Blogger: Rachel Kent
If you are shopping today, or planning to do any Christmas shopping this year, please consider adding a book or two to your gift list. I’m sure someone on your list loves reading and there are so …
Christmas
Christmas Memories in the Making
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
I posted this blog in 2010, commemorating the sweetest moments of our family’s Christmas celebration that year. But,well, that was five years ago.
I actually had forgotten about the joys of that particular Christmas. Revisiting them …
Take a Break
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
A couple years ago, our colleague, Rachelle Gardner, sent us a fascinating article by Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries in the Harvard Business Review. It has become a favorite. In it he makes the case for …
The Gift of Secret Giving
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
It’s Christmastime and I can’t help but think about the frenzy of getting gifts for those we love. And even for those we feel we “must” gift. We often ask many questions in order to get just …
Deck the Halls
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
I was poking around in old blog posts and saw this one from six years ago. You know what’s funny– almost nothing has changed. This is still the way I deck the halls– even though we’ve added …
Good Girl Books
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Our Books & Such offices are closed for Christmas Break. We decided to choose some oldies but goodies to re-blog. This is a blog post I wrote several years ago but I still think about some of …
Favorite Christmas Book to Read with a Child
Blogger: Rachel Kent
My daughter and I are always reading together and this time of year she has two favorite Christmas books. Honestly, both are a little young for her now, but sometimes by the end of a very long …
Gifting at Christmas
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
I addressed this a few years ago but the question that often comes up this time of year is this: What is appropriate in the way of gifts for agents, editors and those on your publishing team?…
Rocky Road
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
I’m working from the East Coast this week so I decided to pull up one of my classic blog posts just in time for you to do some Christmas cooking. A few years back I shared about …
How to Write Awesome Acknowledgments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
I love to read book acknowledgment pages. I feel as if I’m peeking into the Who’s Who in the creation of the work. But the acknowledgments I like best are those in which the author shows …