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This year in books 2020

December 18, 2020 by Nathan Bransford

This year! Books! This will be the last “This Week in Books” of our godforsaken year 2020, and I wanted to take a minute to reflect on the year that was in the book world. While I was recovering from COVID in early April, I interviewed publishing industry sage Mike Shatzkin on the effects the […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: #BlackLivesMatter, Bookshop.org, Bookstores, Chris Jackson, Christine Carron, Diversity, Jay-Z, Jennie Nash, John le Carré, Joshua Rothman, Mike Shatzkin, pandemics, publishing industry, Stephen King

This Past Few Weeks in Books 3/14/14

March 14, 2014 by Nathan Bransford

Photo by me. I’m on Instagram here. The! Past! Few! Weeks! In! Books! Lots and lots and lots of good stuff. Let’s get started. Should books come out faster? The idea has long taken hold with self-publishing, but it’s percolating elsewhere. Even traditional publishing imprints are experimenting with releasing series as fast as possible. Are […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Staying Sane While Writing, Stephen King, This Week in Books

The Temptation of Thinking Someone Has Made It

October 21, 2010 by Nathan Bransford

One of the corollaries of the “if only” game is that there are some writers out there who could not possibly have reason to worry about anything as they have achieved a level of success that is unsurpassed, and who represent the pinnacle of the writerly world. Examples include King, Stephen; Rowling, J.K.; Meyer, Stephenie. […]

Filed Under: Writing Advice Tagged With: J.K. Rowling, Life of a Writer, Staying Sane While Writing, Stephen King, Stephenie Meyer

Writing vs. Storytelling

August 3, 2010 by Nathan Bransford

In the comments section of last week’s post about the one question writers should never ask themselves when reading (retroactive spoiler: the question is “do I like this?”), some people took the post to mean that I was essentially saying that if a book is popular it must be well-written, ergo the most popular books […]

Filed Under: Writing Advice Tagged With: Bestsellers, J.K. Rowling, Stephen King, Stephenie Meyer, writing advice

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 fine art of getting blurbs

August 4, 2009 by Nathan Bransford

By: Lauren Baratz-Logsted What are blurbs? Before we get started, let’s clarify our terms, since I’ve occasionally seen confusion on this issue. A blurb is not the back-jacket description of a book; it’s not the inside-flap description of a book. It is a quote from an established author, the purpose of which is to help […]

Filed Under: Book Marketing Tagged With: guest blog, How to Promote a Book, Stephen King

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