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Marcus Dohle resigning as CEO of PRH (This week in books)

December 9, 2022 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Books! First up, the amazing organization We Need Diverse Books is hosting a holiday auction full of really great books and writing-related items to support Books Saves Lives, their initiative to fight book banning. I’m offering a query critique, which you can bid on here! The fallout from Penguin Random House’s failed acquisition […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: ChatGPT, Chelsea Banning, Derek Thompson, Marcus Dohle, OpenAI, Penguin Random House, We Need Diverse Books

WNDB launches new initiative to fight censorship (This week in books)

December 2, 2022 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Books! The fantastic organization We Need Diverse Books has launched a new initiative to combat censorship called Books Saves Lives. Claire Kirch at Publishers Weekly has some background on the new program, and I hope you’ll consider donating! Who was the world’s first author? Over 4,000 years ago, a priestess in what is […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Bob Dylan, Claire Kirch, Elizabeth Winkler, John Winn Miller, Nick Fuller Googins, Simon & Schuster, Susan Dennard, Tressie McMillan Cottom, We Need Diverse Books

PEN America releases comprehensive survey on race in publishing (This week in books)

October 21, 2022 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! PEN America released a wide-ranging survey of over 60 publishing employees on the paltry state of diversification and cultural change within the publishing industry when it comes to race, exploring “a host of historically underexplored financial and institutional factors that feed into underrepresentation across the industry,” and pointing to publishers’ “persistent obstacles […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Angie Hodapp, Booker Prize, Cormac McCarthy, David Moldawer, Gregory Berns, Ismail Muhammad, Jessica Faust, Kristen Lamb, Kristin Nelson, PEN America, Shehan Karunatilaka, Siegfried & Roy, We Need Diverse Books

A fraught Banned Books Week (This week in books)

September 23, 2022 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! It’s Banned Books Week amid arguably the most intense and concentrated conservative-led book banning efforts in a generation, which are disproportionately targeting LGBTQ and minority books. I’m re-upping We Need Diverse Books’ post on how to support diverse books during a ban. And yesterday, Representative Jamie Raskin and Senator Brian Schatz introduced […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Book Banning, Choose Your Own Adventure, Edward Packard, Jane Friedman, Jasmine Guillory, Leslie Jamison, Nicole Chung, We Need Diverse Books

Apply for WNDB’s mentorship program! (This week in books)

September 16, 2022 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! The fantastic organization We Need Diverse Books has launched its 2023 mentorship program, which pairs aspiring children’s book authors/illustrators with experienced mentors. Applications are free and open to anyone working on a diverse project; you don’t necessarily need to be from a diverse background. The deadline to apply is September 30. Apply, […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Chelsea Leu, Derek Thompson, Guy Gonzalez, Kate McKean, Kristen Lamb, Mike Shatzkin, National Book Awards, We Need Diverse Books

The PRH/S&S merger heads to court (This week in books)

July 29, 2022 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! We’re getting into the doldrums of summer, but I still have a few links to share with you this week. First up, there’s an auction this weekend to support two great organizations, We Need Diverse Books and NaNoWriMo! There are lots of great items to bid on, and I’m offering a thirty […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Amazon, Artificial Intelligence, Barack Obama, Charlie Warzel, Delia Owens, Man Booker, NaNoWriMo, Penguin Random House, Rebecca Stott, Simon & Schuster, We Need Diverse Books

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