Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Wikipedia talks about “burnout” this way:
“The most well-studied measurement of burnout in the literature is the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Maslach and her colleague Jackson first identified the construct ‘burnout’…
By janetgrant on Feb 5, 2010 in Blog, Life, Publishers, Writing Life | 5 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Each of us is wired differently, but one aspect we all have in common: Certain activities relieve stress. When life overflows with tension, we need to make a conscious…
By janetgrant on Feb 4, 2010 in Blog, Life, Reading | 9 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
The same prisoner I wrote about yesterday was in solitary confinement the majority of his eight years as a Vietnam POW. He and other prisoners developed a “Morse” code…
By janetgrant on Feb 3, 2010 in Agents, Authors, Blog, Life, Writing Life | 8 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
I’ve found when dealing with long-term stress that the best posture for me to take is one of hopefulness and optimism but not unrealistic. In other words, it’s a…
By janetgrant on Feb 2, 2010 in Blog, Life, Writing Life | 9 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Last month I wrote about how publishing is ranked high among the most stress-filled occupations one could be involved in. I believe that’s not just true for those who…
By janetgrant on Feb 1, 2010 in Blog, Life, Writing Life | 10 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
For the year that our agency’s blog has existed, Friday’s post was Kathleen Y’Barbo’s domain, as she wrote about marketing and publicity insights in her role as Books and…
By janetgrant on Jan 8, 2010 in Publishers, Writing Life | 13 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
To recap, I have four wishes for the publishing industry in 2010. They include:
By janetgrant on Jan 7, 2010 in Blog, Publishers, Publishing News, Writing Life | 12 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, CA
In my continuing list of 2010 wishes for publishing, my third wish is that publishing associations would work together rather than protect their territory.
Because publishing is in such a state…
By janetgrant on Jan 6, 2010 in Blog, Publishers | 12 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
My #2 wish for the publishing industry (after #1 that overwork and stress could be reduced) is that publishers would not overbuy titles, resulting in many (most?) projects receiving…
By janetgrant on Jan 5, 2010 in Blog, Marketing & Publicity, Publishers, Writing Life | 13 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
We’ve all unwrapped the new year, expressing ourselves in the individual ways we’ve celebrated the tossing out of the old and the ushering in of the new. For me,…
By janetgrant on Jan 4, 2010 in Blog, Publishers, Writing Life | 17 Comments
