by Jamie Chavez | Dec 29, 2014 | Guest Posts, The Writing Craft
This is it! The Read Play Edit Restoration Project is almost complete! My friends have been helping me out with new and recycled posts of their own while I wrote and rewrote new articles to run in the new year. Today is the last of them—another great post from YA...
by Jamie Chavez | Dec 22, 2014 | Guest Posts, The Book Biz
In my ongoing Read Play Edit Rehabilitation Program, let me introduce my friend Christa Allan, writing about the importance of identifying your genre in a post repurposed from her own blog. Finding Your Genre: An Epiphany If you’re not from New Orleans and you find...
by Jamie Chavez | Dec 15, 2014 | Guest Posts, The Writing Craft
In this week’s guest post (we’re still operating in the Read Play Edit Blog Recovery Plan), author Norma Horton discusses character creation. The Voices in My Head Authors use a variety of tools to develop characters. My mentor, a Christy-Award-winning author, uses a...
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...
by Jamie Chavez | Dec 1, 2014 | Guest Posts, The Book Biz
A while back, editor Ramona Richards suggested she and I do a tag-team sort of post … and it never ran. That was a blessing in disguise, because now I really need it for the Read Play Edit Blog Recovery Plan! Here’s a look at a freelance editor and a managing editor,...
