by Jamie Chavez | Jun 15, 2015 | Your Editor Says …
This happens to me three or four times a year: I get an email referral from an agent, or someone at a publishing house, or another author I’ve worked with for a job that I would really, really love to have. Sometimes that’s because the publisher is one I haven’t...
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 | Apr 21, 2015 | Miscellany
If you were here last week, you know I’ve changed my subscriber distribution system from the on-its-last-legs Feedburner to MailChimp. If you’re a subscriber, I believe you got that post a week ago Monday. However, it’s come to my attention that you did not get the...
by Jamie Chavez | Mar 23, 2015 | Authors & Other Writers, Creativity
A few weeks ago I saw this on Twitter—“Inspiration is for amateurs. Real writers write.”—and (as we say in the South) it just about made me lose my religion. Meaning it made me so furious I ranted about it on Facebook. What in the world is this person talking about?...
by Jamie Chavez | Feb 19, 2015 | The Writing Craft
There are days when I write these posts and the words just come. (Possibly because I’m all worked up about something. Possibly because I’m not worried about meeting a deadline. Possibly because I’m feeling writerly.) There are other days when I scroll through my list...
