Nathan Bransford | Writing, Book Editing, Publishing
Helping authors achieve their dreams
This week! In personal agenting news, I received some great news this week about one of the projects I recently handled: Audible announced that none other than Parker Posey is narrating the new audiobook of Betty Friedan’s feminist classic THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE. Pretty cool. It’s apparently Google’s turn in front of the firing squad this […]
En Weekus Publishus First off, a big congratulations is in order to friend-o’-the-blog Patricia Wood for her Orange Prize nomination for her novel LOTTERY! She was just one of seven debut novelists to be nominated, so let’s all give an orange juice toast to Patricia! If you work at the publisher Thomas Nelson, chances are […]
Publishing in Week This Backwards For those you out there who are fans of both the NBA and The Wire, Sam Rubenstein from SLAM Magazine has an awesome article comparing The Wire characters to NBA players. My favorites: Larry Brown as Valcheck and Kevin McHale as Rawls. Sam couldn’t decide on a Carcetti by press […]
SPOILERS ABOUND So why was this show so good? People often talk about the “Dickensian” aspect of The Wire as a shorthand to refer to the complexity of the show, and they’re somewhat right. It’s intricately plotted across all levels of society, there are multiple intersecting plotlines, and at times it’s difficult to follow. But […]
Still reading! I tell you what, reading 675 entries while also having a job is quite a task. Holly and I hope to have finalists for you soon, but meanwhile, there was a week in publishing, and it was an eventful one. In perhaps the biggest publishing news, Publishers Lunch is reporting that, hot on […]
This first week of 2008 in Publishing: Esteemed fellow agent and intellectual property lawyer Jonathan Lyons is going to be giving a Mediabistro course on negotiating book contracts, so if you are going to be in the New York area on March 27th, definitely, definitely check that out. Your future book contract will thank you. […]
Helping authors achieve their dreams
