Nathan Bransford | Writing, Book Editing, Publishing
Helping authors achieve their dreams
This year! Books! The word ninjas over at Merriam-Webster really nailed the word of the year for 2025: slop. Slop is on my mind so much lately. Not just for the uncannily creepy images and videos that have started filling my social media feeds, but for the way it’s affecting my perception of what’s real. […]
This week! Books! I’m still catching up after being out of town for a bit, so just links this week, but I’m hoping to return to a normal blogging cadence next week! Army of Bots: Deeper Into the Vortex of Nigerian Marketing Scams – Victoria Strauss, Writer Beware Book Bans Continue to Threaten the Wellbeing […]
This week! Books! I’m back, and luckily nothing at all happened while I was away (okay everything happened while I was away). Lots and lots of links this week! Let’s get to it. 2026 We Need Diverse Books Mentorship Program Application – Applications are now open for We Need Diverse Books’ terrific mentorship program for […]
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! 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! Another week, another celebrity children’s book announcement, this time actor Keira Knightley writing a book called I Love You Just the Same for Simon & Schuster UK. Maybe it was the anodyne title, maybe it was a “last straw” that had been building, but for some reason this time around it struck […]
Helping authors achieve their dreams
