by Jamie Chavez | Oct 31, 2015 | Authors & Other Writers
About this time every year, articles about Bram Stoker appear, and I’d saved one just for curiosity’s sake (“Bram Stoker: 9 things you didn’t know about the ‘Dracula’ author” from the Christian Science Monitor): • Stoker was a sickly boy up to age seven. • He admired...
by Jamie Chavez | Oct 29, 2015 | Authors & Other Writers
Today I talked with an artist and a poet about luck. The artist (a man) is in his sixties; the poet (a man) is in his twenties. The artist is a cheerful curmudgeon, a man of years; the poet is sweetly irreverent, and still expecting, before he is too much older, his...
by Jamie Chavez | Oct 26, 2015 | The Book Biz
Not long ago—in the summer months—I had to explain to a writer that even if the very first publisher to whom he showed his (beautifully edited, ahem) manuscript* loved it (and he had a very specific publisher in mind), there was no way the book would be in the stores...
by Jamie Chavez | Oct 10, 2015 | The Book Biz
Shortly after I finished last week’s post about romance publishing (“That’s Not Writing, It’s Typing”), I stumbled upon an article that addressed my complaint about the amount of crap being shamelessly self-published. In her piece “Dear Self-Published Author: Do NOT...
by Jamie Chavez | Oct 9, 2015 | Your Editor Says …
No reviewer ever says, “By God, this book was well edited,” though reviewers seeem to have no compunction about slamming editors for not doing more, when they have no idea how hard an editor may have tried to eliminate a character or help an author with his tone. If a...
