by Jamie Chavez | Jul 12, 2014 | Books You Might Like
I’ve been reading nonfiction all year and one of my favorites so far is Phyllis Rose’s The Shelf from LEQ to LES: Adventures in Extreme Reading.* (And by the way, here is a delightful review of the book from the New Yorker. If you’d like a shorter review, here’s the...
by Jamie Chavez | Jul 10, 2014 | Authors & Other Writers, The Arts & Media
It’s still summer—hot enough for y’all?—and I’m still working on some fantastic new blog posts. In the meantime, I want to revisit my archives and bring some new information to your attention. Let’s get started, shall we? ✱ Digital reading This is a topic that’s going...
by Jamie Chavez | Dec 19, 2013 | The Book Biz
I have such a large TBR* pile that guilt often keeps me from reading something that’s just been published (recent exceptions: Gone Girl, TransAtlantic, After Visiting Friends). And this doesn’t bother me. I’m always “catching up” on something I missed when it came...
by Jamie Chavez | Dec 16, 2013 | Words & Language, Your Editor Says …
My friend author/editor Ramona Richards has a monthly column over at CFOM** and this month she’s declared she’s a reformed Grammar Nazi. What changed her? She got into publishing. 🙂 That’s right. If you work in publishing you learn very quickly there’s no such thing...
by Jamie Chavez | Aug 24, 2013 | Books You Might Like
This is a question I ask often. I ask my friends, I ask people I’ve just met, I ask my authors: What are you reading? No judgment, I’m just curious: What are you reading? I like talking about books. So I was delighted when I stumbled upon Bill Gates’s personal...
