Nathan Bransford: Literary Agent and Author
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Nathan Bransford
San Francisco, CA
United States

I'm a literary agent with the San Francisco office of Curtis Brown Ltd. and the author of JACOB WONDERBAR AND THE COSMIC SPACE KAPOW, which will be published by Dial Books for Young Readers in 2011.

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Jul
30
2010

This Week in Publishing

This Week! In Publishing! This Friday I am actually out of town and thus may have missed some news from the last few days. Please feel free to fill in any links that I may have missed! (and please fo...

Jul
29
2010

Can I Get a Ruling: How Do We Feel About Acknowledgments Sections?

This topic came up in the Forum recently, and I'm curious how The Readers At Large are thinking on the subject. What do we think about thanking the Academy? Do you like acknowledgment sections? Feel ...

Jul
28
2010

You Tell Me: Who is the Greatest Villain in Fiction?

Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the greatest villain of them all? Iago? Ahab? Fagin? Voldemort? Sauron? Villains are just plain scarier when they only have one name, aren't they? Who's you...

Jul
27
2010

The One Question Writers Should Never Ask Themselves When Reading

Over the course of writing and maintaining this blog, I've found that there is one sure-fire way a commenter can set my teeth on edge and make me bring out the snide comment gun. (Well, I suppose it w...

Jul
26
2010

Page Critique Monday: My Critique

Thanks again to darylsedore for bravely offering the page. I think this is an interesting high concept beginning, and the page is able to build a suspenseful tone, which I enjoyed. The "bring hammer" ...

Jul
26
2010

Page Critique Monday

Time for Monday's page critique! Refresher on how this works: - If you're interested in submitting a page for a future critique, enter it in this thread in the Forums (and be sure and check out the d...