Nathan Bransford | Writing, Book Editing, Publishing
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This is one of the cooler things I’ve seen on the Internet lately. Make your own pulp magazine cover! (via CNET)
Helping authors achieve their dreams
