By Siobhan O’Leary Liebestänze – Der Trailer BERLIN: Author Rainer Schmidt has taken the art of word of mouth to a whole new level. Instead of relying on a friends, family members and the staff of his publisher, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, to talk up his book, he took the concept literally and filmed 300 people in Germany — ranging from DJs …
Bonus Material: The Gold Standard of Lecture Agents
By Edward Nawotka Speaking can be a very profitable business for a writer. One novelist I spoke to — an author who had a book chosen for Oprah’s Book Club as well a couple of other top ten bestsellers — admitted to me that in some years he’s made far more money giving talks about his various books than writing …
Nigerian Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Straddling Continents
By Edward Nawotka TORONTO: “In the West we have constructed a narrative where African wars and poverty are meaningless, with no real political or historical context, which suggests misery is this atavistic thing,” says Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. “But what gets forgotten is at the same time all this is happening, people are falling in love, people are still …