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A Mr. Beast book is coming… (This week in books)

March 28, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! The wonderful organization We Need Diverse Books is launching the inaugural We Need Diverse Books Day next Thursday, April 3, and they have a range of suggested activities, from posting/sharing diverse books to making a donation to the organization. I’ll be returning to this subject next week, but for reasons that are […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., Cat Zhang, Hachette, James Patterson, Maris Kreizman, Meta, Mr. Beast, Sean Manning, Tahereh Mafi, We Need Diverse Books

Cormac McCarthy… well, you just gotta read it (This week in books)

November 22, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! First up, the blog will take next week off for the Thanksgiving holiday, and whether you’re in the U.S. or not, let me just say I’m very thankful for you! Thanks for reading and commenting and just generally hanging in there. Now then. In a harrowingly bizarre profile that should have content […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Barnes & Noble, Charlie Jane Anders, Cormac McCarthy, DW McKinney, Hachette, Jordan Michelman, Maris Kreizman, Pooja Makhijani, Publishers Marketplace, Survivor, Vincenzo Barney, We Need Diverse Books

Taylor Swift bypasses the publishing industry (This week in books)

October 18, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! First up, it’s always a thrill when one of my editing clients lands a book deal for a project we worked on together, congrats to Heather Aimee O’Neill! While publishing executives gather in Frankfurt, Germany to make deals and talk about how their acquisition by private equity behemoths is going, a bombshell […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Amazon, Cullen Murphy, Ilana Masad, Kindle, Maris Kreizman, Michael Cader, Target, Taylor Swift, TikTok, Zando

National Book Awards longlists! (This week in books)

September 13, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

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 […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Gen Z, Kate McKean, Kathryn Schulz, Liane Moriarty, Marcia Bjornerud, Maris Kreizman, National Book Awards, The Folio Society

Writing books you don’t want your parents to read (This week in books)

March 15, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! First up, I’ve heard from multiple authors who’ve been scammed recently by fraudsters impersonating agents and publishers. Please, please educate yourself on how to spot a publishing scam and be very wary of people contacting you out of the blue with something that seems too good to be true. Yes, agents and […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Brandon Sanderson, Daniel Immerwahr, David Marchese, Elizabeth Minkel, Frantz Fanon, Jeremy Strong, Lincoln Michel, Maris Kreizman, Moby-Dick, R.O. Kwon, Writer Beware

46% of Americans didn’t read a book in 2023 (This week in books)

January 12, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! First up, some stats that are as bracing as the January weather outside (not really, I live in Southern California) to kick off our roundup. A full 46% of Americans did not finish a book last year and 5% more read just one, so if you read two books you’re in the […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Gal Beckerman, Goodreads, Jessica Boyall, Laurie McLean, Lincoln Michel, Little Golden Books, Maris Kreizman, New York Times, Sandeep Vaheesan, Tara Pincock, Whales

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