Nathan Bransford | Writing, Book Editing, Publishing
Helping authors achieve their dreams
This week! Books! Hoo boy we have a lot of links this week and before I get to your weekly dose of publishing controversies, let’s start with some good publishing industry news. Thanks to a generous donation by the wonderful Celeste Ng, We Need Diverse Books is launching a publishing industry intern program that will […]
Lots of links this week, so let’s get to it. First up, there has been a huge controversy sparked by Harlquin’s announcement that they would be forming a self-publishing arm called Harlequin Horizons. Victoria Strauss at Writer Beware wrote a very helpful initial roundup of the plan and controversy, Kristin Nelson wondered if it was […]
As you may have heard, Thomas Pynchon’s new novel INHERENT VICE was published last week, which is newsworthy for many reasons, but my favorite tidbit is that the notoriously publicity-shy Pynchon actually lent his voice to his book trailer and provided a playlist of songs for Amazon. It is indeed 2009. But other than these […]
NEXT week in Publishing is Thanksgiving week, and in honor of the festivities I will be running a series of posts called “Thanksgiving Leftovers!” Yes, these are just re-runs of old posts AND YOU’RE GOING TO LIKE IT. Ahhh, nothing like a lot of yelling to make everyone know they’re around family. Pass the sweet […]
This!! weekinpublishing. This was the “huge awards announced” publishing week, and thanks to mkcbunny for being the very first to tell me that Cormac McCar.. I mean Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Congratulations to Ms. Lessing, who is now 10 million Swedish crowns richer. That’s a whole lot of meatballs and cheap-but-functional […]
BIG week in publishing. First, some background information. Typically in publishing contracts, when an author’s work goes out of print there is a mechanism in place for the author to ask for those rights back so they can try and place the rights elsewhere. Which makes a lot of sense. If a publisher isn’t actively […]
Helping authors achieve their dreams
