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My Agent
On a rare day of high-wattage sunshine that momentarily denuded the stygian gloom that is London in late winter, I spent an interesting hour at my U.K. publishers—Random House—listening to the sales and marketing team strategizing for the imminent publication of my 11th novel, Five Days.
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Core Concerns
If the Common Core fails, what comes next?
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How Publishers Can Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Technology
Progress surrounds us. We land rovers on distant planets. Satellites and wires that we will never see or touch allow us to connect with anyone anywhere. And we can read great literature on our phones—or play with pigs in space.
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How Bookselling is Like Bartending
Reflections on a saloon-turned-bookstore's former life. Plus a cocktail recipe especially for booksellers.
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Stress-Testing a Hybrid Publishing Model
A few months ago, I set out to use the tools of self-publishing to release my new novel, The Thief of Auschwitz, as much as possible in the manner of a traditional publishing house.
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Tap-Dancing Authors
Where does one acquire the skills the successful author now needs: ragtime piano, snake handling, banjo picking, or Indian classical dance? This is a serious question for writers in an age when self-promotion has become all-important.
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How Do I Love Thee?
To say that my mother loved poetry does not do her justice.
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Waking the Dead
When novelists resurrect the dead for a work of fiction, research is critical, but it’s only a starting point. Breathing life into a historical figure requires an elusive second step.
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Reality Check: Does Market Research Work for Books?
It’s January 2011 and I’m in a school auditorium in Ardsley, N.Y., standing in the aisle in front of 60 seventh-graders, reading from I Represent Sean Rosen, my first attempt at writing a novel.
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All About the Book
Today marks one year since I quit my day job as a bookseller.
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