March 01, 2018 » MobyLives! Archives

Listen, if something looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck… well, it’s probably a duck. And by “duck” I mean “predatory lawyer.” On Tuesday,… Read more »

Authors

Waterstones appeal aims to raise £1m for Ukraine disaster fund — Tom Clayton
Returning an ebook after reading: is Amazon's return policy damaging to authors and publishers? — Nikki Griffiths
Fantasy author raises $25 million on Kickstarter to self-publish 4 new novels — Nikki Griffiths
Animal magic: zoo offers book bundles for World Book Day — Tom Clayton

Terry Goodkind judges his own book by its cover — and his verdict leaves fans fuming

Nikki Griffiths

New York Times bestselling author Terry Goodkind has sold over twenty-five million books worldwide. He is best known for his Sword of Truth series, and has a horde of fans, including a… Read more »

Wole Soyinka has been honored in Haiti

Michael Barron

The Nigerian writer and playwright Wole Soyinka has received a long list of honors in his long and storied career. For one thing, he was the first African writer to win the Nobel Prize… Read more »

A brief history of literary violence

This week, while international headlines have been preoccupied with exhaustive coverage of the man with red sauce on his face who has been charged with meatball theft, a more literary—and even… Read more »

Melville House Books

March 1, 2018

Harper Lee’s will is finally unsealed, and it raises more questions than anwers

Taylor Sperry

Terry Goodkind judges his own book by its cover — and his verdict leaves fans fuming

Nikki Griffiths

Wole Soyinka has been honored in Haiti

Michael Barron

A brief history of literary violence

Ian Dreiblatt