Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Labor Day seems like the perfect day to ponder what your first job taught you. For me, my first job was–wait for it–bun-dabber at an A&W Root Beer Stand. I don’t recall if that was my …
Life
The Work/Family Balance: Getting rid of the guilt
Blogger: Rachel Kent I don’t know about you, but I spend a lot of time feeling guilty. I’m either not working hard enough, or I’m not a good wife, or housekeeper, or mother, or dog owner. I’m actually a terrible …
Is Your Agent Too Busy?
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
I had a phone meeting yesterday with a client. She said, “I hate to bother you. You seem so busy.” Hmmmm. A few weeks ago my brother called me up short on the same subject. He said …
Agents Understand Rejection
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Last week I wrote about what to do when your query letter is rejected by agents. This week I’d like to remind you all that agents experience rejection, too. Each day we receive rejections from publishing houses …
Exploring Your Social Media Persona
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
I’ve always enjoyed personality assessments. I’ve taken the Myers-Briggs Indicator®, the StrengthsFinder 2.0, and Florence Littauer’s Personality Plus assessment. I’ve tried a number of tests that helped highlight my spiritual gifts. I’m sure there are …
Praying for Your Publishing House
Blogger: Rachel Kent
I clicked a link on Facebook to the Bethany House blog yesterday and saw that they host a prayer day the first Sunday of every month for the authors with releases that month. How cool is that?! …
Do you need to declare an unplugged sabbath?
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
This weekend, I read a newspaper article about a Portland home decor company owner who created a safe room. Oh, not a room to hunker down in and wait out invaders. Well, not the kind of …
Slacking Off
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
This will be the last post of the year for Books & Such. We will resume daily blog posts on January 2nd, 2014. As you stop by and see this same post for some two+ weeks we …
Catching Fire
Blogger: Rachel Kent
How many of you are going to see “Catching Fire” this weekend? I’m writing this post on Thursday afternoon and I have tickets to see it tonight! I’m excited! I’d love to hear your thoughts on the …
Into the Unknown: Learning to Trust
Blogger: Rachel Kent
I sold my house yesterday. As long as everything goes as planned, we are going to need to move out by the 31st, and we don’t have a place to go yet. My husband and I are …