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Tips if you’re struggling to write right now (This week in books)

April 10, 2020 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! It’s really difficult to concentrate these days and few people I know are as productive as usual. Anne R. Allen has a great post on why it’s so tough to write right now as we deal with our collective grief, and she has some tips on how to keep moving forward. In […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Amazon, Anne R. Allen, Book Marketing, book recommendations, BookEnds, coronavirus, Janet Reid, literary agents, Moby-Dick, Shakespeare

How five authors are changing the YA world (This week in books)

February 14, 2020 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Books! I really loved this feature in Elle on five amazing authors who are reshaping the young adult fiction landscape: Tomi Adeyemi, Akwaeke Emezi, Elizabeth Acevedo, Angie Thomas, and Nic Stone. Daniel Frank took a look at the most beloved and most hated classics according to Goodreads users. The Godfather at 4.37 and […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Akwaeke Emezi, American Dirt, Angie Thomas, Elizabeth Acevedo, literary agents, Mary Higgins Clark, Moby-Dick, Nic Stone, Tomi Adeyemi

Are we stripping modern books bare?

July 9, 2012 by Nathan Bransford 72 Comments

Reader Drew Turney wrote to me recently with an interesting question. There’s so much advice, commentary, and opinion about stripping away anything unessential to a book’s plot. Writing in the modern era emphasizes moving the plot forward at all costs, and everything else is “ruthlessly killed off no matter how darling.” Digressions and detritus that […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Charles Dickens, Culture, David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, Moby-Dick

This Week in Books 11/4/11

November 4, 2011 by Nathan Bransford 32 Comments

This week! Books! Actually it’s a few weeks of links so be prepared for a full-on link deluge. Remember back in January when I said the tablets were coming? Well, they definitely are coming fast. Not only does Amazon have the Kindle Fire tablet coming soon, rumors say B&N will debut a new Nook tablet […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, E-books, E-Readers, Moby-Dick, This Week in Books

This Week in Books 2/18/11

February 18, 2011 by Nathan Bransford 41 Comments

Very very very sad news this week as, after several years of speculation, Borders has finally succumbed and filed for bankruptcy. It was Chapter 11 bankruptcy (re-org) and not Chapter 7 (Eric from Pimp My Novel had a roundup of the potential difference there), but even still 200 stores will close, and my heart goes […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Borders, E-Readers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Moby-Dick, Publishing Economics, This Week in Books

This Week in Books 2/4/11

February 4, 2011 by Nathan Bransford 22 Comments

Whew! What a week! Paragraphs were read. Winners were crowned. Tiredness was reached. But I still have a few links for you. First up, I’m going to start with the sad stuff as there’s not one but two bankruptcies in the news. First is Borders, which is the subject of numerous rumors that it could […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Borders, contests, E-books, Moby-Dick

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