Have you found any particular books to be superior in one language over the other?
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Whoever the thief is, he or she knows how publishing works, and has mapped out the connections between authors and the constellation of agents, publishers and editors who would have access to their material. This person understands the path a manuscript takes from submission to publication, and is at ease with insider lingo like “ms” instead of manuscript.
Emails are tailored so they appear to be sent by a particular agent writing to one of her authors, or an editor contacting a scout, with tiny changes made to the domain names — like penguinrandornhouse.com instead of penguinrandomhouse.com, an “rn” in place of an “m” — that are masked, and so only visible when the target hits reply.
“They know who our clients are, they know how we interact with our clients, where sub-agents fit in and where primary agents fit in,” said Catherine Eccles, owner of a literary scouting agency in London. “They’re very, very good.”
One of the leading theories in the publishing world, which is rife with speculation over the thefts, is that they are the work of someone in the literary scouting community. Scouts arrange for the sale of book rights to international publishers as well as to film and television producers, and what their clients pay for is early access to information — so an unedited manuscript, for example, would have value to them.
“The pattern it resembles is what I do,” said Kelly Farber, a literary scout, “which is I get everything.”
That’s all very fascinating, and I can speculate easily on for-profit endgames if they were targeting big-time authors, but this is really strange.
“If this were just targeting the John Grishams and the J.K. Rowlings, you could come up with a different theory,” said Dan Strone, chief executive of the literary agency Trident Media Group. “But when you’re talking about the value of a debut author, there is literally no immediate value in putting it on the internet, because nobody has heard of this person.”
Not sure what the RNC will do with all that extra cash that would have gone toward bulk orders
I’ve had this book sitting on a shelf for months and finally got through it. I had virtually the exact same reaction too. Really liked it but I hated the ending
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What happens when horror authors try to help Aranofsky write his next movie?
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I guess this could easily go in the movies or the Stephen King thread but idk. This account posts fan fiction like nothing else 
I read the dystopian Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. It’s set in the early 2020s, she wrote it in 1993, and while she saw where we’re headed, it was some comfort to think “Well, at least it’s not that bad yet.”
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When I read the first sentence of your post I thought you were the fastest reader in the world
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This one trick can turn anyone into a speed reader. In fact you can start and finish as many books as you like in the next five seconds.
I added this to my liar because I saw it on goodreads list, I’ll probably still give it a go sometime even though it’s not my usual kind of read.
I’m currently reading the midnight library, halfway through and I’m not sure what to think
Piranesi was good if you want a short sci-fi sort of read.
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I’m reading the sequel, Parable of the Talents. Again, written in the mid-90s, this is set in 2032 or so, and there is a charismatic Texan senator running for President that uses the phrase “Help us to make America great again.” The narrator writes “He’s had notable success with this carrot-and-stick approach. Join us and thrive, or whatever happens to you as a result of your own sinful stubbornness is your problem.”
Edited to add, the senator also “condemns the burnings, but does so in such mild language that his people are free to hear what they want to hear.”
I finished the midnight library, was a really quick read. Not sure how I feel about it, there were a few ways that the author handled the “trying out of new lives” that I thought took away from what it coulda been and the ending was basically preordained from the start but it did give me some things to think about.
Sounds like kind of a mixed review but I went ahead and put it on hold at my library. Should have it in about three months lol.
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Finished book one of the inheritance series
Thanks for that recommendation as well.
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