Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Books that include a collection of stories by different authors seem to be becoming increasingly popular. How are these projects planned? Who corrals all of the authors to create a…
By Rachel Kent on Feb 6, 2012 in Authors, Blog, Fiction, Productivity, Social Networking, Writing Life | 5 Comments
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa
“To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.”
Modern technology provides wonderful tools for research if you know how to harness them. And not just electronic…
By Michelle Ule on Dec 1, 2011 in Authors, Blog, Business of writing, Productivity, Writing Craft | 6 Comments
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
“I basically did all the library research for this book on Google,
and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time
but actually gave me a much richer offering of research…
By Michelle Ule on Nov 29, 2011 in Authors, Blog, Business of writing, Productivity, Writing Craft | 5 Comments
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Here are a few of my goals from last year. These goals were realistic goals for me, and I’ve been somewhat succeeded at them because of it.
Change my reading system…
By Rachel Kent on Nov 15, 2011 in Blog, Life, Productivity, Writing Life | 5 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Santa Rosa, Calif.
As we’ve talked about play and focusing on the rights things this week, I’d like to close out our conversation by mentioning a few ways to use your time as effectively as possible.I can’t…
By Janet Grant on Nov 4, 2011 in Blog, Business of writing, Productivity | 13 Comments
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
“Jesus came and told his disciples, ‘I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of…
By Rachel Kent on Oct 18, 2011 in Blog, Life, Marketing & Publicity, Productivity, Writing Craft, Writing Life | 13 Comments
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
It’s sometimes easy to lose track of the real reason we’re doing this work of writing books, publishing books, and publicizing what’s been published. I’ve seen a number of instances…
By Rachel Kent on Oct 17, 2011 in Agents, Authors, Blog, Productivity, Publishers, Writing Life | 11 Comments
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Cynthia touched on today’s tip in her comment yesterday. She wrote, “Healthy bodies build creative minds.” Healthy bodies are also less likely to procrastinate. The endorphins and other benefits of…
By Rachel Kent on Aug 18, 2011 in Blog, Productivity, Writing Craft, Writing Life | 15 Comments
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
If you’ve contracted the procrastination bug, another thing to try is to change your routine. Get up one hour earlier than you do now every work day and spend that…
By Rachel Kent on Aug 17, 2011 in Blog, Life, Productivity, Writing Craft, Writing Life | 10 Comments
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
I’ve run out of days for the number of “newbie” assumptions I have to write about! For today, I’m going to list five more, and then we can discuss them.
1)…
By Rachel Kent on Jul 22, 2011 in Blog, Finding an Agent, Productivity, Writing Craft, Writing Life | 11 Comments
