by Jamie Chavez | Apr 27, 2015 | Your Editor Says …
I really love the left-brain/right-brain duality of editing. It’s both prescriptivist and descriptivist. It’s a puzzle and yet has the same elements. Every project’s different … and every project’s the same—in that it has a need for a style guide. You’ve heard me talk...
by Jamie Chavez | Feb 26, 2015 | The Book Biz, Your Editor Says …
John Lennon and Paul McCartney were lucky: they met young and they learned to collaborate—in spite of their near-opposite personalities—before they grew up and, eventually, let other things (particularly adulthood) get in the way of the creativity they had together....
by Jamie Chavez | Jan 12, 2015 | The Arts & Media, Your Editor Says …
Is this “the free market at work”? Mike Hyatt—whom I admire—has always been an early adopter of technology and a keen observer of the publishing marketplace. I look to him regularly for ideas and inspiration. However, in one of his blog posts he touted crowd-sourcing...
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 13, 2014 | The Book Biz, Your Editor Says …
There are days when I think I should send you all on over to the Books & Such blog and just close up shop. Because, honestly, they’ve got great content and they’re all smarter than me. But … I kinda dig my blog. 🙂 So I’ll just keep bringing these posts to your...
