Look, this is just an excellent post by Robinson Wells: Five Things I’ve Learned In The Last Year About Writing. I kept finding myself saying yes, yes, yes! Yes! I hate “networking” too. Icky, icky, icky. Like squishy underwear. Like buddying up to someone to get them into your network marketing downline. Like flies in soup.
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Okay, I’ve really got to get some writing done. But since I posted the idea of seeing which authors have the highest average checkouts per book, I now feel obligated to share it because some of those on the top 200 authors list drop off while others appear. So this one shows the authors getting the
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On Thursday I posted the top 200 YA novels of 2010. Today I’m happy to share the top 200 authors. You might be wondering: if we already have a top 200, why post this? Because yesterday was about individual titles. Today’s post is about authors. Some authors might not have any books that are checked out in huge
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USA Today just published their list of the top 100 bestsellers of 2010. Publishers Weekly and other places will soon follow. But sales don’t always capture the full picture. Some books may be purchased once and read once. Others are passed around until they’re ragged. Furthermore, many books sell well over a number of years but don’t get the volume
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A Ferocious Battle I just finished reading Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden. It is the most gripping account of any battle I have ever read. In 1992 a Somali warlord attacked and killed U.N. peacekeeping forces. As a result, the US put a $25,000 bounty on his head and attempted to arrest and try
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