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The Myth of “Just An Author”

August 11, 2009 by Nathan Bransford 122 Comments

As you may have heard, Thomas Pynchon’s new novel INHERENT VICE was published last week, which is newsworthy for many reasons, but my favorite tidbit is that the notoriously publicity-shy Pynchon actually lent his voice to his book trailer and provided a playlist of songs for Amazon. It is indeed 2009. But other than these […]

Filed Under: Book Marketing Tagged With: Book Trailers, Cormac McCarthy, How to Promote a Book, J.D. Salinger, Life of a Writer, Oprah, publishing industry, Staying Sane While Writing, The Shack, Twilight

This Year in Publishing 2008

December 19, 2008 by Nathan Bransford 46 Comments

2008 will be remembered as the year the future caught up with the publishing industry. For a long time we’ve been hearing rumblings about how publishers needed to reorganize, how bookstores couldn’t survive, how technology would impact the industry, and how e-books would shake everything up. And yet for much of the 00’s, change always […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Borders, End of Publishing As We Know It, Future of Publishing, Publishing Economics, publishing industry, The Shack, This Week in Publishing

Going from Small Presses to Big Publishers

October 20, 2008 by Nathan Bransford 48 Comments

Hope everyone had a great weekend, and I’m especially hoping that you recovered from fainting with joy upon seeing Phil’s dad on the Amazing Race last night. Oh. Um. Maybe that was just me. Reader Kathryn Born wrote in…. uh… when was it Kathryn? A while ago. She had a pretty simple but deceptively challenging […]

Filed Under: Literary Agents Tagged With: How to Find a Literary Agent, Life of a Writer, publishing industry, The Shack

Following the Market

July 22, 2008 by Nathan Bransford 47 Comments

A couple of different interesting threads of discussion opened up in the comments section of yesterday’s post, and there’s one in particular that I’ve been seeing around the Internet lately in different forms, namely the sentiment (or resentment) that agents and publishers determine what’s popular and what becomes a bestseller. To a certain extent, yes, […]

Filed Under: Publishing Industry Tagged With: publishing industry, The Shack

This Week in Publishing 6/27/08

June 27, 2008 by Nathan Bransford 27 Comments

Busy week in publishing! The Wall Street Journal profiled another literary success story, this time for Andrew Davidson, who opted for an out-of-the-box query to Eric Simonoff that outlined why Eric shouldn’t represent him. (Kids, don’t try this at home. These stunts were performed by professionals). Doubleday snatched it up for quite the load of […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Google, Kindle, The Shack, This Week in Publishing

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