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How Investment Banking Prepares You To Be a Writer
When I decided to walk away from a 14-year career in investment banking to write a novel, I figured I knew what to expect: a devastating pay cut and the possibility that I would fail to write a good book.
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A Call for Publishers, Libraries to Work Together
The way people read is changing.
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Summer Is for Readers
As soon as San Francisco delivers its first stretch of warm spring days (as it’s doing, gloriously, right now), I start itching for Memorial Day weekend, the kickoff of summer—or, as I think of it, Reading Season.
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Getting to Why
Writing a book is an act of self-revelation, whether or not you mean it to be, and then once the thing is published you face a second act: self-explanation.
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How to Find the Right Book 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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