• Read the first chapter of . Or listen to Reese Witherspoon read it (scroll down to the link). Mike Shatzkin thinks the publishers are .
Over her breakfast coffee, she watched the last of Georgia’s hills recede and the red earth appear, and with it tin-roofed houses set in the middle of swept yards, and in the yards the inevitable verbena grew, surrounded by whitewashed tires.
• Meanwhile, surrounds Harper Lee’s upcoming release. The interwebs will be flooded with news about it now through its 14 July publication date. We won’t buck the trend.
• Did Ted Cruz try to ? HarperCollins says no.
• A , or rather an old one that never got published, has been published. For die-hard fans only, we think.
• The comma gets its . A woman got out of a parking ticket because a village ordinance contained a proofreading error. Grammar nerds (like us) are having a field day.
• Amazon’s if it thinks the reviewer and author know each other. Next time we pass each other on the street, look the other way. Here’s a on all of it.
• The Authors Guild advocates for a . No argument here.
We maintain that a 50-50 split in e-book profits is fair because the traditional author-publisher relationship is essentially a joint venture. The author writes the book, and by any fair measure the author’s efforts represent most of the labor invested and most of the resulting value.
• How publishers what to publish: the P&L.
• A by J.A. Konrath on the new Kindle Unlimited compensation structure, as only J.A. Konrath can Q&A it.
• 11 about Ernest Hemingway. Some of these are verifiable, for example the stuff quoted from A Moveable Feast. But, he was a KGB agent? We’re not so sure about that.
• Are “one of the worst things an author can do?”
• Finally, in the “Oh yeah? Says who?” department, on your MFA.
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