Nathan Bransford | Writing, Book Editing, Publishing
Helping authors achieve their dreams
This week! Books! TikTok has been a somewhat unlikely boon to the publishing industry via its books-obsessed crowd, nicknamed BookTok, which has propelled authors like Colleen Hoover and Emily Henry to mega-bestsellerdom. So it likely sent a chill through the business that a federal court unanimously upheld a law that requires its parent company, ByteDance, […]
This week! Books! First up, I’m taking an early fall blog break over the next few weeks and will be back posting in October. As always, I’ll still be answering emails and scheduling edits and coaching sessions, so feel free to reach out if I can be helpful. Sophie Masson has a cool post on […]
This week! Books! The highly anticipated National Book Award longlists have been released, and congrats to the deserving nominees. I’m rather struck by the short titles in the nominees for fiction. None more than two words! Fiction Nonfiction Young People’s Literature Translated Literature Poetry Gen Z is into both reading and accessorizing, so I was […]
This week! Books! I had the privilege of moderating the “From Ideas to Shelves” panel at Comic-Con yesterday with a fine roster of publishing and film industry professionals yesterday: Holly Root, Kathleen Ortiz, Ava Jamshidi, Matt Sugarman, and Angeline Rodriguez. It was a bit of a “best of times and worst of times” vibe. While […]
This week! Books! We’re well into the publishing summer slowdown so I don’t have a tremendous number of links for you, but I still rustled up a few. First up, I’ll be at Comic-Con next week moderating the From Idea to Shelves panel with a stellar lineup of agents! Swing on by and say hello! […]
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 […]
Helping authors achieve their dreams
