News and Notices from the Writing Trenches #131…

Calling all readers. (This is a reaction to a short and probably inaccurate NY Times article.) Nielsen and publishers’ reports indicate a declining American readership. Only about 50% of those polled plan to read at least one book in the next year. That’s a bit nebulous, but it confirms my suspicions: Americans are not reading much for pleasure anymore.

I don’t have accurate stats, but the reasons seem obvious: people are entertained or distracted by many other things now. Reading a novel tak...