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How publishing has changed in the past fifty years (This week in books)

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This week! Books! First up, please stick with me past a housekeeping matter because there’s some analysis about the last fifty years in publishing that I want to make sure you see. Housekeeping: Elon Musk’s ongoing demolition of Twitter reached yet another low this week as he removed headlines from links, further antagonizing anyone running […]

The #ThankAWriter Project

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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 […]

This Week in Publishing 5/14/10

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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 […]

Themes Schmemes Part II

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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 […]

Will the Piracy Threat Resolve Itself?

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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 […]