by Jamie Chavez | Oct 19, 2015 | The Arts & Media
Earlier this summer I was sitting on the deck in the growing dusk after supper listening to the Boy talk with his cousins (my niece and her husband, let’s call them Suze and Sam) about social media. Suze is hovering around age forty; she recently left academia—where...
by Jamie Chavez | Jul 20, 2015 | Books You Might Like, The Book Biz
In case you missed it, we’ve had a gin-yoo-wine publishing event last week: the release of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman on 14 July. (That date will become important as you read on.) I’ll be frank: although her first book, To Kill a Mockingbird, won a Pulitzer Prize,...
by Jamie Chavez | Jul 4, 2015 | The Book Biz
Since the beginning of this year, publishing thought leader Jane Friedman has offered an interview series called 5 On. Each discussion is conducted by author Chris Jane, who “asks established, traditionally published authors and experienced self-published authors five...
by Jamie Chavez | Jan 8, 2015 | Books You Might Like
There is a photo of me in my mid-twenties sitting at the kitchen table reading a book. There are two other books on the table, one open, and my arms are positioned in such a way that I am touching all three books. This would not be untypical for me. In those days, I...
by Jamie Chavez | Dec 8, 2014 | Guest Posts, Your Editor Says …
Every so often I read something one of my friends has written and think, Man, I wish I’d written that! Which is exactly how I felt when I read this one from writer/editor Beth Bates. 🙂 And with the Read Play Edit Blog Recovery Plan still in effect, I had the perfect...
