Ed’s Perspective

Opinion pieces on book publishing from Edward Nawotka

New Writing from Nairobi: Storymoja’s “Story of the Week”

By Edward Nawotka Storymoja, the Nairobi-based publishing collective that we profiled last year, is running a weekly short story contest. Publishers looking for new African  … 

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Wen Huang’s “Coffin Keeper” in the Paris Review

By Edward Nawotka Our good friend and frequent contributor Wenguang Huang has published excerpt of his forthcoming memoir in the new issue of The Paris  … 

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Book Review: Justin Cronin’s “The Passage” is Scary Good

By Edward Nawotka Houston, we have an apocalypse… It starts when a Houston housewife in tennis whites pulls over her gleaming black Denali to give  … 

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#PubQT: Question Time with Ed Nawotka & Ron Hogan

By Edward Nawotka What do you want to know about the publishing industry? Are you looking for tips on what author marketing techniques really work?  … 

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Could Publishers Start Charging for Office Tours?

By Edward Nawotka Perusing the new issue of The Atlantic this morning I ran across a breezy article by Megan McArdle entitled “The Genius of  … 

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Stephen King Rejects iPad, Praises Kindle, Furnishes with Books

By Edward Nawotka Here’s something I don’t get to write that often: Stephen King agrees with me (sort of). It the April 2 issue of  … 

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12bn iPad Apps Totaling $8bn Predicted, How Many Will be Books?

By Edward Nawotka I haven’t pre-ordered an iPad yet. I’m still waiting to see if there are any takers for my Kindle II and the  … 

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