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Audible adds a controversial new feature (This week in books)

July 19, 2019 by Nathan Bransford 2 Comments

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This week! Books! There was some news that roiled the publishing world this week, as Audible announced a feature called Audible Captions, which would display text while an audiobook is playing. Ya know. Kinda like an e-book. Publishers and literary agents responded with alarm, noting that Audible had not come to them for permission for […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Amazon, Audible, Austin Kleon, Instagram, Jessica Faust, Politics, Rachelle Gardner, Sarah Enni, The Hills

What I Learned About Writing While Watching Reality Television

November 16, 2009 by Nathan Bransford 155 Comments

As longtime blog readers know, I have a bit of a reality TV habit. I still watch Survivor (I know), I was a habitual The Hills watcher before our messy breakup, and I would very much like to be friends with Phil Keoghan from the Amazing Race, who seems like the type of person who […]

Filed Under: The Writing Life Tagged With: How to Promote a Book, How to Write a Novel, Staying Sane While Writing, The Hills, writing advice

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Kindle

August 17, 2009 by Nathan Bransford 103 Comments

Bear with me here. I know that per the last polling around 45% of you would rather be tasered than part with your paper books in favor of e-books, and thus I would imagine that reading a blog post about the bizarre e-book reading habits of a blogging literary agent can’t be much fun for […]

Filed Under: E-books Tagged With: E-books, E-Readers, Kindle, publishing industry, The Hills

This Week in Publishing 9/12/08

September 12, 2008 by Nathan Bransford 52 Comments

Publishing, in This Week As alluded to yesterday, in what has to be the greatest tragedy since that time Lauren Conrad went out with that one boring guy who didn’t pay attention to her and then the next day Whitney was like, “Whaaaaaat?” and Lauren was like, “I know!”….. Lauren Conrad sold a three book […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Harry Potter, How to Promote a Book, J.K. Rowling, monkeys, publishing industry, The Hills, This Week in Publishing

Welcome!

September 11, 2008 by Nathan Bransford 89 Comments

Holy Tyra! Thanks so much to the Blogger team for making this today’s Blog of Note, and a warm welcome to everyone visiting for the first time. We talk about books, reality TV shows, publishing, monkeys, writing, and Cormac McCarthy, not necessarily in that order. If you’re a writer (and really, who isn’t these days?) […]

Filed Under: Writing Advice Tagged With: Cormac McCarthy, How to Write a Query Letter, The Hills

This Week in Publishing 8/22/08

August 22, 2008 by Nathan Bransford 30 Comments

This is a seriously linktastic This Week in Publishing, so let’s get right to it. Let’s see… hmm… where to begin….. Wait, I know! Franz Kafka’s taste in porn! Oh, and you thought I was joking. Via Publishers Lunch, a controversy is brewing because a British scholar Went There and detailed Kafka’s penchant for prOn. […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: publishing industry, The Hills, This Week in Publishing, Writing Resources

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