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Author Talks: Onyi Nwabineli
Onyi Nwabineli’s debut novel is Someday, Maybe (Graydon House, October 4, 2022. Editor: Cat Clyne. Agent: Amy St Johnston, Aitken Alexander Associates). Born in Benin, Nigeria, Onyi Nwabineli grew up in Glasgow, the Isle of Man and Newcastle, and currently lives in London. She is the co-founder of Surviving Out Loud, a charity that offers support for survivors of sexual assault, and the founder of a writing retreat for Black womxn, called Black Pens. Someday, Maybe was Good Morning America’s Book Club pick for November. How did you find your agent? I did some extensive research using the amazing Twitter […]
Forthcoming: Patterson to Co-Author Unfinished Crichton Novel
James Patterson will complete an unfinished manuscript by Michael Crichton, who died in 2008, the WSJ reports. The as-yet-untitled novel was sold to Little, Brown by Shane Salerno for production company CrichtonSun and Robert Barnett for Patterson, and is about “a mega-eruption of Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano that can destroy not just the island but the entire world” due to a secret cache of chemical weapons. It’s scheduled to be published in 2024. Crichton’s widow (and chief executive of CrichtonSun) Sherri Crichton said the existing manuscript was over 100 pages. “Michael had been working on this book for years, it […]
Ask an Expert: Mary Rasenberger
Authors Guild CEO Mary Rasenberger Prior to joining the Authors Guild in November 2014, Mary practiced law for over 25 years in roles that spanned private practice, the government and corporate sector, as a recognized expert in copyright and media law. Could you briefly summarize why a writer should join Authors Guild, especially since so many of us struggle financially? The first reason to join is for the many benefits you receive for $135 a year, including free contract reviews and legal advice on a number of issues, all our free educational and other programs, our online forums where you […]
Trial Takeaways: Marketing and Publicity
At the antitrust trial, marketing and publicity expenditures were discussed mostly as a way of determining the level of support for Anticipated Top Selling Books (those acquired for $250,000+). While there are exceptions and surprises—the social media influencer whose posts promote the book for free; the modest acquisition that becomes an in-house favorite or hotly anticipated by readers—most publishers agreed that there was some correlation between advance level and promotional spend. Marketing Vs. Publicity In broad terms, marketing is paid for (i.e. advertising) and publicity is not, and they are usually handled by two separate departments. For marketing, in addition […]