Nathan Bransford | Writing, Book Editing, Publishing
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This week! Books! A few links for you on this sunny Friday in NYC. In a move that could really shake up the audiobook industry, and thus the entire publishing industry, Joan Solsman at CNET reports that Spotify sees audiobooks as a massive area of growth, which was behind its recent acquisition of audiobook distributor […]
This week! Books! I know you’re probably bored today because so little is happening in the world and you’re looking for some links to click on. WELL. I have some for you!! Some great publishing news this week as bestselling authors Nicola and David Yoon are starting an imprint oriented toward romances featuring heroes of […]
You may have heard from, oh, I don’t know, the Time Magazine cover or the Vogue profile or the rave reviews or the Picoult/Weiner spat or the author video where Franzen says he doesn’t like author videos or the fact that the President of the United States was spotted with it….. anyway, you might have […]
Throughout this past year there’s been a persistent idea percolating around the literati: could literary fiction really be dead? No for real this time? No less an authority than Philip Roth wondered last year whether people still had the patience to read novels. Last month Lee Siegel wrote an article wondering “Where Have All the […]
Thanks again so much to everyone for your kind words about JACOB WONDERBAR, I really, really appreciate it! But meanwhile, there was a week in publishing and let’s summarize it, hmm? First up, lest ye think I’ve gone all high-fallutin’ on you, Anne & May are hosting an America’s Next Top Model elimination pool where […]
The writosphere is aflutter after Stephen King said, in an interview with USA Weekend: “The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.” After some further thoughts on Erle Stanley Gardner (King: “terrible”), Jodi Picoult (good), Dean Koontz (good and bad) […]
Helping authors achieve their dreams
