Related Articles

• 

  DBW Insights: Gretchen Rubin

  2053 readers In this exclusive interview, Gretchen Rubin, the author of The Happiness Project, discusses author platform and branding, managing social media, and discoverability. From the interview: One of the questions that all authors right now are facing is: to what degree should they feel responsible for getting their books out there and promoting their books. For some authors,

• 

  DBW Insights: Maureen Johnson, Author of The Name of the Star

  1480 readers By Rich Fahle, Founder, Astral Road Media | @richfahle In this exclusive interview, Maureen Johnson, bestselling author of the just published The Name of the Star, discusses researching her novels, twitter, and author branding. From the interview: I hate the idea of author branding. I understand it as a concept. I understand that if you present, for example,

• 

  Author Kathy Sierra Thinks Reading Experience Should Kick Ass

  861 readersMaking readers feel awesome about themselves is the best way to build passionate readers, said author Kathy Sierra in her keynote talk, “Creating Passionate Users,” at the O’Reilly “Tools of Change” conference yesterday. In the talk, Sierra s...

• 

  DBW Insights: Susan Orlean, Author of Rin Tin Tin: the Life and the Legend, Part 2

  1683 readers By Rich Fahle, Founder, Astral Road Media | @richfahle In this exclusive interview with Susan Orlean, staff writer at The New Yorker and author of the just published Rin Tin Tin: the Life and the Legend, discusses short form non-fiction, curation, and author flexibility. From the interview: I think all of these new forums, such as the Atavist,

• 

  DBW Insights: Susan Orlean, Author of Rin Tin Tin: the Life and the Legend, Part 2

  1647 readers By Rich Fahle, Founder, Astral Road Media | @richfahle In this exclusive interview with Susan Orlean, staff writer at The New Yorker and author of the just published Rin Tin Tin: the Life and the Legend, discusses short form non-fiction, curation, and author flexibility. From the interview: I think all of these new forums, such as the Atavist,

• 

  Guccifer Hacks Candace Bushnell

  358 readersCandace Bushnell, creator of Sex and the City, had her email account hacked yesterday.The hacker Guccifer (who exposed George W. Bush – the painter) broke in and posted the first 50 pages of the book.  Max Read at Gawker broke the story and has links to the pages plus emails between the author and her

• 

  DBW Insights: Rick Richter

  1963 readers"I think that as the curators emerge, you're going to find apps becoming more and more meaningful." Rick Richter

• 

  Sex Counselors Release eBook

  1241 readersThe California Center for Healing’s founders Drs. Bill and Ginger Bercaw have a new eBook out for couples looking to spice up their love lives. From the Living Room to the Bedroom: Six Steps to Lasting Intimacy and Sexual Abundance, is all about merg...

• 

  The day digital died, by Evan Schnittman

  1694 readers It was a seemingly innocuous situation… I was sitting in a room filled with publishing types: book publishers, librarians, agents, industry press, metadata specialists, and consultants of varying shapes and sizes. We were there in an advisory role to one of the digital publishing conferences. Things started innocently enough – the usual

• 

  Is the Future of Fiction an “Annotated Online Chat”?

  1589 readersBy Edward Nawotka, Editor-in-Chief In today’s feature story Chris Rechtsteiner asserts that the future of fiction is “far more apt to look like an annotated chat conversation than anything else. Why? Because the conversation can be played out by the authors at their convenience and then be made available for feedback, comments, insight, etc. in near