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Why Fifty Shades of Grey is Popular

November 12, 2012 by Nathan Bransford 85 Comments

Yep. I read it. I have a series of reactions to Fifty Shades of Grey: 1) This book is popular.  I mean, really, really popular. It is bigger than Harry Potter popular in the UK, it was responsible for 20% of all book sales in the spring, it sold 25 million copies in 4 months; […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Culture, Fifty Shades of Grey, Twilight

This Week in Books 8/2/12

August 3, 2012 by Nathan Bransford 10 Comments

Relatively quiet weeks in books as the dog days of summer are here, but I spotted a few good ones for you. As always, please share the best ones you saw in the comments section! Colson Whitehead, who is spectacular on Twitter, is equally spectacular in the pages of the NY Times as he has […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Fifty Shades of Grey, Harry Potter, literary agents, This Week in Books, Twilight

Kids Books Are Not Just For Kids Anymore

June 2, 2011 by Nathan Bransford 70 Comments

Hansel und Gretel One of the interesting aspects of watching my pal/novel Jacob Wonderbar enter the world has been the reaction of the people who reside outside of the book blogosphere. I’ve been living/virtual-breathing in the book world for so long I forget there are adults out there who don’t make a habit of reading […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: book recommendations, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, Jacob Wonderbar, John Green, Suzanne Collins, Twilight, Young Adult Literature

Who Would Be Your Literary BFF?

October 16, 2010 by Nathan Bransford 60 Comments

By: Rachel Bertsche Can you smell the sharpened pencils in the air? It’s the delicious scent of another school year underway. Kids are cracking open new books and diving into the likes of Great Expectations or The Things They Carried or Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry. Though my school days are behind me, as […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: book recommendations, guest blog, Harry Potter, Twilight

Professionalism (It’s not what you think it is)

October 14, 2010 by Nathan Bransford 80 Comments

By: Hannah Moskowitz This post has nothing to do with writing and absolutely everything to do with being a writer. The stereotype of a writer–the middle-aged man pounding feverishly at a typewriter, cigarette in his mouth, sending hard-copy manuscripts to his agent and protesting the change of every word–has yet to catch up with the […]

Filed Under: The Writing Life Tagged With: Dan Brown, guest blog, How to Promote a Book, Life of a Writer, Lord of the Rings, Suzanne Collins, Twilight, Twitter

This Week in Publishing 10/8/10

October 8, 2010 by Nathan Bransford 9 Comments

Tento týden v publikování… First off, thank you so much to everyone who entered the Guest Blog Contest Festival Event! There were actually so many spectacular entries that I decided to expand the number of contest winning slots. That’s right folks, this blog is going seven days a week. Well. At least until I get […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Harry Potter, Jonathan Franzen, Malcolm Gladwell, Publishing Economics, This Week in Publishing, Twilight

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