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One Writer’s Journey: Actually Writing the Story

April 14, 2011 //  by Michelle Ule//  13 Comments

Blogger: Michelle Ule

Location: In Santa Rosa packing for Mount Hermon Christian Writers Conference

What excitement! A contract!  I can write “novelist,” on my IRS 1040 for 2010! A dream has come true.

Or has it?

Don’t I have to …

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One Writer’s Journey: Cake and Champagne!

April 13, 2011 //  by Michelle Ule//  22 Comments

Blogger: Michelle Ule

Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.

I’ve been talking about being a writer my whole life. Even my elementary school-aged daughter, however, was on to my lack of publishing success when she asked ten …

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Rachel’s Favorite Christmas Memory

December 29, 2010 //  by Rachel Kent//  1 Comment

Blogger: Rachel Kent

Location: Home

My favorite Christmas memory for this year was having the entire Zurakowski family together for our Christmas Eve church service and also for Christmas Day gifts. All of us (my two brothers and two sisters …

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Things Writers Should Keep Track Of: Part 1

September 20, 2010 //  by Rachel Kent//  6 Comments

Blogger: Rachel Kent

Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.

What to keep track of before publication:

Even before you’re a published author, you need to keep track of many important items during the submission process. Charts and …

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Out of Africa

August 23, 2010 //  by Etta Wilson//  19 Comments

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 …

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Breaking the Rules

August 12, 2010 //  by Rachel Kent//  11 Comments

Blogger: Rachel Kent

Location: Greater Philadelphia Christian Writers’ Conference, Philadelphia, PA

 

When a writer creates a book that’s outside the boundaries established for a genre, the book can lose its place in the market. But this can be a

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Rock My World–and Yours, Part 5

August 6, 2010 //  by Janet Grant//  8 Comments

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

Location:Santa Rosa, Calif., Main Office

We could go  on discussing ways our publishing world is being rocked, but the final point I want to make this week is that we’ve all been thinking horizontally when the …

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Rock My World–and Yours, Part 4

August 5, 2010 //  by Janet Grant//  6 Comments

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.

Yesterday I wrote about how, for every trend, there’s a counter trend. One of the ways in which I see that being expressed is with the trend …

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Rock My World–and Yours, Part 3

August 4, 2010 //  by Janet Grant//  3 Comments

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

Location: Sonoma, Calif., planning retreat

Years ago I recall reading a publishing doyenne’s comments about publishing trends. At the time, readers were buying inexpensive mass market books by the wheel barrel. Well, it seemed as if …

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Rock My World–and Yours, Part 2

August 3, 2010 //  by Janet Grant//  6 Comments

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

Location: Sonoma, Calif, planning retreat

For those who read my blog post yesterday and scoffed at the thought of the disappearance of physical books, I wholeheartedly agree with you. Physical books will, I believe, continue to …

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