Nathan Bransford | Writing, Book Editing, Publishing
Helping authors achieve their dreams
Writing is an intensely personal endeavor, even if you choose to walk down the path toward publication. It’s a monumental task to write a book, and chances are you’re only going to finish if you really love what you’re writing. Thus, you must please yourself first. At the same time, if you’re hoping to reach […]
To self-publish or traditionally publish. That is the question. Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of agents and publishers or to take arms against a sea of books on Amazon, and by being among them, rise above? To die, to sleep (oh wait you won’t), to sleep perchance to […]
Hello! Nice to see you again. As summer comes to a close, I hope you are feeling rested, refreshed, and ready to get back to writing no seriously your book misses you. Writing breaks are necessary. They’re important. They reacquaint you with such pleasures as nature, friends, family, and rosé. But it can be tricky […]
Many of us look at screen all day as we work. We look at screens when we are reading the news. We look at screens when we’re watching TV. We look at screens when… Okay you get the point. Looking at screen all the time can make writing very difficult. To wit: We often write […]
I’ve known Rakesh Satyal for most of my adult life, ever since we were young publishing pups coming up at Curtis Brown Ltd. and Random House, respectively. Rakesh has gone on to have a super interesting career. After moving over to a successful editing stint at HarperCollins, Rakesh left the industry to work in branding, […]
A few months back, Gizmodo published an article asking why people are still using Microsoft Word. There are tons of word processing programs out there now, everything from bare bones to feature rich. So what program do you use to write, and why? Microsoft Word? Google Docs? Apple Pages? Scrivener? Oh, uh… Pen and paper? […]
Helping authors achieve their dreams
