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The truth about self-promotion (This week in books)

February 9, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! First up, I’m going to be going on a midwinter hiatus for the next few weeks, and the blog will return around the end of the month. In the meantime, keep on reaching out if you’re looking for editing or coaching. A perennial publishing flashpoint flared up again this week as Rebecca […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Adam Morgan, Hugo Awards, Karen Outen, Kyle Chayka, Matteo Wong, Neal Stephenson, Rebecca Jennings, Rebecca K Reilly, September C. Fawkes

Being a full-time writer isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be (This week in books)

February 2, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! New-ish Penguin Random House CEO Nihar Malaviya stepped (tiptoed?) out of the shadows for an interview with Elizabeth A. Harris of the New York Times. Apart from quite a few people being at pains to speak to his listening and analytical abilities and a very 2024 allusion to the wonders of A.I. […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Audiobooks, Elisabeth Egan, Elizabeth A. Harris, Hugo Awards, Lincoln Michel, Maurice Sendak, Nicholson Baker, Nihar Malaviya, Penguin Random House, R.F. Kuang, Xiran Jay Zaho

Musk sinks Twitter in just a year (This week in books)

October 27, 2023 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! I’ll never forget it. When I was on vacation in Hawaii in the late 2000s, I checked my email and it was nothing but “new follower” notifications from Twitter. Sandwiched in between hundreds of these alerts was a congratulations. I’d made Twitter’s inaugural “Who to follow” list. Everyone from Mike Tyson to […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Bill Watterson, Casey Newton, Diversity, Hugo Awards, Rivka Galchen, Sara Zarr, T. Kingfisher, Twitter

Hugos and Bookers (This week in books)

September 9, 2022 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! Some literary awards have been dispensed, and congrats to all the winners and nominees! First, the Hugo award winners for science fiction and fantasy. The book winners (affiliate links): Best Novel: A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine Best Series: Wayward Children by Seanan McGuire Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book: […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Booker Prize, Elizabeth Strout, Hugo Awards, Lincoln Michel, publishing industry, Sterling Lord

Don’t dehumanize authors (This week in books)

August 7, 2020 by Nathan Bransford

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

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