Blogger: Michelle Ule
Filling in for Wendy Lawton, who is traveling on business today.
When I finished writing my first novella,I felt proud about completing it several weeks before the deadline. I tweaked it a bit here and there, used …
Writing
Creativity & Cleaning Toilets
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
I’m feeling inspired and ready to creatively tackle a complex project I’ve needed to tackle for a long time. My muse, you ask? Why I spent the weekend cleaning out storage units, reorganizing the pantry and cleaning …
Reverse Fan Fiction: Fixing Harry Potter
Blogger: Rachel Kent
I came across this article on Yahoo yesterday, and I’m not sure what to think of this mom’s efforts to “fix” Harry Potter by writing a “reverse fan fiction” on fanfiction.net.
https://tv.yahoo.com/news/mom-rewriting-harry-potter-replace-witchcraft-christianity-221000371.html
I agree with her that …
Keeping Yourself Motivated to Write
Blogger: Rachel Kent
What motivates you to keep writing? We are all faced with the ups and downs that come on the roller coaster of publishing, but when we get discouraged it can be tempting to just give up. Here …
A Writer’s Mission Statement
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
The first page of my journal is never cycled out with the addition of new pages for a new year. On it is my mission statement, developed on May 6, 2001 when I was writing and working …
A Grateful Group
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Our Books & Such offices close after today for the Thanksgiving holiday so I am going to close out our blog for the week by talking about some of the things for which we at Books & …
Upping productivity: Is it time?
Blogger: Rachel Kent
I don’t know about you, but I’m always trying to find ways to be more productive. It seems like each day flies by more quickly than the day before. I have found a few areas where productivity …
Business and emotions: Receiving multiple offers for a book
Blogger: Rachel Kent
A couple of us at the agency have sold books this week after receiving multiple offers for the projects. It’s always very exciting to receive a lot of interest for a project and getting more than one …
Business and emotions: Receiving multiple offers for a bookRead More
Three things that surprised me about publishing
Blogger: Rachel Kent (Mary Keeley and I have switched blog days, so I’ll be posting on Friday now. Look for Mary’s posts on Wednesday.)
When I first started working at Books & Such as an intern back in 2005, I …
Super Bowl commercials and your book
Blogger: Rachel Kent
It’s always so much fun to talk about the Super Bowl ads, but I think that we can learn something from them to help with our writing as well. Now I have to confess, I didn’t see …