Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
I don’t know about you, but I devote 1/4 to 1/3 of every week trying to keep up with publishing trends. Note the word “trying.” Despite the …
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Physical Impediments to Writing
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Yesterday I wrote about my own challenges with writing; today we’re going to talk about what others have dealt with.
Prior to fifty years ago, blindness was a …
While U Wait: Form the Infrastructure
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office
Weather: 84º and sunny
You’ve got queries and proposals circulating. You’re writing new books. Is there anything else to be done while you wait?
Goodness, yes! You need to get …
How Important Are Those Reviews?
Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Readers often do research before they buy a book, and reviews factor into purchases more and more.
The trend in reviews is changing rapidly with the change of …
Kindle Up Some Old Books
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
My husband bought me a Kindle for Christmas thirteen months ago, and he, a nuclear engineer, has enjoyed it ever since. He loves the access the electronic reader …
Best of the Blog 2009: Confessions of a Kindle Devotee
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley, California Office
Yesterday, while waiting for the doctor, I had my Kindle out, reading a manuscript. The doctor had to stop and play with it before we could get down to …
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Best of the Blog 2009: Where Do You Get Your Books?
Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
After yesterday’s fun discussion of endorsements and “book-buddies,” I got to thinking about where I get my books. I’d say that I purchase two-thirds of the books I …
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Best of the Blog 2009: Alphabet Soup: CEOs @BEA
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Enroute to Santa Rosa from BEA
Weather: Um, cloudy, looking at the view below the plane
A couple of you asked for trend info based on what Etta, Wendy, and I observed at BEA. I …
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 …