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Hugos and Bookers (This week in books)

September 9, 2022 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Books! Some literary awards have been dispensed, and congrats to all the winners and nominees! First, the Hugo award winners for science fiction and fantasy. The book winners (affiliate links): Best Novel: A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine Best Series: Wayward Children by Seanan McGuire Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book: […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Booker Prize, Elizabeth Strout, Hugo Awards, Lincoln Michel, publishing industry, Sterling Lord

The Great Resignation hits publishing (This week in books)

March 18, 2022 by Nathan Bransford 5 Comments

This week! Books! The Great Resignation. Publishing style. Editors are creaking under chronically low pay, ever-expanding publisher expectations, publisher under-investment in support infrastructure like contracts departments… and oh yes, all of this is happening amid bonanza years for publishers’ bottom lines. This makes it accordingly more difficult for young agents to get their books read […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Alexandra Horowitz, Censorship, coronavirus, Elisabeth Egan, Erin Somers, Kate McKean, Meredith Maran, Octopus, Olivia Fisher, Picture Books, publishing industry, Quarto, Rider Strong

How a book is made (This week in books)

February 25, 2022 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This is one of those weeks when the news is distressing and other topics can seem a bit trivial in comparison. But books are still crucial, writing will keep playing an important role in whatever’s next, and your writing matters. So on to the links. The NY Times has a pretty fascinating look at how […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Alexandra Alter, Amazon, Angela Ackerman, Anne R. Allen, David Moldawer, George Saunders, Jessica Faust, Lincoln Michel, publishing industry

Kids strike back against book banners (This week in books)

January 14, 2022 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Books! A bit of a quiet week out there in publishing land as people get back into the swing of January and omicron life, but I have a few links. After a school board in Pennsylvania grabbed a list of books, documentaries, and articles created by a diversity committee and instead banned everything […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Book Banning, David Marchese, Liz Alterman, Neal Stephenson, publishing industry

F.B.I. nabs the mysterious book thief (This week in books)

January 7, 2022 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! One of the great running mysteries in the publishing world appears to have at last been solved. For years, someone has been tricking publishing employees into sending them unpublished manuscripts, from famous authors to the relatively obscure. Why? No one quite knew. But this week, the F.B.I. arrested Filippo Bernardini, a Simon […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: bell hooks, David Moldawer, Filippo Bernardini, Isidra Mencos, Jane Friedman, Joan Didion, Laurie McLean, Parul Sehgal, Politics, publishing industry

This year in books 2021

December 10, 2021 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

Did this year actually happen? Can you prove it? As the calendar ticks inexorably to 2022, getting a finger on the pulse of the business is really difficult, and feels like an exercise in contradictions. Book sales are really strong but face an uncertain 2022, and it’s as hard as it’s ever been to break […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Book covers, David Streitfeld, Harry Potter, publishing industry, Social Media

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