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: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
Weather: up to mid-40s
How many words are there for love? I wish we had more in the English language to distinguish the kinds of love.
We have parental love for a child, love based…
By Etta Wilson on Feb 25, 2010 in Blog, Fiction | 4 Comments
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
Weather: mid-40s again
I’m blown away by the statistics indicating how many romance novels are read! The Romance Writers of America website reports that 74.8 million Americans read at least one romance novel in…
By Etta Wilson on Feb 23, 2010 in Blog, Fiction | 10 Comments
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
Weather: Mid-40s
We’ve just passed Valentine’s Day, and as usual it had a lot of emphasis on the romantic relationship. My sweetie tends to get more tender as the years go by, and I…
By Etta Wilson on Feb 22, 2010 in Blog, Fiction, Reading | 5 Comments
Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
As you know, there’s much more to writing these days than just producing a book. Some authors would claim that the writing is the easy part! The hard part of…
By Rachel Zurakowski on Feb 15, 2010 in Authors, Blog, Fiction, Nonfiction, Writing Life | 11 Comments
Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski
Location: Books & Such Literary Agency Main Office, Rain-soaked Santa Rosa, Calif.
The comments you wrote about outlining on Monday’s blog left me wondering a couple of things. First, I was wondering (and have no way to prove it)…
By Rachel Zurakowski on Jan 21, 2010 in Blog, Fiction, Life, Nonfiction, Productivity, Writing Life | 25 Comments
Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Traveling abroad has always been portrayed in literature as a way to refinement. When I think of the dream of traveling to foreign lands, I can’t help but think of…
By Rachel Zurakowski on Jan 19, 2010 in Blog, Fiction, Life, Nonfiction, Productivity, Writing Life | 12 Comments
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
This week I’ve talked about how books differ through the years–whether it’s the subject of 1950s Beany Malone, the behavior of 1794 heroines in The Mysteries of Uddolpho, the language of Adventures…
By Michelle Ule on Jan 15, 2010 in Blog, Fiction, Publishers, Reading | 15 Comments
