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…
By Etta Wilson on Aug 25, 2010 in Blog, Fiction, Reading | 7 Comments
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…
By Etta Wilson on Aug 24, 2010 in Blog, Fiction, Reading | 10 Comments
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office
Yesterday we had such fun talking about our entertainment reading. And that’s not to say that some of those writers are not intellectual or literary– it’s just that those are the books…
By Wendy Lawton on Aug 18, 2010 in Blog, Fiction, Reading | 11 Comments
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office
When we’re talking about favorite books it can get pretty intellectual. Too often we feel a kind of literary performance anxiety– like if we don’t name an artful enough book, we’ll somehow…
By Wendy Lawton on Aug 17, 2010 in Blog, Fiction, Reading | 16 Comments
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office
Last time I blogged I promised you, dear readers, that for just this once I would refrain from blogging about gruesome realities like Career Killers, Kisses of Death, QueryFails or Worst Case Scenarios. I…
By Wendy Lawton on Aug 16, 2010 in Blog, Children's books, Fiction, Reading, Teen books | 24 Comments
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Greater Philadelphia Christian Writers’ Conference, Philadelphia, PA
When a writer creates a book that’s outside the boundaries established for a genre, the book can lose its place in the market. But this can be a successful technique in…
By Rachel Zurakowski on Aug 12, 2010 in Blog, Fiction, Publishers, Writing Craft | 8 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Yesterday I wrote about how, for every trend, there’s a counter trend. One of the ways in which I see that being expressed is with the trend toward more…
By janetgrant on Aug 5, 2010 in Blog, Fiction, Nonfiction | 6 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Sonoma, Calif., planning retreat
Years ago I recall reading a publishing doyenne’s comments about publishing trends. At the time, readers were buying inexpensive mass market books by the wheel barrel. Well, it seemed as if they were…
By janetgrant on Aug 4, 2010 in Blog, Fiction, Nonfiction, Publishing News | 3 Comments
Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Friday!
We made it!
I like to use my Fridays as reading days. I enjoy reading and look forward to it, so it’s a nice, end-of-the-week treat. I read manuscripts and proposals…
By Rachel Zurakowski on Jun 18, 2010 in Agents, Blog, Book Proposals, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reading | 8 Comments
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
Weather: Summer Showers
What is a fiction series? The answer to that question is not as apparent as we might at first think. A fiction series can be defined as a succession of related…
By Etta Wilson on May 26, 2010 in Blog, Fiction | 8 Comments
