Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa CA
What makes a movie interesting? How does it keep your attention to the end?
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” a strange story about a boy who was …
Fiction
Movie Mania
Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Dim the lights and grab some popcorn! We’re going to the movies.
This week, I’m going to talk about movie techniques and how they relate to writing. Each …
The Writing Day
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office, CA
Weather: Sunny and warm
Okay, we’ve been talking about writers’ habits, spaces and rituals. Let’s get down to the nitty gritty. What does the real writer’s day look like? …
The Work of Writing
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office, CA
Weather: sunny, 49º
Nothing seems harder than actually getting down to the work of writing. Writers are constantly alternating between feeling waves of guilt for not meeting writing goals …
Reality Check
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Office, Nashville
Weather: 58 and dreary–just like Santa Rosa
I’m down to the nitty gritty–how do I, as an agent representing authors who write for children and tweens, evaluate manuscripts in the current …
Personal Book Selection
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Flying cross country
Weather: Breezy
We may be fairly agreed on what constitutes appropriate reading for children of various age levels, but the whole business of what we adults find offensive is another matter. It probably …
MARKETING MATTERS: Networking for Newbies
Blogger: Kathleen Y’Barbo
Location: PR Office, The Woodlands, Tex.
Are you Twittering yet? I certainly hope so!
That means you’ve dipped your toe into the pool of social networking. Bravo! Now what? Send your Twitters out where they will reach …
The Proof’s in the Books
Before we get to the much-anticipated reading list, I want to thank you all for participating this week! I’ve had so much fun.
By the way, I’m teaching a workshop on this subject (entitled “When Your Audience Is the ‘Hoodie …
Through the Eyes of a Twentysomething
Continuing our discussion about what makes a twentysomething reader tic, let’s dissect an imaginary book using a twentysomething mindset. I want to show you how the principles we’ve learned so far about twentysomethings would apply in this case. I wrote …
How Twentysomethings Think and Feel
Because the 20s are years of so many transitions, each twentysomething is at a different place in life. (This makes twentysomethings easy-to-write protagonists!) A few things remain consistent about our generation, however, and these patterns of thought and behavior can …