Nathan Bransford - The Forums

What's a bestseller? Is it a book that sells millions of copies, spawns movies, and video games? Is it a book that sells well its first year and every year thereafter? Is it a book sells 100,000 copies its first year but none five years later? Is it a book that is ignored, goes out of print, gets re...

Accusation of lazy merits lazy responses. I'm shocked. I hoped for one "I reference the work of brilliant people like _____________ (Frances Yates, Giorgio de Santillana, Joseph Campbell, Charles C. Mann, etc.) who inform my work." I am not a fan of Tolkien but he was an avid historian. If...

I'm not an avid fantasy reader outside of John Crowley; I read all of Tolkien/Lewis when I was a kid. I think Tolkien's great coup was specifically writing about tiny heroes (taken from German myths) at a time when his own country was collapsing in on itself. The British Empire fell apart and shrank...

only three...

1. Endless Love by Scott Spencer
2. The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald
3. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

I like Salinger.

Catcher is a very good first-person novel. Half of the 9 stories are great too.

He might be the first modern young adult author. No vampires or wizards; just smoking, cursing, chasing girls, and drinking.

I approve.

johndavid wrote: My mommy and daddy taught me a long time ago to say 'thank you' when someone does something nice for me.

John, I don't know an easy way to tell you this...but...you're adopted!!!

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

Orlando - Virginia Woolf

Blindness - Jose Saramago

Some years ago it became all the rage to support independent bookstores. Why hasn't a similar trend developed to support independent publishers? Independent publishers publish in all genres. My tastes run towards literary fiction (whatever that means), and in the recent past indies have produced a P...

It's also funny as hell. You're laughing at some deranged goings-on.

Short too; take ya about a day to read.

The hero of Cormac McCarthy's "Child of God" is a murderous, cross-dressing, necrophiliac.

Might help to read it.

An enemy would have to be relevant, so in this case, you're correct.

EM Forster kills characters quickly better than anyone.

Read the first bits of "The Longest Journey" and "Where Angels Fear to Tread" for reference.

Doubt that was the case with these authors.

Most of the books in this first go round by Odyssey are by dead authors. The writers' estates have lawyers, as does Wylie, and likely all vetted this.

Interesting to see how far RH is willing to piss off writers.

Random House is pissed:

Random House wrote:Last night, we sent a letter to Amazon disputing [the Wylie Agency's] rights to legally sell these titles, which are subject to active Random House publishing agreements. Upon assessing our business options, we will be taking appropriate action.

More here.

Wylie and Amazon partner to release his clients' ebooks.

http://www.odysseyeditions.com

Nice move; money in his authors' pockets, nothing for the publishing houses.