Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office
If you frequent agent blogs or follow agents on Twitter you’ll see plenty written about the many ways writers fail. From terrible queries to brash behavior, from craft errors to …
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Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office
If you frequent agent blogs or follow agents on Twitter you’ll see plenty written about the many ways writers fail. From terrible queries to brash behavior, from craft errors to …
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Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
So far this week, we’ve examined:
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Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
In the Herbie Hancock interview on the PBS News Hour that I referred to yesterday, I learned that Hancock won a Grammy Award in 2009 for reconfiguring …
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Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
On the PBS News Hour, I recently saw a report on jazz legend Herbie Hancock, who talked about an especially memorable time he performed with his …
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Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Yesterday, I wrote about Deep Travel and how it can open our eyes to see in a more focused, new way. Another way that seeing can expand …
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Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
One wondrous aspect of writing is that it calls upon us to find that gold vein of creativity. One of the toughest aspects of writing is that …
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Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
Weather: Mid-70s
British fiction is no doubt the parent of American fiction, and from the passion for the Victorian novel in Britain came the blossoming of novels here in the late …
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Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
Weather: mid-70s and dry
Reading a review of Ken Follett’s Fall of Giants, the first book in his new historical trilogy, I found this quote from Follett: “Almost all the …
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Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
Weather: mid-70s
As you could see from the list of ACFW awards for historical fiction in Monday’s blog, an author can approach writing stories set in the past a number of …
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Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
Weather: Mid-80s and rainy
I think I’ve mentioned here that my first employment straight out of college was as a teacher of American history in Virginia. I was expected to spend …