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Ronan Farrow drops Hachette, employees walk out (This week in books)

March 6, 2020 by Nathan Bransford

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 […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: American Dirt, Celeste Ng, Dan Blank, Diversity, Florence Osmond, Hachette, Jess Walton, Kate Elizabeth Russell, Oprah, Ronan Farrow, Science

This Week in Publishing 11/20/09

November 20, 2009 by Nathan Bransford

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 […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Bestsellers, Cormac McCarthy, E-books, Future of Publishing, Jacob Wonderbar, Oprah, Publishing Economics, Self-publishing, Stephen King, This Week in Publishing, Twilight

The Myth of “Just An Author”

August 11, 2009 by Nathan Bransford

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 […]

Filed Under: Book Marketing Tagged With: Book Trailers, Cormac McCarthy, How to Promote a Book, J.D. Salinger, Life of a Writer, Oprah, publishing industry, Staying Sane While Writing, The Shack, Twilight

This Week in Publishing 11/16/07

November 16, 2007 by Nathan Bransford

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 […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: How to Write a Query Letter, literary agents, Oprah, publishing industry, This Week in Publishing

This Week in Publishing 10/12/07

October 12, 2007 by Nathan Bransford

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 […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Cormac McCarthy, Oprah, publishing industry, This Week in Publishing

This Week in Publishing 5/18/07

May 18, 2007 by Nathan Bransford

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 […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: book recommendations, literary agents, Marilynne Robinson, Michael Chabon, Oprah, publishing industry

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