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The best villains in literature (This week in books)

March 7, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! (A bit delayed and abbreviated because I’m on the road). LitHub’s annual counter-programming to the March Madness basketball tournament is here, and this year it’s a villainous one: who is the best villain in literature? Cast your votes! I, for one, feel Long John Silver as a 15 seed is an upset […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Alix Strauss, Dan Blank, Daniel Engber, Jane Friedman, LitHub, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Sally Kim, Sally Rooney, Tariffs

All about dedications in books (This week in books)

September 20, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! First up, I’m taking an early fall blog break over the next few weeks and will be back posting in October. As always, I’ll still be answering emails and scheduling edits and coaching sessions, so feel free to reach out if I can be helpful. Sophie Masson has a cool post on […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., Andrea Long Chu, Cynthia Swanson, Draft2Digital, Hans Haacke, Kate McKean, Kathleen Schmidt, M.H. Miller, Sally Rooney, Self-publishing, Sophie Masson, Thomas Gebremedhin

This Year in Books (2023)

December 22, 2023 by Nathan Bransford

This year! Books! When we look back, I think we’ll see 2023 as a significant year of transition for the publishing industry. And yet what we’re transitioning to feels murkier to predict than at any time I’ve been involved in the business. The year is full of several different potentially massive changes, but the full […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Aman Kochar, Baker & Taylor, Isabella Hammad, Jim Milliot, Sally Rooney, Victoria Strauss

The curious case of the midsized publishers (This week in books)

October 15, 2021 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! Now that Workman has been acquired by Hachette and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has been acquired by HarperCollins, where have all the midsized book publishers gone? Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly surveys this dying breed and cites the difficulty of building a backlist, the capital needed to grow into midsized publisher, and ongoing […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Angela Ackerman, Arthur C. Brooks, Betsy Lerner, Inkitt, Jane Friedman, Jessica Faust, publishing industry, Sally Rooney

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