Blogger: Michelle Ule, Books & Such Assistant
Location: Paris
Weather: You don’t want to know
While everyone else in the office is preparing for Mount Hermon’s Christian Writers Conference, I slipped out early on a long planned trip to Paris …
Reading
Character–Is That Me I See?
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such office, Nashville
Weather: Warm and cloudy
Interviewers often ask authors about the connection between a fictional character and the author’s mother, father, husband, wife, child, and the author him or herself. Just last …
Characters–Human or Not?
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such office, Nashville
Weather: 65 and spring rain
Do protagonists have greater appeal to readers if they are human, or is it more important that a character simply exhibit some human characteristics? Animal characters …
Characters–Cardboard or Electric?
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books&Such office, Nashville
Weather: 70s and breezy
One thing is clear–a whole lot of people are writing about “fictional character development”! According to Google today, there are 372,000 entries for that topic. Reading a few of …
Books to Movies
Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Since it’s Friday, here’s a fun movie quiz:
1) What book was the movie “Slumdog Millionaire” based on?
2) What words do the letters in WALL-E’s name stand …
Age and Page 1
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Office, Nashville
Weather: 61 and rainy
This business of standards of decency for children’s books is one that keeps me thinking. I understand the difficulty of making rules for what words and scenes …
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 …