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,…
By Etta Wilson on Aug 27, 2010 in Blog, Reading, Writing Life | 6 Comments
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…
By Etta Wilson on Aug 25, 2010 in Blog, Fiction, Reading | 7 Comments
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…
By Etta Wilson on Aug 24, 2010 in Blog, Fiction, Reading | 10 Comments
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…
By Etta Wilson on Aug 23, 2010 in Awards, Reading | 15 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…
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…
By Wendy Lawton on Aug 19, 2010 in Blog, Nonfiction, Reading | 7 Comments
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…
By Wendy Lawton on Aug 18, 2010 in Blog, Fiction, Reading | 11 Comments
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…
By Wendy Lawton on Aug 17, 2010 in Blog, Fiction, Reading | 16 Comments
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…
By Wendy Lawton on Aug 16, 2010 in Blog, Children's books, Fiction, Reading, Teen books | 24 Comments
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…
By Rachel Zurakowski on Aug 10, 2010 in Blog, Marketing & Publicity, Publishers, Reading | 9 Comments
