Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
If you don’t know what a QR code is, scroll down to the end of this post to take a peek. QR (which stands for “quick response”) codes are…
By Janet Grant on Feb 1, 2012 in Authors, Blog, Book Proposals, Business of writing, Marketing & Publicity, Publishers | 10 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Considering that January is about to exit our lives, I figure today is my last chance to let you know the word that Dictionary.com selected as depicting 2011: tergiversate.
Just…
By Janet Grant on Jan 31, 2012 in Agents, Authors, Blog, Business of writing | 5 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Pretty much everyone just wants to be liked, right? Why, we’ve all taken to heart one sentence from Sally Fields’ earnest Academy-Award acceptance speech: “You like me, you really…
By Janet Grant on Jan 30, 2012 in Authors, Awards, Blog, Publishers, Writing Life | 20 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
The last few days I’ve been exploring trends in our culture that can inform what we write about or how we reach readers. One idea that’s been around for…
By Janet Grant on Jan 6, 2012 in Blog, Life, Reading, Writing Life | 5 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
In many ways, our society feeds a sense of being part of the milieu rather than being uniquely you or me. As a result, individuals are looking for others…
By Janet Grant on Jan 5, 2012 in Blog, Publishing News, Reading | 10 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
I like to take the first few days of each year to get my grounding, to stabilize my feet under me, and to consider what the new year might…
By Janet Grant on Jan 4, 2012 in Blog, Life, Publishing News, Writing Life | 14 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Everyone at Books & Such is bubbling over with excitement. We have the joy of beginning 2012 with a major boost to our agent roster. Rachelle Gardner joins our…
By Janet Grant on Jan 3, 2012 in Agents, Blog, Publishing News | 30 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Santa Rosa, Calif., home of Books & Such’s main office
Even though yesterday was the official celebration of Christ’s birth, Christmas memories still flow for most of us, as we spend time with family and friends in…
By Janet Grant on Dec 26, 2011 in Blog, Christmas, Life | 4 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
In our continuing blog posts about Books & Such staff’s Christmas memories, this week we’ll each recall an ornament that holds special memories for us.
For me, this idea immediately…
By Janet Grant on Dec 19, 2011 in Blog, Christmas | 10 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Christmas nostalgia goes beyond the toys we at Books & Such wrote about last week. Our memories often involve a place as well. This week, we’ll continue our personal…
By Janet Grant on Dec 12, 2011 in Blog, Christmas | 9 Comments
