by Jamie Chavez | Oct 4, 2011 | The Arts & Media, Words & Language
I love Entertainment Weekly magazine for a variety of reasons. One of them is the fabulous job they do with headlines and subheads. (I say “they” because in the newspaper biz the editors write these things, but I’ve written a few magazine pieces and was asked to...
by Jamie Chavez | Aug 22, 2011 | Creativity, Miscellany, The Arts & Media
I read a little interview with musician Jack White in Entertainment Weekly recently that caught my eye. White was asked about his priorities since announcing the retirement of his first band, the White Stripes, to which he replied: “[My bands] Dead Weather and the...
by Jamie Chavez | Aug 18, 2011 | The Book Biz
Or, I’m not Really Opposed to Self-Publishing, It Just Sounds Like It. 🙂 In a recent post I was discussing Eric Felton’s recent Wall Street Journal article about the rush to self-publish by folks whose manuscripts may or may not be worth reading. So let me be clear:...
by Jamie Chavez | Jul 21, 2011 | Miscellany
Every summer, I see book marketing that involves the idea that readers will spend a lot of time reading in the warm months. I’m not sure anyone but schoolchildren actually have large swaths of time for summertime reading (personally, I have more time for reading in...
by Jamie Chavez | Jul 23, 2010 | Authors & Other Writers, Miscellany
I was shocked when I read a little article/interview with Diana Gabaldon in Entertainment Weekly today. (Best known for the best-selling Outlander series, which has been sold in twenty-three countries and translated into nineteen languages, she’s published about a...
