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Watch out for these publishing scams (This week in books)

January 15, 2021 by Nathan Bransford6 Comments

This week! Books! Well. It was a week. How are we doing out there? Publishing scams are pretty much as old as publishing, and they’re proliferating in our digital and gullible age. Anne. R. Allen has a good roundup of publishing scams to watch out for in 2021, including new ones (manuscript phishing!) and old […]

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Filed Under: This Week in BooksTagged With: Angie Thomas, Anne R. Allen, Confederacy of Dunces, George Saunders, Jane Friedman, Janet Reid, Lincoln Michel, Scams

What are the worst endings in books? (This week in books)

October 23, 2020 by Nathan Bransford9 Comments

This week! Books! I have tons and tons of great links for you this week, but real quick, I have two brand new pages that I want to make sure you see. I have a new blog landing page that makes the categories and search bar a little more prominent to help you find what […]

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Filed Under: This Week in BooksTagged With: Christopher Brown, Cory Doctorow, Janet Reid, Kate McKean, Kyle Chayka, Lauren D. Woods, Mike Shatzkin, Molly Stern, National Book Awards, publishing industry, Ron Charles

J.K. Rowling…… (This week in books)

June 12, 2020 by Nathan Bransford22 Comments

This week! Books! As thousands of people around the world continued protesting injustice and brutality in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and at the start of Pride month, J.K. Rowling decided to double down with views on transgender people widely seen as transphobic, first in a series of tweets, then on a more […]

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Filed Under: This Week in BooksTagged With: #BlackLivesMatter, J.K. Rowling, Jane Friedman, Janet Reid, literary agents, Trans Rights, writing advice

Tips if you’re struggling to write right now (This week in books)

April 10, 2020 by Nathan BransfordLeave a Comment

This week! Books! It’s really difficult to concentrate these days and few people I know are as productive as usual. Anne R. Allen has a great post on why it’s so tough to write right now as we deal with our collective grief, and she has some tips on how to keep moving forward. In […]

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Filed Under: This Week in BooksTagged With: Amazon, Anne R. Allen, Book Marketing, book recommendations, BookEnds, coronavirus, Janet Reid, literary agents, Moby-Dick, Shakespeare

Write what makes you excited (This week in books)

March 27, 2020 by Nathan Bransford5 Comments

This week! Books! First up, thanks everyone for all the well wishes this past week, they meant a lot. I’m doing much better now and things should start picking up again around here. (And I’m still available to edit your work). Being sick these past few weeks has not been fun at all, but I’m […]

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Filed Under: This Week in BooksTagged With: book recommendations, Bookstores, Christina Lauren, Janet Reid, Jessica Faust, Sesame Street

Literary agents behaving badly (This week in books)

February 28, 2020 by Nathan Bransford1 Comment

This week! Books! First up, congratulations to Angie Thomas, whose wonderful novel The Hate U Give just marked three full years on the New York Times bestseller list! Incredible. (Here’s my interview with Angie from a few years back). The fallout from the COVID-19 coronavirus hit the Bologna Book Fair, an important venue where agents […]

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Filed Under: This Week in BooksTagged With: Angie Thomas, Bologna Book Fair, Clive Cussler, Janet Reid, Jessica Faust

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