by Jamie Chavez | May 10, 2012 | The Writing Craft, Your Editor Says …
People ask me all the time for recommendations of books on or about writing they “should” read. Like, how to do it. But by now you should know my opinion about this: there’s a little bit of voodoo involved. The process of becoming a writer is kinda like making a mole...
by Jamie Chavez | Jan 12, 2012 | Miscellany
I do love reading on my Kindle. It’s physically easier (especially when I’m lying in bed), and faster. So why is it that I still would rather own the book? I’m mean, I’m well on my way to having a book storage problem (again). So … why? Help me, Obi-Wan. Well, I think...
by Jamie Chavez | Dec 3, 2011 | The Book Biz
…about Amazon. Right now, Amazon is playing a spoiler role in “my” industry: the production and retailing of books. So even though that new Amazon distribution center they’re planning for my county will bring much-needed jobs, I’m still a bit cranky about it. And yet...
by Jamie Chavez | Nov 12, 2011 | The Book Biz
This piece by Keith Cronin is fantastic. It has Tom Hanks, Clarence Clemons, and ritualistic hazing. Cronin, in a recent post at Writer Unboxed, worries about the state of publishing. Who doesn’t? Honestly, a look at the Kindle store these days is … a bit shocking (in...
by Jamie Chavez | Nov 7, 2011 | The Book Biz
You all know I am a fan of books, right? This house is full of them. From the cookbooks in the kitchen to the gardening books in the breakfast nook (where I can look out into the garden), fiction in the bedrooms, and art and museum books (along with the Onion’s Our...
