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Breaking Out of the Pack: A Fresh Approach

May 4, 2010 //  by Janet Grant//  15 Comments

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

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

Recently I was a guest interviewee on the popular blog, Seekerville.  I love the blog’s sassy attitude, and interacting with the blog’s commenters was stimulating and …

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Breaking Out of the Pack: Creating Icons

May 3, 2010 //  by Janet Grant//  11 Comments

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

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

A few weekends ago, I joined my book club on a Dashiell Hammett tour of San Francisco. We ate at John’s Grill (which appears in The Maltese …

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Friday Free-for-All

April 30, 2010 //  by Etta Wilson//  8 Comments

Blogger:      Etta Wilson

Location:    Annapolis, MD

Weather:    Low 70s and overcast

All week I’ve been thinking and blogging about poetry—its appeal to different ages, its forms, its seemingly universal origins. I don’t know if I’m any closer to a definition …

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Poetry: Fiction’s Rib

April 29, 2010 //  by Etta Wilson//  2 Comments

Blogger:      Etta Wilson

Location:    Books & Such Nashville Office

Weather:    Low 70s and Lovely

The essence of my ruminations on poetry is how it can enliven and engage readers in our other writing, particularly fiction. I’m reading Brenda Vantrease’s The …

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Poetry in Every Tongue and Place

April 28, 2010 //  by Etta Wilson//  9 Comments

Blogger:      Etta Wilson

Location:    Books & Such Nashville Office

Weather:    High 70s

Some sources claim that poetry is the oldest form of literature. Reading the Psalms and the Iliad or the Odyssey suggests that may be true. (Wish I could …

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The Look of Poetry

April 27, 2010 //  by Etta Wilson//  5 Comments

Blogger:       Etta Wilson

Location:     Books & Such Nashville Office

Weather:     Slight chance of showers

Recently an author asked me how many poems she should include in a manuscript for a picture book of poetry. I had no idea how to …

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April When Poems Blossom

April 26, 2010 //  by Etta Wilson//  13 Comments

Blogger:  Etta Wilson

Location: Books & Such Nashville Office

Weather: Fair and low 70s

I love April! For many of us it signals the sure re-awakening from winter. Each spring I count the different blooming plants and trees in my …

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Marketing, Schmarketing

April 9, 2010 //  by Janet Grant//  21 Comments

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

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

As regularly occurs at writers conferences, while I was at Mount Hermon, I heard again and again the importance of an author partnering with his/her publisher in …

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Nonfiction News

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

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

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

While at the Mount Hermon Writers Conference, I discussed nonfiction with several editors but found little news beyond that publishers aren’t offering contracts on projects that have …

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The Face of Fiction

April 7, 2010 //  by Janet Grant//  20 Comments

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

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

While at the Mount Hermon Writers Conference, I heard some tidbits from editors about fiction, which I’d like to pass along to you. I hope you’ll find …

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