Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Thanks so much for sharing your proposal styles and proposal stories yesterday! That was fun. 
Today I would like to concentrate on the book comparisons or market analysis sections in…
Read More...By Rachel Kent on Nov 16, 2010 in Authors, Blog, Book Proposals, Fiction, Nonfiction, Writing Craft | 11 Comments
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
I hope you didn’t get too excited by the blog title. Unfortunately, we’re not talking about marriage proposals this week. (But wouldn’t that be fun?!) I’m not qualified to instruct…
Read More...By Rachel Kent on Nov 15, 2010 in Blog, Book Proposals, Fiction, Nonfiction, Writing Craft, Writing Life | 23 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Bowker reports the following book market trends from the second quarter of this year:
By Janet Grant on Nov 2, 2010 in Blog, Fiction, Nonfiction, Publishers, Publishing News, Reading, Writing Life | 10 Comments
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
Weather: Mid-80s and rainy
I think I’ve mentioned here that my first employment straight out of college was as a teacher of American history in Virginia. I was expected to spend a good half…
Read More...By Etta Wilson on Sep 27, 2010 in Blog, Fiction, Nonfiction, Writing Life | 22 Comments
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Where do you like to read? Sitting in a chair? Lying in bed? Riding a plane?
My father visited us in Seattle once and announced if he had a ferry to…
Read More...By Michelle Ule on Sep 8, 2010 in Blog, Fiction, Life, Nonfiction, Reading | 5 Comments
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office
For our last Favorite Five day, I thought we’d share our favorite “classic” writers. It begs the question, what makes one classic? I’m not sure I have an answer to that but…
Read More...By Wendy Lawton on Aug 20, 2010 in Blog, Nonfiction, Reading | 5 Comments
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office
This one is a little easier for me since one of our criteria is books that changed our lives. Here are my five:
Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis— This book started me on…
Read More...By Wendy Lawton on Aug 19, 2010 in Blog, Nonfiction, Reading | 7 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…
Read More...By Janet Grant 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…
Read More...By Janet Grant on Aug 4, 2010 in Blog, Fiction, Nonfiction, Publishing News | 3 Comments
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
It used to be that, for first-time writers, the best way to break into the publishing world was through writing nonfiction. Yet without a platform, today it’s difficult for writers…
Read More...By Michelle Ule on Jul 23, 2010 in Blog, Life, Nonfiction, Reading, Writing Life | 7 Comments
