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I'm out of the office for the rest of the week for Thanksgiving, but wanted to dash off a quick napkin calculation related to a post I linked to on Friday. Some people were shocked by Lynn Viehl's post about how she only earned $24,517.36 after taxes and commission on her mass market NY Times ...
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After my recent post about the inevitability of e-books , I was surprised that there were so many misconceptions in the comments section about e-readers and e-books. For the record, I don't think everyone is going to or should or will like e-books and converting people is not what this post is ...
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Lots of links this week, so let's get to it. First up, there has been a huge controversy sparked by Harlquin's announcement that they would be forming a self-publishing arm called Harlequin Horizons . Victoria Strauss at Writer Beware wrote a very helpful initial roundup of the plan and ...
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Cormac McCarthy
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I'm completely obsessed with efficiency. I try to be as ruthlessly efficient as I possibly can, simply because I want to get as much done as possible. If there's a new system that saves me time, whether it's accepting e-queries, embracing Google docs so I can work anywhere, getting an e-reader ...
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I don't keep precise statistics on how many queries I receive each year, but it sure seems like there are more of them every week. I'm at 16,600+ e-mails sent this year, and the vast majority of those are responses to queries. Just about every stranger I meet who finds out what I do for a living ...
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When JACOB WONDERBAR went out to editors I really thought I was going to be completely cool about the submission process. I'm an agent! I've seen this before! I've sold projects that were out on submission for six months and even a year! How hard could it be? So. Being a Big Bad Experienced ...
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As longtime blog readers know, I have a bit of a reality TV habit. I still watch Survivor (I know), I was a habitual The Hills watcher before our messy breakup , and I would very much like to be friends with Phil Keoghan from the Amazing Race, who seems like the type of person who would tell ...
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Would you believe that there wasn't any earth-shattering publishing news this week in publishing? WalMart didn't slash the price of hardcovers to 99 cents, a new e-reader didn't debut, and we're all still here. Thank goodness there are still links: GalleyCat asked the provocative question Do ...
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Cormac McCarthy
blog.nathanbransford.com - 12 days ago
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Hi everyone, this was originally posted yesterday in
the Huffington Post , where I will be blogging...
from time to time. I thought I'd re-post it here. During my meetings with editors, agents, sales assistants, marketers, and other assorted publishing ...
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Moving the Needle
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With nook (yes, no definite article and uncapitalized. That's how you know it's cool!!) arriving on the scene, there are now quite a few e-readers to choose from, and even more questionably named devices arriving imminently. And though I tease the (whoops! Silly me, using the definite article) ...
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As I was brainstorming about what to blog about today I was thinking I'd discuss how if you just familiarize yourself with agent blogs and use your best judgment and act in good faith and send the best query you can you're going to be fine and there's no need to sweat the tiny details. And then ...
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One of the very most common questions I receive: how/whether to compare your book to another book or books in the query. I personally don't mind at all if you compare your book to another book or author or two to put me in the right frame of mind. This is completely optional, so don't feel as if ...
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What a week! It's not often you visit New York and arrive on Halloween, see marathoners running by on Sunday, have the Yankees win the World Series in the Bronx on Wednesday and eat way, way more pizza than should be humanly possible (oh wait, that's every time I come back to New York). I'll ...
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blog.nathanbransford.com - 18 days ago
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Come on, you know you want to try
it. Insert your own guess in the comments. I'm...
going with fallen space pirate apocalyptic ninja angels as the new vampire.
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It's Wednesday of my New York adventure/whirlwind and wow is it great to be here. New York! Must you be so awesome and tempt me back every time I visit you? Meanwhile, this topic has been percolating in some of the recent posts and we addressed a variation of it in the past, but I thought I'd ...
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It's always great to be back in the city that supposedly never sleeps, although by the end of every day I'm so exhausted I never seem to have any problem falling asleep. It's kind of amazing to visit the city in regular intervals and see what changes and what stays the same. New: tall shiny ...
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A heads up: I'll be in New York next week so blogging will be sporadic. But this week! People are still working their way through the week that shook publishing , with WalMart slashing prices and all kinds of e-readers debuting, and are digesting what it all means. First up, some people have ...
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blog.nathanbransford.com - 25 days ago
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First of all, the title of this post
is admittedly hyperbolic, which was necessitated by my desire...
to echo Michael Gerson's famous line about "the soft bigotry of low expectations," as delivered by our 43rd president . And such a hyperbolic title ...
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The Reverse Snobbery of Low Literary Aspirations
One of the very most difficult parts about the writing process is knowing whether you have "it," as in the talent that it takes in order to have a book published. This is one the biggest challenge in battling the " Am I Crazies ." How in the heck do you know if what you're writing is actually ...
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I have reached some sort of blog milestone in that I was halfway through writing a blog post about some writers focusing too much on the themes of their book in queries before I realized..... something felt a little familiar. Then I realized: I'd written the exact same post before. Right down to ...
