by Jamie Chavez | Sep 13, 2014 | The Book Biz, Your Editor Says …
I’m an editor, and, yes, I am well aware I’ve given you a quote that probably made you stop breathing for a moment. (Or, usually, just not respond.) So I was delighted when I found this pair of articles from an editor I don’t know but really appreciate. In “Why are...
by Jamie Chavez | Mar 20, 2014 | The Book Biz
I laughed out loud when I read this post from literary agent Janet Grant about a guy who got an agent for his first book and was suddenly an expert on the subject. “So who appointed this guy to write about finding an agent,” she writes, “when he was pretty much...
by Jamie Chavez | Dec 5, 2013 | The Book Biz, Your Editor Says …
I’ve been having some wry conversations with an acquisitions editor I do some work for about the resistance some writers have to editorial direction. So I was interested when a friend brought this Writer Unboxed article to my attention the morning it published. In it,...
by Jamie Chavez | Nov 2, 2013 | The Book Biz
We’ve been talking about the importance of editing these last couple weeks, particularly, in this case, substantive editing and copyediting. (Need to know the difference?) So this would be a great place to feature the four-part series my friend, Irish editor Robert...
by Jamie Chavez | Oct 7, 2013 | The Writing Craft
I grew up in a house that very often had a card table set up with an ongoing jigsaw puzzle on it. Today you’ll find that jigsaw puzzle on my dining room table. I find them mentally stimulating—but also very relaxing. It’s a paradox! So … I love a puzzle. Which is why...
