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This Week in Publishing 10/22/10

October 22, 2010 by Nathan Bransford 41 Comments

This Week in Publishing Normal This Time Whew! I may have missed a few items in publishing news this week as I chipped away at the mountain that sprouted in my office while I was out, but here are a few of the many things that happened over the past week. Don’t forget about Page […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: iPad, Kindle, Lord of the Rings, Old Spice Guy, Suzanne Collins, Young Adult Literature

Do you suffer from one of these writing maladies?

August 10, 2010 by Nathan Bransford 236 Comments

Writing maladies

(Commercial voice): There are pernicious writerly germs out there infecting pages all around the world. Left uncured they can be fatal. Talk to your book doctor or literary health provider if you notice any of these symptoms: Yoda Effect Difficult to read, sentences are, when reversing sentences an author is. Cart before horse, I’m putting, […]

Filed Under: Writing Advice, Writing Novels Tagged With: Dialogue, Hemingway, How to Write a Novel, Old Spice Guy, writing advice

This Week in Publishing 7/23/10

July 23, 2010 by Nathan Bransford 51 Comments

It was a pretty eventful week in publishing this, um, week so let’s get right to it. The news that everyone is talking about is agent Andrew Wylie’s move to deal directly and exclusively with Amazon for e-book rights to many classic works by authors such as Vladimir Nabokov, Hunter S. Thompson, Philip Roth, and […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Amazon, E-books, Future of Publishing, How to Write a Novel, Old Spice Guy, Reading Like a Writer, This Week in Publishing

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