Fiction

Friday Free For All–Books Imitating Life

Michelle Ule

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…

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Books reflecting too-real life

Michelle Ule

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.…

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Masterpiece Theater engineering romance

Michelle Ule

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…

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That’s Amore!

Etta Wilson

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…

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Romance Keeps Growing

Etta Wilson

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…

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Men in Print

Etta Wilson

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…

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Tools for the Writer’s Life: Day 1

Rachel Zurakowski

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…

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Right Brain vs. Left Brain

Rachel Zurakowski

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)…

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Traveling Abroad and Creativity

Rachel Zurakowski

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…

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Friday Free-for-All: Book Trends

Michelle Ule

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…

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