by Jamie Chavez | Sep 15, 2014 | Authors & Other Writers, Books You Might Like
Some years ago, I read a book called The Secrets of Six-Figure Women* by Barbara Stanny. (This is not a post about money; the book itself is about career building.) Stanny, a writer by trade, was struck by the strategies highly successful women commonly tended to...
by Jamie Chavez | Jun 5, 2014 | The Book Biz
When I’m working on an edit, one of the things I’m most conscious of is the possibility that the publisher (who hires me and cuts my check) could end up in a lawsuit or—and this is almost worse—have its name, its book, its author bandied about on the interwebs by...
by Jamie Chavez | May 8, 2014 | The Book Biz, The Writing Craft
Over the last year or so I have run across several interesting articles about topics I’ve already discussed here. Sometimes I do write another post—I keep coming back to plot, for example, and show-don’t-tell—but sometimes I just stew about it. And I’ve decided to...
by Jamie Chavez | Mar 18, 2014 | Books You Might Like
My involvement with the foodie book group means I’ve always had an eye cocked for, well, food books. So how could I ignore this title—The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World’s Greatest Piece of Cheese? Between the fabulous cover design,...
by Jamie Chavez | Feb 3, 2014 | Books You Might Like
I’ve been publishing a recap, every January, of every book mentioned in posts during the past year. (Except—whoops—I missed January this year. But maybe you did too? Man, that month went by fast!) Mind you, this is not a list of books I read last year (although there...
