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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire #1) by George R. R. Martin
August 4, 2017

Friday News: Stories and Storytelling

JanetPublishing NewsAudible / Dream Daddy / Game of Thrones / George R.R. Martin / music video / podcast / Stan Lee / television adaptation / video games2 Comments

Book Purists, It’s Finally Time to Give Up and Start Watching Game of Thrones – It’s interesting to see that as GoT the television show chugs on, while the book series crawls toward a new book, we are seeing more arguments for the usurpation of the books by the show. Not ... more >

June 13, 2017

Tuesday News: recommending books, 50 years post-Loving, Outlander season 3, and Kondo comics

JanetPublishing Newsinterracial marriage / Loving v. Virginia / Manga / Marie Kondo / Outlander / recommendations / television adaptation2 Comments

Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover—Judge It by Its First Page  – I think we posted something about Recommendmeabook.com a while back, but I’m glad to see it’s still going (and hopefully the library of available books has increased). This is the kind of rabbit hole I could spend hours ... more >

May 8, 2017

Monday News: the state of fiction, is new GoT book obsolete?, “servicing the reader,” and female farmers

JanetPublishing Newsentertainment journalism / farming / fiction sales / Game of Thrones / George R.R. Martin / television adaptation / UK book market4 Comments

Fear not, the novel is not history – Literary agent Ian Mulcahy responds to the recent Telegraph article that laments an apparent drop in UK fiction sales and notes that books are competing with other forms of entertainment for people’s “limited leisure time.” Mulcahy argues that overall book sales trends show growth in sectors ... more >

July 30, 2015

Thursday News: celebrating Romance, restricting books, rewriting Little Women, and erasing women’s history

JanetPublishing Newsbest of list / book banning / dystopian / gender / Louisa May Alcott / museum / npr / television adaptation / women's history / YA11 Comments

Happy Ever After: 100 Swoon-Worthy Romances – An interesting list that at the very least reflects the difficulty in making any kind of “best of” list. If that’s what this is. We get back, pretty quickly, to the question of what makes a Romance novel effective, and what “good” or “best” ... more >

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