This week, we host our first guest speaker in the Davies Forum: Nathan Bransford, author, blogger, and former literary agent. Check out his blog on the list of useful links on the side of this page.
In fact, that link should get its own box as not just a useful link, but as the most supremely useful link for aspiring writers, publishing industry watchers (or watchers and waiters, as they may more aptly be), and book people in general.
Since Nathan will be talking about what new technologies mean for the future of books and authors, take a look at some of his posts about the possibilities of self-publishing in particular.
Another interesting essay for you to read in the light of last week's presentations/tomorrow's papers (book memoirs): this piece from the Wall Street Journal gives us a nice sense of what books mean to us in the context of our everyday lives and spaces. Also see the website Library Thing listed on the links on the side for ideas.
If you had all the books you ever had in one place (I am assuming you don't, since I don't either, separated as mine are by one bay, one ocean, insufficient Ikea shelves and the like), what would it say about you? Or what would it say to you about the world?
Addendum: a nice, brief essay on the form of the book in NYT, here.
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