by Jamie Chavez | Jul 14, 2014 | Miscellany
I have always fantasized about having my own library, and my parents humored me in this. There were already a significant number of books in their home by the time I arrived in it (“and that has made all the difference”)—many of which now live with me. And they gave...
by Jamie Chavez | Jun 30, 2014 | Authors & Other Writers, The Book Biz
In my line of work, I meet a lot of writers. I meet a lot of authors—folks who’ve climbed that mountain of writing and crafting and polishing and seeking and finding an agent and waiting patiently and securing a book deal and editing-editing-proofing and waiting some...
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 | Sep 23, 2013 | Miscellany, The Book Biz
Humans are storytellers. Everything is a narrative with us: Wait’ll you hear what happened to me today at work! I get it. I do. I get that your air force pilot daddy was the best ever, that he was the embodiment of “top gun” before Tom Cruise was a gleam in his...
by Jamie Chavez | Jul 22, 2013 | Books You Might Like, Your Editor Says …
My father loved a good-lookin’ car with a love pure and true—my mother told us kids the first time she saw him he was waxing his father’s shiny black Chevrolet, and she fell in love with him on the spot—and when I was about ten, he bought a 1955 Ford Thunderbird from...
