by Jamie Chavez | Mar 5, 2018 | Authors & Other Writers, Books You Might Like
I read a lot of great books last year, as you know. It’s interesting to look at my list from each year; I can see things like what I was working (editing) on and also things that were troubling me, or how stressed I was. Just a little review of my life, you know? And...
by Jamie Chavez | Feb 19, 2018 | The Book Biz
I might not have been blogging last year but boy, have I been editing—content, line, copy, you name it. Fiction and nonfiction, too, which is what we’ll discuss here.* I love it all, and I’ve been very busy. But I’ve noticed a disturbing trend: I’ve received several...
by Jamie Chavez | Feb 4, 2018 | Books You Might Like
The last couple years have been … eventful. Eventful, adjective: 1) full of or rich in events; 2) momentous. He led a short but eventful life. It was an extremely eventful period in American history. I didn’t make that last example up, y’all; Merriam-Webster said a...
by Jamie Chavez | Jan 29, 2018 | Books You Might Like
My life is moving by at the speed of page-turns … Kate Atkinson / A God in Ruins / LF Rhys Bowen / Her Royal Spyness / GF James Lee Burke / The Glass Rainbow / GF Thomas Cahill / Heretics and Heroes / NF Beverly Cleary / Ramona Quimby, Age 8 / YF Ta-Nehisi Coates / We...
by Jamie Chavez | Jun 16, 2017 | Books You Might Like
The high spirits of Renaissance Italy spilled over into other European lands, though the waves set off by so much gaiety sometimes landed elsewhere with a shock and might even be received with contempt. The Renaissance, as it appeared elsewhere, could at times look...
