Blogger: Wendy Lawton
I just finished reading the final draft of Julie Klassen’s second book in her Ivy Hill series, The Ladies of Ivy Cottage which will be out in late fall. Part of what I wrote back to her …
Alexander McCall Smith
A Sense of Belonging
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
What do Amish fiction, Gilmore Girls, and Mitford have in common? The creators of all of these have tapped into our longing for a sense of belonging.
I spent last several days in Dallas at the …
Where Do You Read?
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Where do you like to read? Sitting in a chair? Lying in bed? Riding a plane?
My father visited us in Seattle once and announced if he had …
Out of Africa
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville office
Africa has been popping up in one way or another during the past year for me. Last fall, I heard the organizer of the centennial for native Tennessean James Agee, who …
Favorite Five: Contemporary Writers
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office
When we’re talking about favorite books it can get pretty intellectual. Too often we feel a kind of literary performance anxiety– like if we don’t name an artful enough book, …
A New Year—A New Story
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley, California Office
Weather: High eighties
Because today is Labor Day in America—a national holiday—I’m going to indulge in a purely personal post for today. Tomorrow I’ll don my agent hat again.…
While on the Way to Paris
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 …