Blogger: Rachel Kent
While I was at the Mount Hermon conference, I briefly met with an author to listen to a pitch. Based on the short introduction to the manuscript, I had a few words of advice on how the …
critiques
What do you do with a scathing book review?
Blogger: Rachel Kent
A negative book review can be devastating to an author; some of you may have already experienced this. It’s hard to put your book baby out there in the first place, but then when people say nasty …
Assumptions of an Unpublished Writer: It’s Not Personal
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Have you ever received a rejection for one of your projects? I bet that, if you’ve been submitting your project for any longer than two months, you have …
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Our Changing World: Editors
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Because Memorial Day is a day of remembrance, I thought it would be interesting to think back to what publishing was like in, say, the 1980s. (Yes, …