by Jamie Chavez | Sep 12, 2016 | Words & Language
The word amazing is still way, way overused these days. She’s an amazing mother. That movie was amazing. It’s amazing that you can get up and do that every day. That clothing store is amazing. (A clothing store? Really? These are examples ripped from your editor’s own...
by Jamie Chavez | Jul 25, 2016 | The Book Biz, Your Editor Says …
A while back I got this question from an author: Do you need to have a trail of every iteration of changes—or could we put this on Google docs and always have a master at hand? I’ll spare you the litany of #CrankyEditor thoughts that went through my head, and get...
by Jamie Chavez | Jun 20, 2016 | Your Editor Says …
I’m a pretty organized/obsessive person when it comes to work. I have systems to keep track of current projects, to file work that’s finished, and to keep an eye on tracked changes (I save every version, both incoming and outgoing). It helps me keep my sanity. I read...
by Jamie Chavez | Jun 16, 2016 | Your Editor Says …
How much or how little “natural” ability anyone has is nearly impossible to gauge. When Emily Dickinson composed the lines that filled the pages she kept in her lonely desk, she could not know that her pure apprehension of the language, her immutable style and...
by Jamie Chavez | May 26, 2016 | The Book Biz
I used to spend the late portion of many evenings in the gigantic Tea Lounge on Union Street in Park Slope, along with a few dozen other people perched over their laptops and the occasional Orthodox couple on a date. Eventually I noticed a woman who was there pretty...
