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So, as it turns out, I wasn’t so much able to shoot arrows of truth as I was able to receive them. Today is my last day as an intern at Beaufort Books and I have learned an indescribable amount. There were many unexpected happenings, like the fact that the aforementioned arrows turned out to …Read More.

Hi, folks! So if you’ve been enjoying this blog, you just might enjoy our new Tumblr: It will have all the blog posts we post here, in addition to book giveaways, info about our author events, and any fun book-related things we feel like reblogging. You can check us out at beaufortbooks.tumblr.com, and if you …Read More.

Salutations! I’m Caroline, a new intern for Beaufort Books. I’ve been here for a couple of weeks now, and I’ve been learning so much. I’ve been working a little more on the editorial side of things, while “Behind the CrossBEAU” Kerry has been learning more about marketing, but we’ve had a ton of overlap. A …Read More.

I’m Kerry, a new intern at Beaufort, and would like to start by regretfully acknowledging that I am no Legolas or Katniss. Though the only time I have ever shot an arrow was from my brother’s miniature archery set when I was young, I would love to be an honorary archer by shooting you some …Read More.

Here we are once again with the question of “What makes good literature?” Stanley Fish of the New York Times recently wrote, in essence, that a book whose intrigue relies on suspense alone has little merit (Somewhat ironically: see the concluding paragraph of his Op-Ed). This was in response to criticisms of his column on The Hunger …Read More.

So, you’re reading a book—a narrative—and, just as when you watch a movie or see a play, you hope to feel something. We expect good art to drive us to some catharsis. I see it as a given that we read in order to feel, to relate to a character or an experience and grow …Read More.

It isn’t really worth repeating, because most already agree: Standardized tests are inadequate judges of a student’s actual skills and intellect. The news has been buzzing about Pearson’s English Language Arts test and their nearly unintelligible insertion of a mangled Daniel Pinkwater excerpt. You can see it for yourself here. This nonsensical story (characterized as such …Read More.

  “Hi, um, tonight is World Book Night, and I wanted you to have this.”   In my first post to the Beaufort blog, I promoted World Book Night, an event I had just found out about. Here is just what I said: “I want everyone to love reading as much as I do! So, …Read More.

Today, I came across Joel Stein’s op-ed piece in The New York Times about how adults should stray from reading Young Adult fiction such as Twilight, The Hunger Games, Harry Potter. ” Let’s have the decency to let tween girls have their own little world of vampires and child wizards and games you play when …Read More.

Ah, publishing in the digital age! So many possibilities! So many complications! The notion of “digital rights” for a book, believe it or not, has been around for about 20 years, even in the very early days of the personal computer (My family got our first computer in 1997, I think, possibility a little later …Read More.

For many, reading time is sacred. You make the decision to pick up a book for an hour, or a few, and live in another world for a while. Your surroundings become a blur and you fade into the book, not really seeing the words on the page anymore but building the scenes in your …Read More.

The Tournament of Books kicked off today! This is an annual “competition” that The Morning News holds every year where 16 books face off leading up to the announcement of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.  It’s been a great motivating list to read books that people both in and outside of the publishing industry have …Read More.