!

July 27, 2020 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

I was extremely psyched to participate in a fantastic Comic-Con@Home panel with Quressa Robinson (Nelson Literary Agency), Holly Root (Root Literary Agency), DongWon Song (Howard Morhaim Literary Agency), and Lars Theriot (Industry Entertainment)! We talked about everything from the nuts and bolts of what agents really do to the current publishing and film landscape. I […]

Filed Under: Literary Agents Tagged With: DongWon Song, Holly Root, Lars Theriot, Quressa Robinson

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