Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
I’ve been reading for fifty-one years. I love books. I’ve studied the Word of God for thirty-six years. I love Jesus. Both have inspired me and framed my …
Life
On Being Thankful: Helpers
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Writers tend to be introverts who spend long hours working alone, playing with their imaginary friends.
Some of us are extroverts who like the exchange of ideas, using …
On Being Thankful: Technology
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: www.booksandsuch.com (Writing from the Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.)
Ah, the wonders of technology. You’re sitting in front of your computer, perhaps in your pajamas, and I’m sitting in front of mine–fully dressed. …
On Being Thankful: Opportunity
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Beautiful Sonoma County, California
The news has been full of depressing stories lately, from natural disasters to fiscal errors to grim prognoses for the future. And the publishing world is no better.
It can get downright …
Sticky Situations: Bad Book Reviews
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Santa Rosa’s main office on a sunny day
The late Johnny Carson monologued once on the Tonight show about the pitfalls in responding to a woman holding a newborn baby. She wants you to admire it, …
Sticky Situations: Social Media Hacking
Blogger: The real Michelle Ule
Location: Not in London, try Santa Rosa, California
The first call came while I was making dinner on a hectic Saturday night with the adorable grandtoddlers and my ailing husband. “Michelle,” asked the wife of …
One Writer’s Journey: Editing
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Mount Hermon Christian Writers Conference
I knew I would have to be edited at some point, I just didn’t have any idea what that meant. My colleague Liz Johnson, who wrote A Star in the Night…
One Writer’s Journey: Actually Writing the Story
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: In Santa Rosa packing for Mount Hermon Christian Writers Conference
What excitement! A contract! I can write “novelist,” on my IRS 1040 for 2010! A dream has come true.
Or has it?
Don’t I have to …
One Writer’s Journey: Cake and Champagne!
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
I’ve been talking about being a writer my whole life. Even my elementary school-aged daughter, however, was on to my lack of publishing success when she asked ten …
One Writer’s Journey: Waiting
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
One of the most frustrating aspects of the publishing life is all the waiting around you have to do. Over on my personal blog, I recently wrote about …