Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Santa Rosa, Calif.
We didn’t raise our children to believe in Santa Claus. It wasn’t that we told them there wasn’t a Santa Claus; we just didn’t discuss him as a present-provider. We sort of punted on the…
By Michelle Ule on Dec 30, 2011 in Blog, Christmas, Life | 6 Comments
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Mainland, USA
Thanks to you, American taxpayers, my family spent four years sunning ourselves on the shores of Pearl Harbor while my husband rode his bike to work at the Navy base to repair submarines.
Christmas in Hawaii means…
By Michelle Ule on Dec 23, 2011 in Blog | 3 Comments
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
After my father’s death in 2002, we honored my parents’ memory by spending inheritance money on a family trip. My husband longed to visit Middle Earth, so once the college…
By Michelle Ule on Dec 16, 2011 in Blog, Christmas, Life | 5 Comments
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
I’m stretching the time-frame for my remembered Christmas from childhood into my adult years, as I recall the most splendid toy given to me. I don’t think you’ll mind. Who…
By Michelle Ule on Dec 9, 2011 in Blog | 11 Comments
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa
“I typically go overboard when I research new projects.”
In 2000, after five years of hard work, I realized I could spend the rest of my life researching my family…
By Michelle Ule on Dec 2, 2011 in Authors, Blog, Business of writing, Fiction, Writing Craft | 8 Comments
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa
“To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.”
Modern technology provides wonderful tools for research if you know how to harness them. And not just electronic…
By Michelle Ule on Dec 1, 2011 in Authors, Blog, Business of writing, Productivity, Writing Craft | 6 Comments
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
“My writing has to support more than my research habit,
but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.”
~Lynn Abby
Once I’ve found basic information electronically,…
By Michelle Ule on Nov 30, 2011 in Authors, Blog, Business of writing, Writing Craft | 5 Comments
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
“I basically did all the library research for this book on Google,
and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time
but actually gave me a much richer offering of research…
By Michelle Ule on Nov 29, 2011 in Authors, Blog, Business of writing, Productivity, Writing Craft | 5 Comments
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”
~ Zora Neale Hurston
By Michelle Ule on Nov 28, 2011 in Authors, Blog, Business of writing, Writing Craft | 5 Comments
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Santa Rosa’s main office
Conventional wisdom tells us that during the Great Depression (1929-1939), Americans flocked to the movie theaters to escape their drab lives through the music and dancing magic of Shirley Temple, Fred Astaire, and Ginger…
By Michelle Ule on Oct 14, 2011 in Authors, Blog, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reading | 10 Comments
