These days, more and more books have accompanying Websites and smart authors even try to attract readers online before the book is even published.
Smart authors are blogging, self-publishing, booking themselves on radio, asking to speak at conferences where their audience lives, even helping to create viral videos and book trailers.The recession spurred this on, of course.
Its smart young author, Graham Moore, has done much more than fall into the fancy of Holmes's existence.
Jennifer Weiner's quest for literary respect Rebecca Mead | New Yorker | 13 January 2014 Smart, popular author says there is no shame in giving readers what they want.
"Political Animals: How Our Stone Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics" author Rick Shenkman believes Americans support the accord because of a "'projection bias' [that] leads us to believe others think like we do".
Simple: smart female authors who twig that their careers depend on writing solely for their own gender will instinctively narrow their subject matter.
Marc Andreessen: But what I've heard is in the old days really smart book authors used to put classified ads like in literary journals and say you know new book you know poetry for sale, $30, and then they would you know if they got like 500 orders they would actually write the book.
White men with big books and bylines get exalted while smart, witty authors like Emily Gould and my former student Cat Marnell get bashed for their ambition and acclaim.
