Fiction

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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Favorite Five: Novels

Wendy Lawton

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…

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Favorite Five: Contemporary Writers

Wendy Lawton

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…

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Favorite Five: Children’s Books

Wendy Lawton

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…

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Breaking the Rules

Rachel Zurakowski

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…

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Rock My World–and Yours, Part 4

janetgrant

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…

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Rock My World–and Yours, Part 3

janetgrant

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…

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Friday in the Life of an Agent: Reading

Rachel Zurakowski

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…

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A Tale Continued

Etta Wilson

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…

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