Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Friday!
We made it!
I like to use my Fridays as reading days. I enjoy reading and look forward to it, so it’s a nice, end-of-the-week treat. I …
Reading
While U Wait: Perfect Your Craft
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Tehachapi, CA
Weather: Breezy and beautiful
Last time I blogged, I talked about query letter dos and don’ts. Mostly the don’ts. I want to follow that up with the next step–what to do once you’ve got …
Writing Ruts
Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
I was reading a non-work-related novel over the weekend and found that I was slowly being driven crazy by the continuous mention of CHILDREN! I love kids, don’t …
Books reflecting too-real life
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
They were sitting in the submarine wardroom on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean one morning, when the Commanding Officer entered and began his briefing for the planned …
Masterpiece Theater engineering romance
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
As aforementioned, my husband and I became fans of PBS’s Masterpiece Theater early in our marriage. Back in those days, which seem almost Dickenesque now, the program aired …
Newlywedded books
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Drizzly Santa Rosa, Calif., main office
I never had paid a lot of attention to my boyfriend’s reading while we dated. We attended college sixty miles apart, and while I was immersed in Milton, Shakespeare, Chaucer …
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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Who's to Choose?
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Colorado Springs
Weather: Hot and cold–we’re in Colorado
I am incensed by an article in School Library Journal in early February entitled “A Dirty Little Secret.” The author Debra Whelan is trying to make the case …
Rest Is Reading–Or Vice Versa
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Kensington, Maryland
Weather: Freezing day and night
I’ve pursued the question of “What is rest” as I’ve traveled from Tennessee to Virginia to Maryland, and my observations are as wide-ranging as the miles I’ve covered. I …