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Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
How do you make an editor or agent notice your work? I think most of us realize that editors and agents are bombarded with ideas every day. …
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Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Recently I was a guest interviewee on the popular blog, Seekerville. I love the blog’s sassy attitude, and interacting with the blog’s commenters was stimulating and …
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Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
A few weekends ago, I joined my book club on a Dashiell Hammett tour of San Francisco. We ate at John’s Grill (which appears in The Maltese …
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Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Annapolis, MD
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All week I’ve been thinking and blogging about poetry—its appeal to different ages, its forms, its seemingly universal origins. I don’t know if I’m any closer to a definition …
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Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
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The essence of my ruminations on poetry is how it can enliven and engage readers in our other writing, particularly fiction. I’m reading Brenda Vantrease’s The …
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Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
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Some sources claim that poetry is the oldest form of literature. Reading the Psalms and the Iliad or the Odyssey suggests that may be true. (Wish I could …
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Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
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Recently an author asked me how many poems she should include in a manuscript for a picture book of poetry. I had no idea how to …
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Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
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I love April! For many of us it signals the sure re-awakening from winter. Each spring I count the different blooming plants and trees in my …
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Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
As regularly occurs at writers conferences, while I was at Mount Hermon, I heard again and again the importance of an author partnering with his/her publisher in …
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Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
While at the Mount Hermon Writers Conference, I discussed nonfiction with several editors but found little news beyond that publishers aren’t offering contracts on projects that have …