For your weekend reading pleasure, here are our top stories of the week.

They included how The Great Gatsby changed Haruki Murakami’s life, a steamy book cover that generated strong sales and a viral bookstore sign (embedded above).

1. This Is a Bookshop Sign Goes Viral

2. The Cover That Launched a Thousand iBookstore Sales

3. Why Haruki Murakami Translated The Great Gatsby

4. Author Gives Fake Writing Assignments to Online Cheaters

5. Hyperbole and a Half Author Returns with Illustrated Essay on Depression

6. Free Sites To Promote Your Book

7. Successful query letters for literary agents

8. Bret Easton Ellis Addresses David Foster Wallace Comments

9. Tsundoku: Illustrated Definition of a Book Lover’s Problem

10. Best Writing Music of 2013, So Far

For your weekend reading pleasure, here are our top stories of the week.

They included how The Great Gatsby changed Haruki Murakami’s life, sales stats from self-published authors and the cover that sold thousands of eBooks (embedded above).

1. How Many Copies Make a Self-Published Bestseller?

2. The Cover That Launched a Thousand iBookstore Sales

3. Free Sites To Promote Your Book

4. Granta To Close Its New York City Office

5. Author Gives Fake Writing Assignments to Online Cheaters

6. Why Haruki Murakami Translated ‘The Great Gatsby’

7. Best Writing Music of 2013, So Far

8. Stephen King Wins National Magazine Award

9. Successful query letters for literary agents

10. Dennis Lehane Wins Edgar Award for Best Novel

For your weekend reading pleasure, here are our top stories of the week.

They included the most challenged books of the year, the worst novel ever written and William Shakespeare’s birthday flowchart (embedded above).

1. Free Samples of the Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2012

2. Did Amanda McKittrick Ros Write the Worst Novel Ever?

3. William Shakespeare’s Birthday Flowchart

4. Chuck Palahniuk: ‘Fight Club was a huge failure’

5. Free Sites To Promote Your Book

6. Successful query letters for fiction

7. Find a Writer’s Group in our New Directory

8. Why You Should Back Up Your Work Right Now

9. John Freeman To Leave Granta

10. How Indie Authors Can Work Together

For your weekend reading pleasure, here are our top stories of the week.

They included successful book promotion techniques, news of the long awaited Hyperbole and a Half book and some encouraging stats about American libraries (embedded above).

1. Book Promotion Strategies That Actually Worked

2. Hyperbole and a Half Book Coming In October

3. 17-Year-Old Writer Gets Three-Book Deal

4. Americans Still Love Libraries

5. No Budget Book Trailers on Twitter Vine

6. Free Sites To Promote Your Book

7. Scott Turow Blasts Amazon’s Purchase of Goodreads

8. 90 Camp NaNoWriMo Writing Tools in a Single Post

9. Best Quora Answer of the Year

10. 2013 Guggenheim Fellows Revealed

For your weekend reading pleasure, here are our top stories of the week.

They included successful book promotion techniques, no budget book trailers, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s call for writers for his new kind of TV show (embedded above).

1. Book Promotion Strategies That Actually Worked

2. Quentin Tarantino Movies as Paperback Books

3. Scott Turow Blasts Amazon’s Purchase of Goodreads

4. Library Marriage Proposal

5. No Budget Book Trailers on Twitter Vine

6. 90 Camp NaNoWriMo Writing Tools in a Single Post

7. Free Sites To Promote Your Book

8. 17-Year-Old Writer Gets Three Book Deal

9. Should Amazon Change Its Kindle Book Return Policy?

10. Joseph Gordon-Levitt Seeks Writers for TV Show

For your weekend reading pleasure, here are our top stories of the week.

They included Amazon’s move to acquire Goodreads, books that made us cry, and Quentin Tarantino movies as paperback books (embedded above).

1. Quentin Tarantino Movies as Paperback Books

2. Books That Made Us Cry

3. Amazon to buy Goodreads

4. Jim Carrey to Self-Publish a Children’s Book

5. Free Sites to Promote Your Book

6. BookBub Counts More Than One Million Subscribers

7. Science Fiction Books That Inspired Elon Musk

8. Library Marriage Proposal

9. Ally Condie Lands Deal for Two New Novels

10. Successful Query Letters for Literary Agents

For your weekend reading pleasure, here are our top stories of the week.

They included secrets from Dan Brown‘s upcoming book, books that made us cry, a publishing industry flowchart (embedded above).

1. Books That Made Us Cry

2.  How Many Copies Make a Literary Bestseller?

3. Using Your Kindle as a Print Bookmark

4. Publishing Industry Flowchart

5. Free Sites to Promote Your Book

6. What Writers Need To Know About Tumblr

7. Neil Gaiman Shares ‘Secret Freelancer Knowledge’

8. Cracking Dan Brown’s Inferno Code

9. Successful Query Letters for Literary Agents

10. Amazon Opens Literary Imprint Called ‘Little A’

For your weekend reading pleasure, here are our top stories of the week.

They include Barack Obama edits, free science fiction book samples and performance enhancing drugs for writers (cartoon embedded above via Grant Snider)

1. Performance Enhancing Drugs of the Literary World

2. President Barack Obama Edits

3. Self-Publishing Intelligence Report for February 2013

4. Free Samples of the Best Science Fiction of the Year

5. Free Sites to Promote Your Book

6. Game of Thrones Season Three Gets New Trailer

7. Successful Query Letters for Literary Agents

8. New Thomas Pynchon Novel Set in 2001

9. Free Samples of the Scariest Books of the Year

10. Amazon to Change Free eBook Policy for Associates

For your weekend reading pleasure, here are our top stories of the week.

They include Sylvia Day’s blockbuster sales record, blind dates with free books and book budgeting tips from a professional author.

1. Blind Date with a Free eBook

2. ‘The Bell Jar’ Cover Controversy Inspires Online Parodies

3. Harlem Shake at HarperCollins

4. Rosie Schaap: ‘Bars are great laboratories for storytelling’

5. Free Sites to Promote Your Book

6. Sylvia Day Sold Five Million Books in Seven Months

7. Guy Kawasaki on How To Budget for Your Book

8. Fantasy Series Charted by Increasing Page Count

9. Library Destroyed in Oreo Super Bowl Ad

10. How Writers & Readers Can Use Twitter’s Vine

For your weekend reading pleasure, here are our top stories of the week.

They include Stephen King’s 99-cent Kindle Single about gun control, free college-level writing courses and a YA superhero novel (embedded above).

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1. Nine free college level writing & literature courses online

2. YA Superhero Tale on Kickstarter

3. Free Sites to Promote Your eBook

4. Infographic Maps 4,860-Year Journey of the One Ring

5. Stephen King Explains Why He Pulled “Rage” Off the Shelf

6. Successful Query Letters for Literary Agents

7. How to Buy eBooks from an Indie Bookstore

8. What Writers Need To Know About Quora Blogs

9. Tor UK Now Accepts Direct Submissions from Writers

10. Reading Can Boost a Child’s IQ by More Than Six Points