Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
How do you make an editor or agent notice your work? I think most of us realize that editors and agents are bombarded with ideas every day. So far…
By janetgrant on May 5, 2010 in Blog, Fiction, Finding an Agent, Writing Life | 3 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Recently I was a guest interviewee on the popular blog, Seekerville. I love the blog’s sassy attitude, and interacting with the blog’s commenters was stimulating and fun since topics…
By janetgrant on May 4, 2010 in Blog, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reading, Writing Life | 15 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
A few weekends ago, I joined my book club on a Dashiell Hammett tour of San Francisco. We ate at John’s Grill (which appears in The Maltese Falcon, the…
By janetgrant on May 3, 2010 in Blog, Fiction, Nonfiction, Writing Life | 11 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
As regularly occurs at writers conferences, while I was at Mount Hermon, I heard again and again the importance of an author partnering with his/her publisher in marketing. What…
By janetgrant on Apr 9, 2010 in Blog, Marketing & Publicity | 21 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
While at the Mount Hermon Writers Conference, I discussed nonfiction with several editors but found little news beyond that publishers aren’t offering contracts on projects that have a limited…
By janetgrant on Apr 8, 2010 in Blog, Nonfiction | 6 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
While at the Mount Hermon Writers Conference, I heard some tidbits from editors about fiction, which I’d like to pass along to you. I hope you’ll find them helpful.…
By janetgrant on Apr 7, 2010 in Blog, Fiction | 20 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Whenever I’m on the faculty of the Mount Hermon Writers Conference, I’m always on the lookout for a chance to chat with editors about how their publishing houses are…
By janetgrant on Apr 6, 2010 in Blog, Book Proposals, Marketing & Publicity, Publishing News | 18 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
I know, I know, some of you have heard about branding so often that your ears flap shut when the word is uttered. But, having just returned from the…
By janetgrant on Apr 5, 2010 in Blog, Marketing & Publicity, Writing Life | 4 Comments
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
