Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
We know, we know, it’s Etta’s turn to blog this week. She’ll be back tomorrow to talk about book series.
In the meantime, we’ve been ruminating on a comment Nicole made…
By Michelle Ule on May 24, 2010 in Blog, Fiction, Reading | 17 Comments
By Michelle Ule on Apr 2, 2010 in Blog, Fiction, Reading | 6 Comments
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
The world-weary, bottle-blonde peered at my parents through the smoky haze of a Las Vegas nightclub.
Her voice rough after hours of belting out jazzy numbers, my aunt shook her head.…
By Michelle Ule on Apr 1, 2010 in Blog, Fiction | 1 Comment
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
I flipped a coin as I filled out my application to UCLA. Heads I’d major in English; tails it would be history.
Heads won. I read poetry and Shakespeare rather than…
By Michelle Ule on Mar 31, 2010 in Blog, Fiction | 10 Comments
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Contemporary Santa Rosa, Calif.
They say if you want to learn about political life in the past, read a history book. If you want to learn about social customs, read historical fiction.
Historical fiction…
By Michelle Ule on Mar 30, 2010 in Blog, Fiction | 9 Comments
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Holding down the fort in Santa Rosa while everyone else attends the Mount Hermon Christian Writer’s Conference.
“I don’t know why you kids bother to read fiction,” said Mrs. Klocki, my eighth-grade history teacher. “You should read history! …
By Michelle Ule on Mar 29, 2010 in Blog, Children's books, Reading | 4 Comments
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: NOT New Castle, Delaware where Wendy is busy with her brand-new first grandchild. (She will be back posting tomorrow.)
This week Wendy has been taking us through the heroic journey, likening novel writing and publishing to a grand endeavor.…
By Michelle Ule on Mar 10, 2010 in Blog, Writing Life | 4 Comments
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
I’ve written this week about how specific novels affected the early years of my marriage and thus my relationship with my terrific engineer husband. You don’t have to be married…
By Michelle Ule on Mar 5, 2010 in Blog, Fiction, Reading | 3 Comments
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
They were sitting in the submarine wardroom on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean one morning, when the Commanding Officer entered and began his briefing for the planned war games.…
By Michelle Ule on Mar 4, 2010 in Blog, Fiction, Reading | 9 Comments
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
As aforementioned, my husband and I became fans of PBS’s Masterpiece Theater early in our marriage. Back in those days, which seem almost Dickenesque now, the program aired once a week…
By Michelle Ule on Mar 3, 2010 in Blog, Fiction, Reading | 6 Comments
