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Friday Free-for-All

Etta Wilson

Blogger:    Etta Wilson

Location:   Books & Such Nashville Office

Weather:    High 80s

In the wide-ranging sweep of topics this week, I think I’ve pushed myself and you readers to explore the subconscious for writing motivation. Certainly I want us to look at nationalities,…

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A Prize-Winning Mix

Etta Wilson

Blogger:    Etta Wilson

Location:  Books & Such Nashville Office

Weather:   Low 90s

Looking at the American Library Association’s lists of awards and prizes over the years, I see several authors and books from other cultures. The Mildred L. Bachelder Award for best work…

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Children on Center Stage

Etta Wilson

Blogger:   Etta Wilson

Location: Books & Such Nashville Office

Weather:  Hot

Down at my second home, aka the nearest bookstore, I was looking for a few books I’d seen recommended recently. They were books for adults but with children in major roles. I’m…

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Crossing the Color Line

Etta Wilson

Blogger:   Etta Wilson

Location: Books & Such Nashville Office

Weather: Sunny and 92

In an online authors’ group, I’ve been reading a recent discussion about whether an author of one race can write effectively about characters of another.  Can a Caucasian write an…

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Out of Africa

Etta Wilson

Blogger: Etta Wilson

Location: Books & Such Nashville office

Africa has been popping up in one way or another during the past year for me. Last fall, I heard the organizer of the centennial for native Tennessean James Agee, who wrote the…

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Friday Free-for-All: Technology and Books

Etta Wilson

Blogger:  Etta Wilson

Location: Books & Such Nashville Office

Weather: Hot and chance of showers

One of the big assumptions we make in this new age of digital publishing is that we will have the power to make the technology work. I haven’t…

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A New Wrinkle

Etta Wilson

Blogger:   Etta Wilson

Location: Books & Such Nashville office

Weather: Low 90s and muggy

A sentence on page 20 in Publishers Weekly’s recent July 19 issue on children’s books for this fall caught my eye: “…It’s unclear whether parents will fork over the money…

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Can You Cuddle with an e-Book?

Etta Wilson

Blogger:   Etta Wilson

Location: Books & Such Nashville Office

Weather: Hot and cloudy

Being a kids book’ advocate, I don’t think you can start little ones too early in grasping new experience from a book. Well, maybe I draw the line with prenatal…

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When Is a Book a Book?

Etta Wilson

Blogger:   Etta Wilson

Location: Books & Such Nashville Office

Weather: Hot and muggy

A recent quote in Newsweek from Anna Quindlen caught my eye: “Well, what is a book really? Is it its body or its soul?” I think that was her way of…

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Seen Any Kids’ Books Lately?

Etta Wilson

Blogger:    Etta Wilson

Location: Books & Such Nashville Office

Weather: Hot as you-know-what

The title for this post has a broader meaning than at first may come to mind. As I read the summer movie listings, review publishers’ offerings of games, and receive…

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