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Which Literary Character Do You Totally Have a Crush On?

May 26, 2010 by Nathan Bransford 356 Comments

First off, I’m very pleased to report that after last month’s You Tell Me wherein I sheepishly admitted I had never read LORD OF THE RINGS: this has now been rectified. I even started with The Hobbit. Loved them! That Tolkien guy was a pretty good writer in case you haven’t heard. Now then. This […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Lord of the Rings, You Tell Me

What is the Funniest Book of All Time?

May 12, 2010 by Nathan Bransford 225 Comments

Thank you so much to everyone for participating in the Inaugural First Page Critique, and especially to Michelle, our Inaugural First Pagee. There have been requests afoot for this to be a regular feature, and: consider it done! Every Monday henceforth we’ll have a page (and occasionally query) critique, and I’ll continue to reward those […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: book recommendations, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Roald Dahl, You Tell Me

Which Book Would You Want to Be In?

July 15, 2009 by Nathan Bransford 199 Comments

Reader Neil Vogler passed along a recent Guardian post about the number of authors who are auctioning off the chance to name a character in one of their novels. This sparked Neil’s idea for today’s You Tell Me: if you could inhabit any book, which would you choose? I’d go with THE GREAT GATSBY. No! […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, You Tell Me

Who is Your Favorite Character of All Time?

May 20, 2009 by Nathan Bransford 538 Comments

It’s a simple question that I’m finding nearly impossible to answer: Who is your all-time favorite character in a novel? Sherlock Holmes? Quentin Compson? Jay Gatsby? Zaphod Beeblebrox? Willy Wonka? Leopold Bloom? Ahab? The whale?

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, James Joyce, Moby-Dick, Roald Dahl, William Faulkner, You Tell Me

This Week in Publishing 9/19/08

September 19, 2008 by Nathan Bransford 85 Comments

I’m off to New York next week for a whirlwind round of approximately 2,274 1/2 meetings, so posting will be sporadic until my return. Now if New York would kindly cooperate and keep its weather below 80 degrees I’d appreciate it. I’m watching you, humidity. Don’t get sassy. It may have been Gut Week in […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: E-Readers, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Publishing Economics, publishing industry, This Week in Publishing

Character and plot are inseparable

June 24, 2008 by Nathan Bransford 40 Comments

You may have the idea that you somehow have to choose between writing a plot-oriented novel and a character-oriented novel, and that one has to come at the expense of the other. I’m here to tell you why you don’t worry about these categories. It’s a completely false choice. UPDATED 5/30/19 There’s no such thing […]

Filed Under: Writing Advice Tagged With: Harry Potter, Hemingway, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, How to Write a Novel, J.D. Salinger, Moby-Dick, Shakespeare, Star Wars, writing advice

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