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Mondays and Tuesdays are Be Bombarded By Emails Days. It usually takes me two days to work through all the messages that await me when I crank …
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Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Agents are, by nature, an optimistic yet cynical bunch. We believe we can sell projects despite economic free falls, yet we’ve been in the business long enough …
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Blogger: Etta Wilson
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I’ve pursued the question of “What is rest” as I’ve traveled from Tennessee to Virginia to Maryland, and my observations are as wide-ranging as the miles I’ve covered. I …
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I’m back at the seminary where my husband and I started our marriage. Serendipitously, we were given a room in the same building where we lived the first two years in …
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For those few of you who haven’t heard, Twitter is one of the fastest growing social networking sites on the Internet. Nielson Online predicts the number of …
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Location: Books & Such office, Nashville
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My new Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary lists one definition for the noun “rest” as “freedom from activity or labor.” That’s what I had in mind at the …
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Location: Books & Such Nashville office
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The other day I heard a commentary with a biblical perspective on time and our use of it. In Genesis 1 we hear over and over in …
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Before we get to the much-anticipated reading list, I want to thank you all for participating this week! I’ve had so much fun.
By the way, I’m teaching a workshop on this subject (entitled “When Your Audience Is the ‘Hoodie …
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Continuing our discussion about what makes a twentysomething reader tic, let’s dissect an imaginary book using a twentysomething mindset. I want to show you how the principles we’ve learned so far about twentysomethings would apply in this case. I wrote …
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Publicize your book in 15 minutes or less? Yes!
Here are five of my favorite tips for activities that can be achieved in 15 minutes or less:
1. Set up a Google alert for your name, your book title, and …
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