If classic literature had taken place over Zoom ...

Posted on 09/27/2020 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

It's only appropriate that we share a new comic on a Sunday, right? Writer and illustrator Kate Gavino has reimagined...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Classic literature, coronavirus / COVID-19, Just for fun, Literary Hub

Kris Rusch: The future may not be rosy, but it's still ours to claim

Posted on 09/27/2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

It’s fall, and school is in (some sort of) session — the conditions that, in a normal year, would inspire...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Motivational

Jane Friedman: The bar has been raised for online author events

Posted on 09/24/2020 at 03:29 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Six months into the COVID era, authors have accepted the necessity of — and often embraced — online events, versus...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Author events, coronavirus / COVID-19, Jane Friedman, Marketing

Candice Carty-Williams won't write COVID-19 into her novel's screenplay

Posted on 09/13/2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Candice Carty-Williams is working on adapting her novel Queenie into a screenplay. And in the meantime, as she watches other...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, The Guardian

Joanna Penn's lessons from nine years of author entrepreneurship

Posted on 09/12/2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Joanna Penn is marking nine years as an author entrepreneur this month. And yes, what a time to celebrate. When...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, Joanna Penn

Kris Rusch: What indie authors should do over the next few months

Posted on 09/11/2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Indie authors might feel a bit smug as they dive deep into Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s latest business musings post. In...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Publishing, The business of writing

T.S. Eliot estate sends a large donation to the Brontë Parsonage Museum

Posted on 09/08/2020 at 01:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The Brontë Parsonage Museum launched a crowdfunding campaign in July in hopes of closing a forecasted year-end deficit of £100,000...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Charity, Classic literature, coronavirus / COVID-19, Literary tourism, Poetry, The Guardian

The Washington Post's analysis of COVID-19 reading trends

Posted on 09/03/2020 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

If ever there were a definitive answer to the question “what have we been reading since the pandemic started?”, the...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, Reading

Kris Rusch: Predict the future, plan for it ... and keep revising

Posted on 08/31/2020 at 04:10 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Kris Rusch finally found the time to read a buzzed-about interview that Bill Gates did with Wired earlier this month....

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, The business of writing

Where to donate (or sell) your books during COVID-19

Posted on 08/31/2020 at 09:09 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

A Facebook commenter asked on one of our posts how one could clear out their old books, with so many...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: BookRiot, Charity, coronavirus / COVID-19