Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
Weather: As above
Wow! Here I am posting for the last time as an agent on the Books & Such blog site, and I realize for the first time that I can now be…
Read More...By Etta Wilson on Dec 3, 2010 in Blog | 28 Comments
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
Weather: Cold and clear
Here we are at Black Friday, named for the one day retailers can almost certainly turn a profit. It took me a a day or two to figure out the…
Read More...By Etta Wilson on Nov 26, 2010 in Blog, Christmas, Life, Reading | 13 Comments
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
Weather: Warm and cloudy
We eat for so many reasons, and some of us don’t or can’t eat for a lot of reasons. Everything from psychological, allergies and other health issues, as well as…
Read More...By Etta Wilson on Nov 24, 2010 in Blog, Life | 9 Comments
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
Weather: Cold and rainy
Our feeling about cookbooks may be an indicator of our feeling about the people and events associated with food as much as the food itself. I used to wonder about…
Read More...By Etta Wilson on Nov 23, 2010 in Blog, Life, Reading | 12 Comments
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
Weather: Rainy and cool
Well, here we are in the season of Thanksgiving! For some of us making our list of what we’re thankful for this year may take a little more effort than…
Read More...By Etta Wilson on Nov 22, 2010 in Authors, Blog, Life, Writing Life | 16 Comments
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such client retreat, Monterey, CA
Weather: Sunny
So many good travel books are available now–almost as many as cookbooks, but that’s another topic for a later blog. Being here in Monterey opens up all sorts of opportunities…
Read More...By Etta Wilson on Oct 28, 2010 in Authors, Blog, Writing Life | 9 Comments
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such client retreat, Monterey, Calif.
Weather: Grand
All summer I’ve been longing to go to the beach. Instead, I traveled to Minneapolis and St. Louis–about as mid-continent as you can get. Even if time had permitted, the…
Read More...By Etta Wilson on Oct 27, 2010 in Authors, Blog, Fiction, Writing Life | 8 Comments
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: On the way to Monterey
Weather: Mid-70s
Flying across this great land from Tennessee to California, I constantly was looking down to see which parts of the US were decked out in autumn’s splendor and which parts remain much…
Read More...By Etta Wilson on Oct 26, 2010 in Blog, Life, Writing Life | 6 Comments
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
Weather: 70 and cloudy
We are definitely in the time of nature’s full color. Driving down the Natchez Trace last week, I was thrilled at every turn with a new array–the golden browns and…
Read More...By Etta Wilson on Oct 25, 2010 in Blog, Fiction, Writing Craft | 8 Comments
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 1800s. Building on…
Read More...By Etta Wilson on Oct 1, 2010 in Authors, Blog, Fiction, Reading | 24 Comments
