August 5, 2017

This week: Rebecca Blunt is a real screenwriter, honest; a complaint has been filed against the Iowa Writers Workshop; has a Netflix adaptation of a YA novel increased suicides?; the next Star Wars has a new cowriter; the former FBI director has a book deal; a Drag Queen has been blocked from reading to children; and JK Rowling is the world’s highest-paid author. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week.

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