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 …
The Agents of Books & Such Literary Management Muse About Books, Publishing, and Life
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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
Location: Kensington, Maryland
Weather: Freezing day and night
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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Blogger:Etta Wilson
Location: Richmond, Virginia
Weather: 45 and sunny
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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Blogger: Kathleen Y’Barbo
Location: PR Office, The Woodlands, TX
Weather: 37 degrees, cloudy
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 …
Marketing Matters: Twittiquette – How to Avoid Fleeing FollowersRead More
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Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such office, Nashville
Weather: Finally up from freezing
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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Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville office
Weather: 35 degrees, sunny
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 …
MARKETING MATTERS: 15 Minutes to Fame, Reaching Your PR Goals in 15 Minutes or LessRead More
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Because the 20s are years of so many transitions, each twentysomething is at a different place in life. (This makes twentysomethings easy-to-write protagonists!) A few things remain consistent about our generation, however, and these patterns of thought and behavior can …