by Jamie Chavez | Aug 28, 2014 | Authors & Other Writers, The Book Biz
It is to a lot of women writers, yes. Take that Meg Wolitzer article I directed you to in the previous post; she makes the suggestion that if Jeffrey Eugenides’s book The Marriage Plot (with its title, wedding ring on the cover, female protagonist, and...
by Jamie Chavez | Aug 11, 2014 | The Book Biz
The other day my friend Christy O’Flaherty posted a link to a roundtable discussion about print books versus e-books and started one of her own. As you know, I’ve given up the debate: I like my e-reader for certain very specific activities—traveling, waiting in lines,...
by Jamie Chavez | Aug 9, 2014 | The Book Biz
The standoff between Hachette and Amazon drags on while the rest of us turn to other things. (As Anne Lamott points out, “The last two weeks have been about as grim and hopeless as any of us can remember.” And none of those things include Hachette/Amazon.) However, my...
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 | Jun 28, 2014 | The Book Biz
I’d intended to give you another article today (and we’ll get to that in a minute), but then publishing thought leader Mike Shatzkin issued an interesting post that arrived in my in-box this morning. It’s got a long title—“New data on the Long Tail impact suggests...
