Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
This week we’ve talked about a few of the ways the publisher-author relationship can go askew. It’s not that anyone intended that to occur; it’s just that …
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You and Your Publisher: A Marketing Dream Team
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Let’s say your relationship with your publisher has gone swimmingly through the editorial process. Your editor got you, and you got your editor. What a team!
Now …
You and Your Publisher: Maintaining Communication Lines
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
As I was saying in my blog post yesterday, you can communicate not only inappropriate items to your publisher but, in addition, you can communicate too often. …
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You and Your Publisher: New Best Friends? Not!
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Since most of us will be out grilling, watching parades, and oohing and ahhing over fireworks on our grand Independence Day, this blog post will remain up …
Friday Free-for-All: Impediments to Writing
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
This week I’ve touched briefly on significant impediments to writers being able to produce quality work. Physical ailments, such as hand problems and blindness, can be frustrating for …
Impediments to Writing: Alcohol and Drugs
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
I grew up in a community of folks who knew how to party well on Saturday nights. Charming, funny, clever and lovely, they nearly all enjoyed a drink …
Emotional Impediments to Writing
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Pity F. Scott Fitzgerald, a talented Ivy Leaguer who fell in love with a beautiful Southern belle of exceptional creativity and beauty with a terrific name: Zelda.
Their …
Physical Impediments to Writing
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Yesterday I wrote about my own challenges with writing; today we’re going to talk about what others have dealt with.
Prior to fifty years ago, blindness was a …
Impediments to Writing
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
It started innocently enough at Thanksgiving. My adorable two-year-old grandson began to cry. When I picked him up, I nearly dropped him from the strain on my thumbs. …
Friday Free-for-All: Language and Our Melting Pot
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
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At a recent writers conference, I was surprised to see that two of popular tween author Nancy Rue’s books in the Lily Series are set outside the U.S.—one …