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The Mega 1 + Big 3 era arrives (This week in books)

December 4, 2020 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Books! Huge news dropped before Thanksgiving that ViacomCBS has agreed to sell Simon & Schuster to Penguin Random House’s Berteslmann. Assuming the deal survives antitrust scrutiny, it would essentially turn the Big 5 into one mega-publisher (whatever Penguin Random House + S&S ends up being called) and three major publishers (HarperCollins, Macmillan, and […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Amazon, book recommendations, J.R.R. Tolkien, Justina Ireland, Penguin Random House, Science Fiction, Yo-Yo Ma

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt up for sale (This week in books)

November 7, 2020 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Books! Yes, it’s a Saturday edition of TWIB but, like, what is time? Will every day be election day in the future? Who can say?? On to the links! Bestselling YA author Justina Ireland is offering a series of really fantastic writing advice dispatches in her newsletter, I highly recommend subscribing! It appears […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Bookshop.org, DongWon Song, Jessica Faust, Judy Lee Dunn, Justina Ireland, publishing industry

Ways to make a difference in the book world (This week in books)

June 5, 2020 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! Also justice! We’ve had an incredibly distressing week in America, and I know a lot of people are wondering how to get involved and support this movement to end systemic injustice and brutality. There are tons of exhaustive resources out there, from bail funds to proposals for reform to call scripts for […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: #BlackLivesMatter, Angie Thomas, Bookstores, Brandy Colbert, Camryn Garrett, Celeste Ng, Jason Reynolds, Jay Coles, Justina Ireland, publishing industry, We Need Diverse Books, Writer Beware, Young Adult Literature

How agents prep for an offer of representation (This week in books)

November 15, 2019 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Books! Writing! MAGIC. … Okay not magic. You have probably spent a lot of time imagining what it’s like receiving an offer of representation from a literary agent. But what’s happening on the agent’s end? Literary agent Jessica Faust shows what’s going on behind the scenes as an agent prepares to offer. Publishers […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Audiobooks, Janet Reid, Jessica Faust, Justina Ireland, Werner Herzog

How to write a character whose background is not your own (This week in books)

November 1, 2019 by Nathan Bransford 5 Comments

This week! Books! Holy cow it’s November! Nearly every author panel these days has a variation of this question: “Do you have any advice for writing about people who do not look like you?” Lots of authors out there are wringing their hands over whether they are “allowed” to tell certain stories or even just […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Alexander Chee, Blogs, Book Marketing, Jessica Faust, Justina Ireland, NaNoWriMo

The article that set publishing Twitter ablaze (This week in books)

September 20, 2019 by Nathan Bransford 7 Comments

This week! Books! Let’s get this one out of the way. Author Heather Demetrios was the talk of the publishing this week due to her long confession in a Medium post that she had no idea how book advances or typical literary careers worked when she got a big advance and proceeded to make many […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Augmented Reality, Humor, Jessica Faust, Justina Ireland, National Book Awards

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