Are we finally coming out of the new adult → YA → adult pipeline?
Here are five things we’ve learned from the mistakes of the past five years.| Misshelved
Here are five things we’ve learned from the mistakes of the past five years.| Misshelved
A peek at how one bookselling board is discussing current world events.| Misshelved
A self-care and advocacy list, now with a bookish flavor.| Misshelved
Here are literacy-focused and bookish advocacy action items you can do right now.| Misshelved
More like NaNoWriNO, am I right? … NaNOWriMo? Maybe a robot would make a better subtitle.| Misshelved
Just a rando on the internet disagreeing with a man awarded the National Humanities Medal. What do I know?| Misshelved
Despite my best efforts, I am cursed by the book world’s algorithm. How do I break it?| Misshelved
It’s October, and in the retail world, this means it’s basically Christmas, which means it’s almost 2024—and 2023 was a weird year for publishing.| Misshelved
Close your eyes and picture a forum.| Misshelved
We live in a world where people steal fan fiction written by other people, scrub the author’s name, and upload the stories to Amazon.| Misshelved
I am a bookseller, but I often joke that I do not know how to read—and in this era of burnout and pandemic and an overwhelming amount of media, I certainly don’t read as much as I used to.| Misshelved
It is December in New York, and it is the best time to be a bookseller.| Misshelved
In my scrapbook is a small sticker I made for myself.| Misshelved
I began this essay because I wanted to explore how and why the young adult book publishing industry in the United States now seems to be primarily targeting adult readers, rather than teens.| Misshelved
Since the spring of 2020, it often seems like the whole world has been gathering exclusively online, as in-person parties, happy hours and other celebrations went digital—and author events changed too.| Misshelved
When you work in a bookstore, one of the things customers ask about most frequently are bestsellers.| Misshelved
When you attend a bookselling conference, you’ll notice a lot of rhetoric tossed around about luck and passion.| Misshelved
At the beginning of the month, I drafted most of an essay on the state of young adult publishing and how we failed its actual target demographic.| misshelved.substack.com
Award-winning bookseller Nicole Brinkley dives deep into the book world. Click to read Misshelved, by Nicole Brinkley, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.| misshelved.substack.com
Publishing obsesses over Goodreads, but does Goodreads actually sell books?| misshelved.substack.com
