Nathan Bransford | Writing, Book Editing, Publishing
Helping authors achieve their dreams
This week! Books! First up, we have two polls running, first the 18th annual extravaganza Will You Ever Buy Mostly E-books. I’ll reveal those results early next week! We also have one on whether listening to audiobooks counts as reading, and here are the returns so far: Pretty close, but the “listening is listening” crowd […]
This week! Books! First up, please keep my favorite publishing sage Mike Shatzkin and his wife in your thoughts, as she shared news of his declining health on Facebook. Just a tremendous, extremely fun individual and font of knowledge. This morning, I loved revisiting my interview with him in the early days of the pandemic […]
This week! Books! First up, it’s always a thrill when one of my editing clients lands a book deal for a project we worked on together, congrats to Heather Aimee O’Neill! While publishing executives gather in Frankfurt, Germany to make deals and talk about how their acquisition by private equity behemoths is going, a bombshell […]
This week! Books! Engine of capitalism in human form Taylor Swift does not just have a multi-billion dollar concert series under her belt, she is also the subject of the highest selling Little Golden Book in the imprint’s 81-year history, which recently surpassed one million copies sold. Last week I obliquely referenced a YA Goodreads […]
This week! Books! There were two breakout bestsellers in publishing this week that are sure to make fantastic case studies in Harvard Business Review. Here’s how to make a book a bestseller in the 2020s: You too can make your book a bestseller by following these very easy steps! Oh, and it may also help […]
Helping authors achieve their dreams
