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Music For Writers: Matt Haimovitz’s Cello Solos Go Into ‘Orbit’
Matt Haimovitz. Image: Steph Mackinnon Four Hours: ‘A Small Part Of The Repertoire’ You could do worse than play a 1710 cello made by the Venetian luthier Matteo Goffriller, but what Matt Haimover now...
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Scott Hawkins On Mount Char: Library Science And Angelology
Scott Hawkins. Image: Provided by the author ‘The Closest Thing…To His Usual Loin Cloth’ When Julian Pavia at Random House/Crown tells me he’s got something I might look at, I pay attention. He’s Andy...
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Mega-Wattpad Stardom: The Before And After Of Anna Todd
Anna Todd. Image: JD Witkowski ‘I Got Impatient’ After all, Anna Todd was not yet an author. “Never thought about it.” She certainly is one now. But she arrived at Wattpad, as do the great majority of...
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Fair Contracts For Authors: Don’t Let Go Of Your Copyright
iStockphoto / Ociacia Novelists Inc. Plans Authors Guild Session There’s news this week from the roughly 900-member Novelists Inc. (NINC) organization that the Authors Guild will present a special...
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Reader Analytics: Not All Authors Want To Know
iStockphoto / tinors Your Soul Vs. Data? When Jellybooks’ Andrew Rhomberg wrote at Digital Book World recently about publishers having a Fear of Data in an age of digital metrics, I thought that taking...
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Music For Writers: Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Light Air Of Restraint
Anna Thorvaldsdottir / Image: Hrafn Asgeirsson ‘To Perform The Audio Visually’ As you’ll know if you’ve been following our Music for Writers series here at Thought Catalog, we seem to be in a golden...
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Could Amazon Exclusivity Be Good For The Future Of eBooks?
iStockphoto / Gajus ‘The Absolute Best Experience For Readers’ Here’s an argument we don’t hear frequently for the Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) Select programs. I’m ensuring the best possible reader...
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Crowdfunding As An Antidote To Vanity Publishing: Colborne and Pubslush Join...
iStock / ruivalesousa ‘All The Backend Experience’ “The conversation was along the lines of ‘Pubslush has the marketing smarts that Colborne needs, and Colborne has all the backend experience that...
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Music For Writers: A Ravishing Fever Dream From Sarah Kirkland Snider And...
Sarah Kirkland Snider. Image: Willy Somma ‘Ghostly Chorus’ Childhood trauma is such alluring material for writers. It’s also fiendishly hard to render it with real impact. Kids’ frights tend to fall...
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This Week’s Nielsen’s Children’s Book Summit: Research Over Guesswork
iStockphoto / IPGutenbergUKLtd When Your Reader Is Not Your Customer Most kids aren’t choosing and buying their own books. Most of the time, parents are the ones at the cash register, right? Of course...
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AuthorEarnings: Brought To You By Us, Your Breathless Media
iStockphoto / wellphoto My Hype Is Better Than Your Hype Sometimes it seems that almost no one in the publishing industry can deliver a message without a sticky gloss of agenda-laden hype on it. The...
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The Authors Guild Survey’s Self-Selected Sample: More Fuel On The Fire?
iStockphoto / ChaosCollage First, The Bad News While some parts of the Authors Guild’s survey of writers’ income had been released earlier, the writer-advocacy organization has now produced its full...
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Age, Surveys, And Income: The Authors Guild’s View
iStockphoto / Type17 ‘Only One Piece Of The Puzzle’ Subsequent to our report on the Authors Guild’s release of results from its 2015 Member Survey, I’ve invited the Guild to provide some interpretation...
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Nobody Said YA Books Aren’t For Teens: Panel and Pushback At Nielsen’s Fine...
iStockphoto / Diego Cervo When The Medium’s Message Gets Rough It was an odd turnabout in the annual Nielsen Children’s Conference. Led by Kristen McLean—among the most respected people in the business...
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Setting A Compass: Those FutureBook Manifestos In A Storm-Tossed Industry
Credit: iStockphoto / Elena Belozorova Sinking Into The Pubslush Years into publishing’s encounter with the digital dynamic, it’s not as if anything is holding still, is it? A kind of heaving grace is...
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Music For Writers: Jodie Landau In Iceland, Romancing ‘You’
Jodie Landau. Image: Hörður Sveinsson ‘You’re The Choice I Make’ Let me offer you some artful goosebumps. This is a man at 23 speaking to you about what happens when he sings his music: All of my...
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‘Staggering’ Through Conference Season: Can Transatlantic Book Releases Still...
iStockphoto / Photo75 Delayed Publication Dates Hurt Sales The onslaught of the autumn conference and trade-show season in publishing has meant, at times, more travel than reporting. It’s a mad...
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Calling For Updated Writer-Payment Practices: The Authors Guild Joins The...
iStockphoto / Roberto David ‘By Forcing The Issue In Book Contracts’ The US Authors Guild is making common cause this month with its counterparts across the Atlantic, the Society of Authors. These are...
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Frankfurt Focus: YouTube, BookTube…PublisherTube?
At BookExpo America 2015, YouTube authors, a major draw. Image: Porter Anderson Wide-Eyed And Bookish In the United Kingdom, Zoe Sugg—known as Zoella to her huge fan base—has pulled off the kind of...
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Gender Bias: How Much Are You Aware Of Yours?
iStockphoto / XiXinXing Just When You Think You’re Enlightened Now backpedaling in an almost comic retreat, officials of South By Southwest (SXSW) triggered a storm of controversy when they canceled...
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