by Jamie Chavez | Dec 14, 2013 | The Book Biz
I love a good rant. I’ve done a bit of it myself, as you know.* Those of us who work in the book-writin’-and -sellin’ biz are given to the occasional rant because, well, sometimes we run out of Nice. Sometimes we’ve just got to let off steam. There is nothing new...
by Jamie Chavez | Oct 12, 2013 | The Writing Craft
A lot of people assume that since I am an editor, I am a frustrated writer—I must have a half-finished novel burning a hole in my MacBook Pro. But I don’t, honest. In fact, writing and editing are two different skill sets. Actually, two different gifts. I don’t have...
by Jamie Chavez | Sep 26, 2013 | Miscellany, The Book Biz
In my Monday post I mentioned a little maxim the Boy (and I) heard repeatedly when he declared his intent to major in music. Don’t do it unless you can’t imagine doing anything else, they said. This got a lot of comment. One of my Facebook friends said, “This lesson...
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 | Jun 13, 2013 | The Writing Craft
Lots of folks are dispensing writing tips these days. There’s even a Twitter hashtag for such pronouncements: #writetip. I do it, too, though I try to do it from the position of what I see as an editor. (Someone who’d seen my most-read post found his way to my website...
