For Readers
The Atlantic recently took a look at what factors set the stage for someone to become a lifelong reader. Unsurprisingly, demographics play a role, but parents or guardians hold huge sway as well. See how your own upbringing corresponds with the prime...
The New York Times’s bestseller list for combined print and ebook fiction is out for the week of September 29, 2019. 1. The Institute, by Stephen King. 2. The Testaments, by Margaret Atwood. 3. Where The Crawdads Sing, by De...
A newly published book has the ultimate cliffhanger ending: its author passed away over a decade ago. Francoise Sagan, author of Bonjour Tristesse, died in 2004, having written two hundred pages of a book titled Four Corners of the Heart. Her son Den...
Lest anyone think we’re biased toward Kindles, we’ll share an update on Kobo ereader availability. The Digital Reader reports that Kobo’s Libra H2O can now be purchased at Walmart. The model is available in white or black and costs...
For Authors
Kristine Kathryn Rusch has been explaining, for literally months, why you need to strategically license your intellectual property. And now, today, we’ve come to the lesson on the actual deal memo. Rusch breaks down each part of a licensing dea...
You’ve read countless books in your life, but chances are that if you were asked to list the typical order of a book’s front matter, you’d freeze and draw a blank. That at least has been the experience of Fiona Raven and Glenna Coll...
We were recently advised, when it comes to your to-do list, to handle the boulders first versus the pebbles. In other words, take on the big tasks before you wear yourself out with all the little ones. (And in still more words ... quit procrastinatin...
Earlier this month, Jane Friedman shared a guest post reminding potential (or current) memoirists to keep their focus tight. The failure to do that — and the tendency to cross over into autobiography — is among the seven common mistakes f...
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