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Rachel Zurakowski

Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski

Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.

Yesterday Gina brought up an excellent reason for why some multi-published authors might end up writing the “same” story more than once. She pointed out that authors often write on…

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Friday Free-for-All

janetgrant

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.

I’ve spouted a number of opinions about how a writer can break out from the pack this week. I could have added so much more, including:

–the importance of knowing…

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So Many Positive Rejections: An Agent’s Response

Rachel Zurakowski

Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski

Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.

I received a rejection for a client’s project on Friday. Interestingly, all of the editors’ responses to this book have been just about the same.

The rejections look something like this:…

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Worst Case Scenario– Wrap-Up

Wendy Lawton

Blogger:  Wendy Lawton

Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office

Weather: 74º and sunny

Yesterday I set up a worst case scenario about a stalled career. Here’s what I said: All your life you wanted to be a writer. You persevered, landed an agent…

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Worst Case Scenario– Career Stall

Wendy Lawton

Blogger:  Wendy Lawton

Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office

Weather: 73º and sunny

Yesterday I set up a worst case scenario about fickle genre fashion using the yet undiscovered (or just plain fictitious) genre, edgy Brit-lit. Here’s what I wrote:

You’ve read nothing…

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Worst Case Scenario–Genre Fail

Wendy Lawton

Blogger:  Wendy Lawton

Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office

Weather: 68º and partly sunny

Yesterday I set up a brand new worst case scenario. Here it is: You have an amazing book burning a hole in your life. You have the material,…

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Research Beyond the Bookstore

Rachel Zurakowski

Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski

Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.

Researching at a bookstore is fun and you can learn a lot, but you can find out about trends in other places as well.

Spend some time looking at books online…

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Understanding the Market

Rachel Zurakowski

Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski

Location: Barnes & Noble, Santa Rosa, Calif.photo connelly

When I was in Denver at the Jerry B. Jenkins Writing for the Soul Conference, two questions I was asked frequently were, “What’s popular now?” and “What book trends do you see…

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Fried Friday Free-for-All: Avoiding Burnout

janetgrant

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa,  Calif.

Wikipedia talks about “burnout” this way:

“The most well-studied measurement of burnout in the literature is the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Maslach and her colleague Jackson first identified the construct ‘burnout’…

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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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