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A Social Media Platform that REALLY Sells Books: TikTok

July 28, 2021 //  by Janet Grant//  14 Comments

I need to start out by apologizing. I know writers are weary of being told to build their platforms, to promote their books on social media, to, well, work magic at something most don’t particularly enjoy. I’m one of those …

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Favorite 2020 Reads

January 20, 2021 //  by Janet Grant//  29 Comments

Each January each year, I ponder which books I read the year before that were the most rewarding, stayed with me the longest (not in a bad way, like indigestion), and were the most exquisitely written. Below are my favorite …

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What Could Make Any Christmas the Best Ever?

December 24, 2020 //  by Janet Grant//  4 Comments

This year I find myself realizing that not having a large family Christmas gathering leaves plenty of space to think about what we’re really celebrating at Christmas. To slow my heart to a more tempered pace this 2020 Christmas, I’m …

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The Joy of Re-reading

October 4, 2020 //  by Wendy Lawton//  14 Comments

Our blog friend, Andrew Budek-Schmeisser wrote in to suggest a blog post about re-reading Here’s what he wrote:.

May I suggest that a blog post might deal with re-reading books? In my straitened and dread circumstance, I am finding grace

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Favorite Book of 2019

January 6, 2020 //  by Janet Grant//  18 Comments

As has become my tradition, at the beginning of each new year, I like to reflect on the books I’ve read in the year that’s just closed out (not necessarily books published in that year) and call out my favorite …

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Favorite Children’s Christmas Books

December 18, 2019 //  by Janet Grant//  13 Comments

Christmas brings out the child in each of us in ways no other holiday does.  Most of us retain happy childhood memories of this special, celebratory season. Some of those memories are nestled inside favorite children’s Christmas books. You know, …

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Reading Groups and Why We Love Them

September 22, 2019 //  by Janet Grant//  9 Comments

Writers, for the most part, are readers. And that means they have two reasons to feel fondness for reading groups: as a grand place to connect with fellow readers and discuss a book; as an author who knows connecting with …

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Tidying Up Your Grammar

September 4, 2019 //  by Janet Grant//  24 Comments

By Janet Kobobel Grant

I’ve been editing in one capacity or another all of my adult life. Why, I just finished editing my grandson’s résumé for his first job out of college. And I’ve edited all sorts of work-related documents, …

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The Demise of Book Collecting?

January 23, 2019 //  by Wendy Lawton//  37 Comments

By Wendy Lawton

Books as disposables. Nothing could be sadder.

Did you catch the the suggestion regarding books reportedly made by Marie Kondo, the organizing guru who hosts the Netflix show, Tidying Up? I read that she suggested that, ideally, …

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My Favorite Book of 2018

January 2, 2019 //  by Janet Grant//  11 Comments

 By Janet Kobobel Grant

As has been my tradition over the last several years, I wanted to share with you my reading highlights from 2018. Generally, I have a number of titles that were a delight to consume, but this …

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