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The truth about freelance editors (This week in books)

May 10, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! If you spent any time at all on Twitter By Mark Zuckerberg–aka Threads–this week, you probably came across some hyperbole about freelance editing and whether paying for editing prior to seeking publication is akin to lighting all of your money on fire or, contra, so vital to your publication chances you might […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Alice McDermott, BookTok, Cathy Yardley, Editing, Lincoln Michel, Mike Shatzkin, Nathan Heller, Nonfiction, Pulitzer Prize, Ron Charles, We Need Diverse Books, Whales

This Week in Publishing 7/16/10

July 16, 2010 by Nathan Bransford

This week in double rainbows I mean publishing… Stephen Parrish pointed me to a NY Times survey of the world of book trailers, those magical creatures that use video to convince us we should read books. While only 0.1% of everyone out there decided to purchase a book via a book trailer, the kids these […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Double Rainbow Guy, E-books, How to Write a Novel, Jacob Wonderbar, James Joyce, Nonfiction, This Week in Publishing, William Faulkner, writing advice

This Week in Publishing 3/13/09

March 13, 2009 by Nathan Bransford

Lots of links this week, and they don’t all fit neatly into the theme of Negativity Week, so in lieu of an actual theme to the news I will instead be saying “Bah!” at the end of every paragraph regardless of my feeling about the news I’ve just relayed. Consider it negativity, old man style. […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: literary agents, Nonfiction, Suspense, This Week in Publishing

This Week in Publishing 1/9/09

January 9, 2009 by Nathan Bransford

There is a huge amount of news this week, and TWIP is bursting at the seams! Better get started. First off, very sad news: long time reader Travis Erwin’s house recently burned down, and Erica Orloff and Stephen Parrish have pitched in to create a website where you can donate virtual bricks to help him […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: E-books, Neil Gaiman, Nonfiction, Publishing Economics, publishing industry, This Week in Publishing, Twitter

What’s Your Favorite Book Based On a True Story?

May 14, 2008 by Nathan Bransford

I had nearly finished reading Jon Krakauer’s INTO THIN AIR on the way to work this morning and I had to resist walking down the street with my nose in the book. This proved to be a wise choice when I was nearly plowed over in a crosswalk by an SUV inattentively making a right […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: book recommendations, Nonfiction, You Tell Me

This Week in Publishing 3/7/08

March 7, 2008 by Nathan Bransford

This Week in the Wonderful World of Publishing: Remember last week when I talked about Word Count and talked about how some people in publishing think that short books are coming into style? This just in from AP Books Reporter Hillel Italie (via Publishers Lunch): short books (especially of the nonfictional varietal) are in style. […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: How to Find a Literary Agent, Nonfiction, publishing industry, This Week in Publishing

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