Blogger: Etta Wilson
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Young readers’ enthusiasm still thrills me. From the time most of them first discover they can decipher those symbols on the page and glean meaning from them, …
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Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
Weather: Hot and sticky
Young readers’ enthusiasm still thrills me. From the time most of them first discover they can decipher those symbols on the page and glean meaning from them, …
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Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
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Recently an author asked me how many poems she should include in a manuscript for a picture book of poetry. I had no idea how to …
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Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Holding down the fort in Santa Rosa while everyone else attends the Mount Hermon Christian Writer’s Conference.
“I don’t know why you kids bother to read fiction,” said Mrs. Klocki, my eighth-grade history teacher. “You should …
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Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
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I’m still thinking about all those junior high students in the “Letters to Authors” contest I was judging last week –I’ve blogged a bit about their …
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Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
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In Monday’s post on judging the “Letters to Authors” written by junior high students, a couple of other items caught my attention. One of those was the …
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Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
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Another impression from my recent foray into judging the writing of junior highers is the diminished racial identity and perception among young readers. Several entries were in …
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Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
Weather: Cold and wet
Wow, what good news to start a new year—adult fiction had positive sales last year. That’s according to Nielsen’s BookScan, which reports on 75% of the market. …
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Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
I reread teenage comfort novels over the Christmas season: Lenora Mattingly Weber’s Beany Malone series of some dozen books.
Originally published in the 1950s, Weber’s books told the …
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Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley, California Office
I returned from vacation only twenty hours ago and I’ve decided to extend my holiday frame of mind this week by talking about my favorite kind of travel — …
Best of the Blog 2009: Literary Pilgrimages— Prince Edward IslandRead More
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Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office, CA
What a fun week. There’s nothing like talking about all the things that could kill a writing career. Cheery little series, right? Okay, I’ll admit it, I employed a …
Best of the Blog 2009: Kiss of Death: The Renaissance WriterRead More