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 […]
Ian McEwan
This Week in Publishing 5/14/10
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 […]
What Was Your Favorite Book Published in the Aughts?
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 […]
Themes Schmemes Part II
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?
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 […]
E-Book Pricing and Publication Debate Erupts
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 […]
