by Jamie Chavez | Nov 12, 2016 | The Book Biz
That answer’s always going to be yes of you ask me, of course. 🙂 But publishing expert Jane Friedman has a more measured response in this article. 🙂 “There are three primary reasons to hire a professional,” Friedman says: 1 The learning experience. 2 The industry...
by Jamie Chavez | Oct 29, 2016 | The Book Biz
When I clicked on this blog post from literary agent Janet Grant and read … Nonfiction Book Structure = More Than a String of Blog Posts … I stood up and cheered. Because, yes, she’s said a mouthful. You cannot just cut and paste together your blog posts and call it...
by Jamie Chavez | Oct 2, 2016 | The Book Biz
This article has been around for a while and you may not have seen it. Excerpted from My Mistake: A Memoir, by Daniel Menaker (2013), it’s a humorous recap of Menaker’s rise and fall in the biz we all love. (Right? We love it, don’t we?) Too much here to choose a...
by Jamie Chavez | Jul 25, 2016 | The Book Biz, Your Editor Says …
A while back I got this question from an author: Do you need to have a trail of every iteration of changes—or could we put this on Google docs and always have a master at hand? I’ll spare you the litany of #CrankyEditor thoughts that went through my head, and get...
by Jamie Chavez | Jul 4, 2016 | The Book Biz
The title of a book is a big deal. It’s the first thing readers see, so it’s an important marketing tool. But there’s no magic formula to creating a good title. Whether fiction or nonfiction, the title should be catchy, interesting, unforgettable; it should get the...
by Jamie Chavez | Jun 30, 2016 | Authors & Other Writers, The Book Biz
Book reviews and book reviewers don’t require any appearances or performances from the author (unless, like Norman Mailer, you show up at newspaper offices to pick a fight with the book review editor—how many of those are left now?). But reviews definitely contribute...
