by Jamie Chavez | Jan 2, 2016 | Books You Might Like
This has happened to you, I’m sure: you’re reading along and an exquisite sentence stops you in your tracks. Sometimes it’s in a novel full of perfection; sometimes it’s in a novel where it shines like a diamond in a pile of coal. This list came across Facebook this...
by Jamie Chavez | Nov 23, 2015 | The Writing Craft, Your Editor Says …
Not long ago an author friend of mine mentioned on Facebook that the book he was reading had too much repetition. “Characters frequently curl their fingers into their palms,” he said. “And everything smells like cinnamon.” In the amount of time it took three people to...
by Jamie Chavez | Nov 7, 2015 | Authors & Other Writers
We’ve talked some, here, about memoir, creative nonfiction, and personal essays, probably because it’s a type of writing I particularly enjoy (for work and personal reading). I’ve even reviewed some I’ve read: Michael Hainey, Elizabeth Bard, Eddie Huang, Phyllis Rose,...
by Jamie Chavez | Nov 2, 2015 | Your Editor Says …
A few nights ago over dinner the Boy’s girlfriend told me she was “an original Harry Potter kid. I grew up with Harry.” Golly, that stopped me in my tracks. (The first book—Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone—released in the United Stated on 1 September 1998.) I...
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...
