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What Drives an Agent Crazy? Part 5

janetgrant

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.

The week of writing about crazy-driving scenarios wouldn’t be complete if I didn’t mention that sometimes the good folks at the publishing houses drive us crazy. One of those…

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What Drives an Agent Crazy? Part 4

janetgrant

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

Location: Los Angeles

If you read my post yesterday, I talked about agents who poach clients from other agents. But another crazy-making scenario is when a client leaves an agent badly.

Every client an agent picks is chosen…

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What Drives an Agent Crazy? Part 3

janetgrant

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.

Lest you think, based on my posts so far this week, that only writers drives agents crazy, let me hasten to say that agents drive agents crazy!

A perennial problem…

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What Drives Agents Crazy? Part 2

janetgrant

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.

Connected with my post from yesterday, when I wrote about writers who try to glean free advice from agents, are writers who are in a pickle with their agent…

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What Drives an Agent Crazy? Part 1

janetgrant

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.

Every job has its drawbacks. You know, the stuff you’d just as soon not have to deal with but put up with for the inherent rewards in what you…

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Friday Free-for-All

Etta Wilson

Blogger:    Etta Wilson

Location:   Books & Such Nashville Office

Weather:    High 80s

In the wide-ranging sweep of topics this week, I think I’ve pushed myself and you readers to explore the subconscious for writing motivation. Certainly I want us to look at nationalities,…

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A Prize-Winning Mix

Etta Wilson

Blogger:    Etta Wilson

Location:  Books & Such Nashville Office

Weather:   Low 90s

Looking at the American Library Association’s lists of awards and prizes over the years, I see several authors and books from other cultures. The Mildred L. Bachelder Award for best work…

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Children on Center Stage

Etta Wilson

Blogger:   Etta Wilson

Location: Books & Such Nashville Office

Weather:  Hot

Down at my second home, aka the nearest bookstore, I was looking for a few books I’d seen recommended recently. They were books for adults but with children in major roles. I’m…

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Crossing the Color Line

Etta Wilson

Blogger:   Etta Wilson

Location: Books & Such Nashville Office

Weather: Sunny and 92

In an online authors’ group, I’ve been reading a recent discussion about whether an author of one race can write effectively about characters of another.  Can a Caucasian write an…

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Out of Africa

Etta Wilson

Blogger: Etta Wilson

Location: Books & Such Nashville office

Africa has been popping up in one way or another during the past year for me. Last fall, I heard the organizer of the centennial for native Tennessean James Agee, who wrote the…

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