by Jamie Chavez | May 22, 2014 | Authors & Other Writers, Words & Language
This week I have been working on stripping words out of a manuscript—one or two or three at a time—trying to bring the word count down to where the publisher would like it to be. It’s painstaking work, mentally exhausting, but ultimately rewarding. That’s what I hope...
by Jamie Chavez | Jan 11, 2014 | Words & Language
You know I’m fascinated by accents, dialect, colloquialisms, and slang, so when I stumbled on this interesting article, I was all over it. Business Insider says, Regional accents are a major part of what makes American English so interesting as a dialect. It seems...
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...