by Jamie Chavez | Jul 16, 2012 | Authors & Other Writers, The Book Biz
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. —Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (1817) A couple years ago it was big news: “Manuscripts Suggest Jane Austen Had a Great Editor” was the headline at NPR’s online...
by Jamie Chavez | Jun 28, 2012 | Your Editor Says …
Yes, I am trying to hold back a flood. And I’m a little annoyed with the AP Stylebook. As the Washington Post says: The barbarians have done it, finally infiltrated a remaining bastion of order in a linguistic wasteland. They had already taken the Oxford English...
by Jamie Chavez | Apr 30, 2012 | Your Editor Says …
I’ve had it, people. Nouns and pronouns should agree, as we’ve discussed—briefly—before. According to an article (“All-Purpose Pronoun”) in the New York Times, this makes me a “grammarian” (with the old-fashioned, old fogey part of the description missing but clearly...
by Jamie Chavez | Apr 12, 2012 | Your Editor Says …
A couple years ago I had an unpublished author approach me about editing her manuscript (a memoir). She had found me through my website, so naturally I assumed she’d, you know, read at least some of the content there before making the decision to contact me....
by Jamie Chavez | Mar 6, 2012 | The Book Biz
But they would be wrong. We’ve talked about quoting people—living and dead—and making sure we’ve done it correctly, but now let’s talk about what’s permissible to quote. We all have a song that changed life as we knew it, right? Profound, man. It came along at a time...
