Nathan Bransford | Writing, Book Editing, Publishing
Helping authors achieve their dreams
This week! Books! First up, a happy plug. It’s always so exciting to see a book I’ve worked on in manuscript form come to fruition, let alone when it becomes a freakin’ Jenna Hager Bush Today Show book club selection. Congrats to Heather O’Neill and The Irish Goodbye, which is on sale next Tuesday! So […]
This week! Books! Lots of links saved up over the past few weeks, let’s get to them! Anthropic Scores a Landmark AI Copyright Win—but Will Face Trial Over Piracy Claims – Kate Knibbs, Wired – In a huge ruling on A.I. and copyright, a federal judge agreed that using books to train A.I. is fair […]
This week! Books! The Trump tariffs are tanking your 401k at the moment (if you’re lucky enough to have one), but how will they affect publishers, whose books are often printed in Asia and Europe? According to Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg at the WSJ, they don’t really know either. The U.S. Copyright Office, apparently one of […]
This week! Books! TikTok has been a somewhat unlikely boon to the publishing industry via its books-obsessed crowd, nicknamed BookTok, which has propelled authors like Colleen Hoover and Emily Henry to mega-bestsellerdom. So it likely sent a chill through the business that a federal court unanimously upheld a law that requires its parent company, ByteDance, […]
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! First up, a few exciting new site-related things this week: I launched online classes! I recorded four online classes on navigating the traditional publishing process, with exclusive downloadable resources. Until June 8, blog readers and newsletter subscribers get a 15% discount off of the “How to Get a Book Deal” bundle using […]
Helping authors achieve their dreams
