by Jamie Chavez | Oct 1, 2015 | The Book Biz
Once, as a beginner, I had an experience that revealed the editor’s lot to me. I was a raw and gauche assistant that you would not inflict on any author, but I was thought of as a good ‘backroom’ boy—someone at whom you could shove eleven hundred pages of chaos and...
by Jamie Chavez | Sep 19, 2015 | The Book Biz
I’ll be frank: I did not like the title of this article (“‘I sold my book for $25,000’: A debut novelist’s experiment with radical honesty”), not least because of the slang-ish use of radical in the headline, but the article itself is a good one. A...
by Jamie Chavez | Aug 1, 2015 | The Book Biz, The Writing Craft
In spite of the title, this post is really intended to encourage you. 🙂 My friend Beth Bates lives in the Indianapolis area, and through her I have been lucky enough to meet, in one way or another, several of her friends, writerly folk she knows from her time spent at...
by Jamie Chavez | Jun 8, 2015 | Your Editor Says …
You’ve been waiting for me to bust a rant, haven’t you? Good! Because I’ve had it with Pages. I learned to use word-processing software in 1990 at the company I then worked for. It was WordStar, and I was working on a PC, back in the days before Windows when you had...
by Jamie Chavez | May 21, 2015 | Authors & Other Writers, The Book Biz
That 1983 Labor Day weekend was a little drama … announcing the next era of publishing.* I was to be one of many authors caught in the tumult while it thrashed about in search of a new business model. Of course publishing had begun to change when I was admitted to its...
