by Jamie Chavez | Jul 24, 2014 | The Book Biz
It’s dragging out, folks, this impasse. And it seems to have dragged otherwise good people into a shouting match. (I thought only politics did that. But then, everything is politics, no?*) Even the delightful Porter Anderson—a journalist who follows the publishing...
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...
by Jamie Chavez | Jun 5, 2014 | The Book Biz
When I’m working on an edit, one of the things I’m most conscious of is the possibility that the publisher (who hires me and cuts my check) could end up in a lawsuit or—and this is almost worse—have its name, its book, its author bandied about on the interwebs by...
by Jamie Chavez | Apr 19, 2014 | Your Editor Says …
There’a always something interesting going on at Writer Unboxed. I read this article, “Ten Things I’ve Learned from Evaluating Self-Published Books for a Year,” when it was published last winter. The evaluating (and endorsing) was done by two publishing professionals,...
by Jamie Chavez | Mar 22, 2014 | The Book Biz
I often read an article and think, Hmmm, that’s good; my peeps would like this. So I put it in my Short Saturday file to save for next week. Or the next week, or the next. Because I come across a lot of interesting, informative articles. Sometimes it’s a long time...
