by Jamie Chavez | May 9, 2015 | The Book Biz
There’s so much in this article I almost don’t know where to start. Mike Shatzkin, according to his bio, is a widely-acknowledged thought leader about digital change in the book publishing industry. In his nearly 50 years in publishing, he has played almost all the...
by Jamie Chavez | Nov 17, 2014 | Guest Posts, The Book Biz
Welcome to the Read Play Edit Blog Recovery Plan! This is how it works: while I’m writing up new posts and trying to replicate the ones I lost, my friends are standing in the gap with original and repurposed posts to keep me going. (I’m planning to be up and running...
by Jamie Chavez | Oct 20, 2014 | Guest Posts, The Book Biz
I’m still catching up, y’all, but my friends are helping me out with new and recycled posts of their own. Today? A great post from YA author N. K. Traver, which ran on her own blog earlier this year. The Comparison Devil I read an article some time ago wherein the...
by Jamie Chavez | Sep 25, 2014 | The Book Biz
The Hachette/Amazon standoff seems to have fanned the flames of the traditional vs. self-publishing discussion. Actually, it’s not much of a discussion any more. As I noted recently, publishing journalist Porter Anderson reported abuse—in the form of comments on a...
by Jamie Chavez | Sep 1, 2014 | Authors & Other Writers, The Book Biz
I’m still grappling with gender issues in fiction. You’ll have seen I hadn’t even thought about the fact that there was a gender divide until I discovered in a personal way that many men don’t read women authors … perhaps because of a perception that women authors...
