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The #ThankAWriter Project

March 20, 2013 by Nathan Bransford 24 Comments

None of us would be who we are today without the influence of the books we’ve read throughout our lives. And for those of us who are writers, books have shaped us so much we have chosen to write them ourselves and hopefully leave behind works that resonate with a new generation of readers. As […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: #ThankAWriter, Ian McEwan

This Week in Publishing 5/14/10

May 14, 2010 by Nathan Bransford 54 Comments

This week in………. TYRA MAIL! Screeeeeammmm!!!!!!! Yes, it has finally happened. Tyra Banks. Novelist. The model/talk show host/judge-of-fierceness has smized her way to a book deal for a YA novel called “Modelland,” involving a land populated by “Intoxibellas,” who are, of course, hot and fierce and will cry dramatically if you ask them about the […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Borders, Cormac McCarthy, David Foster Wallace, E-books, E-Readers, How to Find a Literary Agent, Ian McEwan, Jane Austen, This Week in Publishing, Young Adult Literature

What Was Your Favorite Book Published in the Aughts?

December 16, 2009 by Nathan Bransford 170 Comments

Oh yes, it’s the end of 2009, which means it’s time for decade retrospectives and this blog is no exception. Last week we named our favorite books published in 2009 – what about the decade? What was your favorite book published in the aughts? Aside from books by my clients, I’m going to have to […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: book recommendations, Ian McEwan, Jonathan Franzen, You Tell Me

Themes Schmemes Part II

October 27, 2009 by Nathan Bransford 169 Comments

I have reached some sort of blog milestone in that I was halfway through writing a blog post about some writers focusing too much on the themes of their book in queries before I realized….. something felt a little familiar. Then I realized: I’d written the exact same post before. Right down to the blog […]

Filed Under: Query Letters Tagged With: How to Find a Literary Agent, How to Write a Query Letter, Ian McEwan, Junot Diaz, Marilynne Robinson, writing advice

Will the Piracy Threat Resolve Itself?

September 24, 2009 by Nathan Bransford 279 Comments

As e-book adoption steadily increases, I think writers and artists have a very good reason to wonder if easily pirated e-books are going to do to the publishing industry what Napster did to the record industry. With news that Dan Brown’s last novel was pirated within hours of being released and with e-reader adoption growing […]

Filed Under: Business of Publishing Tagged With: E-books, Future of Publishing, Ian McEwan, Piracy, publishing industry

E-Book Pricing and Publication Debate Erupts

July 16, 2009 by Nathan Bransford 137 Comments

We have ourselves an e-book debate going on. The whole to-do was started by a Wall Street Journal article about independent publisher Sourcebooks’ decision to delay the e-book publication of Kaleb Nation’s BRAN HAMBRIC until at least six months after the initial print publication. Sourcebooks CEO Dominique Raccah stated, “Hardcover books have an audience and […]

Filed Under: E-books Tagged With: Amazon, E-books, Future of Publishing, Ian McEwan, Publishing Economics, publishing industry, Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

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