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How publishers are mining the backlist (This week in books)

June 2, 2023 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! No posts next week as I’m headed to NYC for a round of lunching with publishing professionals and meeting up with friends. I aim to be back blogging later on in June, but I’ll be checking emails in the meantime, so continue to reach out for editing. In my update on the […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Alexis Gunderson, Censorship, Elizabeth A. Harris, Lincoln Michel, Open Road, Peter Jamison, WGA, Zara Raheem

The Dahl controversy is capitalism not wokeism (This week in books)

March 10, 2023 by Nathan Bransford 2 Comments

This week! Books! Lots of links saved up since the last edition of This Week in Books, so let’s get to it. A controversy erupted over the last few weeks involving Puffin and the Roald Dahl Story Company creating new editions of Dahl’s children’s novels with updates to some of Dahl’s language with an aim […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Charles Dickens, ChatGPT, HarperCollins, Ian Fleming, Jesse Armstrong, Lincoln Michel, Matthew Walther, Monica Hesse, Prince, Roald Dahl, Writer Beware

AI gets weird (This week in books)

February 17, 2023 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Books! The blog will go dark for the next few weeks as I take a planned breather (some might refer to this as a vacation). I’m planning to be back in March. Also: My editing slots are booking up extremely quickly this year, so please continue to reach out to me to get […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Chuck Wendig, Corina Knoll, Emily Leibert, Jevon Philips, Kate McKean, Kevin Roose, LeVar Burton, Lincoln Michel, Nikki High

Social media is a dumpster fire (This week in books)

February 3, 2023 by Nathan Bransford 2 Comments

This week! Books! You know it, I know it. Social media just isn’t what it used to be. Approximately 15 years into the social media era, and 8 years after GameGate marked the beginning of the end, we’re at a messy nadir, where the giants (Facebook/Instagram, Twitter, Snap) are earnestly committing suicide, the insurgent (TikTok) […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: ALA Awards, Censorship, Donald Maass, Florida, Hunter Patterson, Judith Viorst, Lincoln Michel, Madelin McIntosh, Martin Riker, Patrick Sauer, Penguin Random House, Peter C. Baker, S.E. Hinton, Social Media, Sophie Vershbow, Writing and Sports

Human arbitrarily deemed “royalty” smashes book sale records (This week in books)

January 13, 2023 by Nathan Bransford 2 Comments

This week! Books! A Los Angeles-area expat who, due to the entirely arbitrary circumstances of his birth and heredity, certain portions of society have assented to deem “royalty,” and who parlayed the resulting status and wealth into a marriage with a successful American actress, had a book ghostwritten about his life and went on to […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Don DeLillo, Filippo Bernardini, Gus Lobrano, J.D. Salinger, Janelle Monae, Joyce Meskis, Ken Brosky, Kevin Koczwara, Lincoln Michel, Markus Dohle, Prince Harry, Robert Caro, Robert Gottlieb, Shawn McCreesh, Susan Meachan

Hugos and Bookers (This week in books)

September 9, 2022 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Books! Some literary awards have been dispensed, and congrats to all the winners and nominees! First, the Hugo award winners for science fiction and fantasy. The book winners (affiliate links): Best Novel: A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine Best Series: Wayward Children by Seanan McGuire Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book: […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Booker Prize, Elizabeth Strout, Hugo Awards, Lincoln Michel, publishing industry, Sterling Lord

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