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A.I. comes for the book world (This week in books)

July 12, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! First up, some very distressing news regarding two famous authors. The late Alice Munro’s daughter Andrea Robin Skinner published an essay about how Munro stood by Skinner’s stepfather even after he admitted to sexually abusing Skinner. Nearly as distressing as that, all of this was more or less an open secret among […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., Alice Munro, Andrea Long Chu, Andrew Schenker, Caspar David Friedrichs, Cassandra Jenkins, Elisabeth Egan, Emily Henry, Fitzcarraldo Editions, Grayson Haver Currin, Inkitt, Jacques Testard, John Grisham, Kate McKean, Neil Gaiman, R.O. Kwon, Rachel Cusk, Rebecca Ackermann, Rebecca Mead, Ryan Lackey, Zachary Fine

Questions: Answered. Kind Of.

January 27, 2009 by Nathan Bransford

Is there room to play with genres if you’re querying in one and want to write while you wait. In other words, will an agent expect you to stick close to what you’ve submitted? I stay fairly dark, but play in horror, sci-fi and a mixture of semi-literary commercial fare. Also, am I able to […]

Filed Under: Literary Agents Tagged With: Amazon, Cormac McCarthy, How to Find a Literary Agent, How to Write a Novel, John Grisham, Kindle, Michael Chabon, Paranormal, Self-publishing, Young Adult Literature

The danger of genre hopping

December 3, 2007 by Nathan Bransford

I read books from nearly every single genre, and I know I’m not alone — book lovers love books, all kinds of books. And so it naturally follows that when people sit down at the old typewriter they want to write books in every genre under the sun. Sometimes at the same time. When I […]

Filed Under: The Writing Life Tagged With: John Grisham, literary agents, monkeys, publishing industry, writing advice

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