For Readers
Here are the literary birthdays to celebrate over the week of July 5, 2020. Hilary Mantel (July 6, 1952): Mantel has won the Man Booker Prize twice, for the first two books in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy: Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. Anna Quind...
NPR revealed its summer reading poll would be the best children’s books. And even better than the survey’s nostalgia factor were its rules: nominate five books, and an entire series counts as just one pick! Here’s what our Facebook...
Happy Fourth of July, no matter how you’re spending it! (We definitely hope it involves a book, however.) Instead of sharing our favorite news stories from the past week, today we'll share the best of the blog's Independence Day-related...
The New York Times’s bestseller list for combined print and ebook fiction is out for the week of July 11, 2020. 1. 28 Summers, by Elin Hilderbrand. 2. The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett. 3. Where The Crawdads Sing, by Delia...
For Authors
If you enjoyed last week’s comparison of book launches to running events, good news — Ruth Harris wants you to think about tennis now. Specifically, she’s issuing a warning about unforced errors — when a tennis player (or anyo...
In honor of the Fourth of July, we’re sharing advice on how to free yourself from imposter syndrome. Editor and writing coach Elizabeth Hartl offers five ways to reassure yourself that you’re absolutely qualified to go beyond your role as...
What are your fellow authors wondering nowadays? Joanna Penn recently hosted a Facebook Live Q&A in which she fielded the following questions (plus many, many more): When is it a good idea to have multiple pen names? Where should my audiobook app...
Yesterday, we shared Penny Sansevieri’s advice on how to market an older book. Now it’s time to swing in the opposite direction — how do you market a book that isn’t out yet? The answer is, you don’t. Well, you don&rsquo...
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