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The art of revision (This week in books)

December 3, 2021 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! First up, there are two great ways you can contribute to some worthy causes this week. I’m donating a query critique that you can bid on to support We Need Diverse Books! And please consider donating to my 13th annual Heifer International fundraiser! Now then, I have lots and lots and lots […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Alice Sebold, book recommendations, David Moldower, Don Maass, Fonda Lee, Jane Friedman, Joe Zadeh, Kiese Laymon, Lincoln Michel, Realms of Ruin, Science Fiction, Tressie McMillan Cottom, We Need Diverse Books

The backlist is hot (This week in books)

June 4, 2021 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! It’s now officially summer in the publishing world, and happy Summer Friday to all who are celebrating by shutting their laptops around lunch time. Just a few links for your weekend pleasure Publishers Weekly hosted a virtual U.S. Book Show, and BookBub has a good roundup of some of the marketing and […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Bashirat Oladele, Book Marketing, E-books, Jessica Faust, Science Fiction

The Mega 1 + Big 3 era arrives (This week in books)

December 4, 2020 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! Huge news dropped before Thanksgiving that ViacomCBS has agreed to sell Simon & Schuster to Penguin Random House’s Berteslmann. Assuming the deal survives antitrust scrutiny, it would essentially turn the Big 5 into one mega-publisher (whatever Penguin Random House + S&S ends up being called) and three major publishers (HarperCollins, Macmillan, and […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Amazon, book recommendations, J.R.R. Tolkien, Justina Ireland, Penguin Random House, Science Fiction, Yo-Yo Ma

The greatness of characters with bad ideas (This week in books)

April 24, 2020 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! It’s been a week of very bad ideas, but Gizmodo has a great post on how bad character choices in fiction can lead to some great work. To wit: Jurassic Park! In Amazon news, in the UK supply shortages resulted in book buy buttons being removed. And the New York Times profiled […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Amazon, book recommendations, California, coronavirus, Jurassic Park, Mary Kole, Science Fiction

Jeff Bezos is now $24 billion richer (This week in books)

April 17, 2020 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! Things might be feeling pretty apocalyptic outside but since the onset of the pandemic Jeff Bezos is $24 billion richer. So, uh, there’s that. In not-Amazon news, the co-founder of LitHub and Electric Lit is launching Bookshop, an online bookstore that supports independent bookstores and sports a rival affiliate program. You might […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Bookshop, coronavirus, Dan Blank, Instagram, Karen Inglis, Libraries, Sarah Enni, Science Fiction, Taylor Lorenz

The Pulp-o-mizer

February 27, 2013 by Nathan Bransford

This is one of the cooler things I’ve seen on the Internet lately. Make your own pulp magazine cover! (via CNET)

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Science Fiction

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