Blogger: Wendy Lawton (Brand New Grandmother)
Location: Old New Castle, Delaware
Weather: 63º and cloudy
I appreciate Michelle filling in for me yesterday and I love how she highlighted some of those delightful detours on the journey by reminding us of the surprise…
By Wendy Lawton on Mar 11, 2010 in Blog, Writing Life | 0 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 | 3 Comments
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Old New Castle, Delaware
Weather: 59º and sunny
As we continue talking about the writer’s journey let’s look at the second step.
Step Two: The Threshold
This is the jumping off point for the adventure. Once past this threshold, the hero…
By Wendy Lawton on Mar 9, 2010 in Blog, Writing Life, query | 7 Comments
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Old New Castle, Delaware
Weather: Warm 57º and sunny
Each time I approach my blog week, I try to think back to some of the concerns of the past few weeks to see if I can offer something of…
By Wendy Lawton on Mar 8, 2010 in Blog, Writing Life | 12 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 | 8 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
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Drizzly Santa Rosa, Calif., main office
I never had paid a lot of attention to my boyfriend’s reading while we dated. We attended college sixty miles apart, and while I was immersed in Milton, Shakespeare, Chaucer and the…
By Michelle Ule on Mar 2, 2010 in Blog, Reading | 6 Comments
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: The new main office in Santa Rosa, Calif.
My husband and I both majored in ENG in college. At UCLA, that meant ENGLISH. At Harvey Mudd College, that meant ENGINEERING. You can imagine how, theoretically, we could have been…
By Michelle Ule on Mar 1, 2010 in Blog, Reading | 13 Comments
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
Weather: about 40 degrees
Like many of you I suspect, I’m wrapped up in the Winter Olympics. At a dinner party this past weekend, we had quite a discussion about what makes curling a…
By Etta Wilson on Feb 26, 2010 in Authors, Blog, Writing Life | 9 Comments
