Nathan Bransford | Writing, Book Editing, Publishing
Helping authors achieve their dreams
This week! Books! Yesterday, I moderated the panel “From Ideas to Shelves” at Comic-Con in San Diego, which included professionals across books, film, and TV. Fascinating discussion! After the film/TV world took a beating with the Hollywood strike and collapse of the streaming golden era, and after Los Angeles took a beating earlier this year […]
This week! Books! TikTok has been a somewhat unlikely boon to the publishing industry via its books-obsessed crowd, nicknamed BookTok, which has propelled authors like Colleen Hoover and Emily Henry to mega-bestsellerdom. So it likely sent a chill through the business that a federal court unanimously upheld a law that requires its parent company, ByteDance, […]
This week! Books! First up, some stats that are as bracing as the January weather outside (not really, I live in Southern California) to kick off our roundup. A full 46% of Americans did not finish a book last year and 5% more read just one, so if you read two books you’re in the […]
This week! Books! Engine of capitalism in human form Taylor Swift does not just have a multi-billion dollar concert series under her belt, she is also the subject of the highest selling Little Golden Book in the imprint’s 81-year history, which recently surpassed one million copies sold. Last week I obliquely referenced a YA Goodreads […]
This week in books! First off, thank you so much to everyone who chimed in with feedback on our community. One thing I learned: people didn’t really know about the discussion forums! Oops. I’m going to endeavor to make those more visible going forward. But seriously, thank you to everyone who chimed in. (And I’d […]
When hotels receive good or bad reviews on sites like TripAdvisor, you’ll often see someone from the hotel respond. They may apologize for the experience or clarifying their version of events if the customer didn’t provide the whole story. And when there’s a good review, they’ll thank the reviewer. Meanwhile, in booklandia, the merest whiff […]
Helping authors achieve their dreams
