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Too Old to Write?!

January 18, 2018

by Steven Gaines
Bestselling author of Philistines at the Hedgerow and
now his memoir One of These Things First

Too Old to Write - A Blog Post by Steven Gaines

Last week, I was in a bookstore when I overheard three young men in their late-twenties making fun of the photo of Tom Wolfe on the back cover of his book Back to Blood. Sacrilege. Alas, the photo was a little silly. It was typical showman Wolfe, dressed in his trademark white suit and tie, a snazzy hat in hand. He’s 84 years old now, and he looked a bit more like a geezer in a costume instead of his usual debonair self. But who cares what Tom Wolfe looks like as long as it’s another great book? “I didn’t know he was still writing,” one of the guys sniffed. “He’s too old.” [Read more…]

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The Instant Bestsellerdom of Fire and Fury

January 10, 2018

Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff

Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff – The Phenomenon

Everybody in publishing is talking about the runaway-bestsellerdom-phenomenon of Fire and Fury, a one-year chronicle of Trump’s White House by Michael Wolff, a journalist who once worked for New York Magazine and went on to write unauthorized biographies of, among others, celebrities like Rupert Murdoch. The book on Trump was originally assigned a 150,000 copy print run, but advance word and scandalous sound bites created an unprecedented demand that quickly ate up that six-figure number and brought advance orders up to one million, including six-figure audio-book sales, not to mention perhaps several hundred thousand e-book purchases for readers who can’t wait until the new printing is available. [Read more…]

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Is Historical Fiction a form of Non-Fiction?

January 4, 2018

My assistant editor at Delphinium Books recently mentioned that despite the fact that she solicits non-fiction from agents that these agents end up submitting historical fiction. And that this keeps happening again and again. [Read more…]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Historical Fiction

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