Blogger: Wendy Lawton
If you’ve spent any time around me, you’ve undoubtedly seen me holding a marbled black Waterman Phineas fountain pen. I work better when it is in my hand. I think better when I’m holding it. Ideas flow …
Charles Dickens
Best-Sellers: What Puts a Book on the List?
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Main office, Santa Rosa, CA
Everyone knows the best-selling book of all time is the Bible. And why not? Versions of the Hebrew Scriptures were first written in velum circa 200 B.C. If your book has …
Christmas Novel or Novella: Janet’s Favorite
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
This week, as we slip deeper into the coziness of Christmas, each of us at Books & Such will post about our favorite Christmas novel or novella.…
Historicals Over There
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
Weather: Mid-70s
British fiction is no doubt the parent of American fiction, and from the passion for the Victorian novel in Britain came the blossoming of novels here in the late …
Everybody Has a Story
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
The world-weary, bottle-blonde peered at my parents through the smoky haze of a Las Vegas nightclub.
Her voice rough after hours of belting out jazzy numbers, my aunt …
Character Creation
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such office, Nashville
Weather: Low 60s and spring buds high and low
Some recent reading has caused me to think a lot about the role of character in our writing. The time-honored rule in …