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Friday Free-for-All

Etta Wilson

Blogger:    Etta Wilson

Location:   Books & Such Nashville Office

Weather:    High 80s

In the wide-ranging sweep of topics this week, I think I’ve pushed myself and you readers to explore the subconscious for writing motivation. Certainly I want us to look at nationalities,…

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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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Out of Africa

Etta Wilson

Blogger: Etta Wilson

Location: Books & Such Nashville office

Africa has been popping up in one way or another during the past year for me. Last fall, I heard the organizer of the centennial for native Tennessean James Agee, who wrote the…

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Favorite Five: Classic Nonfiction Writers

Wendy Lawton

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…

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Favorite Five: Nonfiction Books

Wendy Lawton

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…

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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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Genre: Titles and Covers

Rachel Zurakowski

Blogger: Rachel Kent

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

As you saw from yesterday’s example, the cover of a book alone usually shows the reader what genre the book falls under. That’s one of the benefits of genre; the…

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