by Editor | Jul 11, 2016 | Articles, Book Marketing, News + Features
By Faith Aeriel Last month the first of James Patterson’s BookShots went on sale. BookShots are original books with fewer than 150 pages that cost less than five dollars. According to an article in the New York Times, Patterson “wants to sell books to people who have...
by Editor | Jul 8, 2016 | Articles, Book Publishing, News + Features
By Faith Aeriel Two hundred years after the bold release of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility “by a Lady,” women are still fighting sexism in the publishing industry. Despite the fact that countless women have achieved literary success rivaling that of the best male...
by Editor | Jul 8, 2016 | Interviews, Written
Narration is the foundation for the story. If the narrator has a strong voice, the rest of the story will typically follow suit. For the most part stories are narrated in first or third person, but sometimes departing from the familiar can be a huge benefit to the...
by Editor | Jul 7, 2016 | A Bookish Blog, Articles
Q. Why did you want to start reviewing for Manhattan Book Review? A. Since I am retired I have the time to review books and I also enjoy writing them. I like to feel that our local underfunded library in Amador County benefits from my book donations. Q. What is...
by Editor | Jul 6, 2016 | Articles, News + Features
Running a book review agency takes an incredible amount of work from all of the members of our small staff. Everyone is a wearer of many hats. And when disaster strikes – say, perhaps, our servers crashing and deleting all of our online records – we all have to step...
