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J.D. Salinger

Human arbitrarily deemed “royalty” smashes book sale records (This week in books)

January 13, 2023 by Nathan Bransford 2 Comments

This week! Books! A Los Angeles-area expat who, due to the entirely arbitrary circumstances of his birth and heredity, certain portions of society have assented to deem “royalty,” and who parlayed the resulting status and wealth into a marriage with a successful American actress, had a book ghostwritten about his life and went on to […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Don DeLillo, Filippo Bernardini, Gus Lobrano, J.D. Salinger, Janelle Monae, Joyce Meskis, Ken Brosky, Kevin Koczwara, Lincoln Michel, Markus Dohle, Prince Harry, Robert Caro, Robert Gottlieb, Shawn McCreesh, Susan Meachan

This Week in Publishing 2/12/10

February 12, 2010 by Nathan Bransford 55 Comments

Publishing decided to go and have a relatively quiet week this week. Thank you for the breather, publishing news! I had gotten used to the world being revolutionized. Every single day. First up, for those of you in the vicinity of New York City, on February 18th there will be an upcoming panel on Digital […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Google, J.D. Salinger, Life of a Writer, This Week in Publishing, Twitter

Can Authors Balance Publicity and Privacy in the Internet Era?

February 10, 2010 by Nathan Bransford 168 Comments

In the discussion on Monday regarding the person stopping by the office, an anonymous commenter chimed in with what I thought was an interesting point of discussion about boundaries in the Internet era. He/she writes: Have been thinking a lot about the writers who choose to keep their privacy, such as Salinger and Pynchon and […]

Filed Under: Book Marketing Tagged With: How to Promote a Book, J.D. Salinger, Life of a Writer, You Tell Me

This Week in Publishing 2/5/10

February 5, 2010 by Nathan Bransford 38 Comments

Yeah, wow. This was quite an epic week in publishing, and on top of this epic week I still have a couple of leftover weeks because I haven’t done a link roundup in a while, so… buckle up, everyone! We’re going for a long drive together. But first, this week in the forums we are […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Amazon, E-books, Future of Publishing, J.D. Salinger, literary agents, This Week in Publishing

RIP J.D. Salinger

January 28, 2010 by Nathan Bransford 42 Comments

One of the true greats has passed.

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: J.D. Salinger

The Myth of “Just An Author”

August 11, 2009 by Nathan Bransford 122 Comments

As you may have heard, Thomas Pynchon’s new novel INHERENT VICE was published last week, which is newsworthy for many reasons, but my favorite tidbit is that the notoriously publicity-shy Pynchon actually lent his voice to his book trailer and provided a playlist of songs for Amazon. It is indeed 2009. But other than these […]

Filed Under: Book Marketing Tagged With: Book Trailers, Cormac McCarthy, How to Promote a Book, J.D. Salinger, Life of a Writer, Oprah, publishing industry, Staying Sane While Writing, The Shack, Twilight

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