by Jamie Chavez | Mar 12, 2016 | Your Editor Says …
There’s always something good going on over at Jane Friedman’s blog, and in case you missed it, here’s an excellent guest post about how you might be sabotaging your manuscript. Aside from the number-one reason—the book is bad—the author lists three reasons why your...
by Jamie Chavez | Jul 4, 2015 | The Book Biz
Since the beginning of this year, publishing thought leader Jane Friedman has offered an interview series called 5 On. Each discussion is conducted by author Chris Jane, who “asks established, traditionally published authors and experienced self-published authors five...
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 | Feb 21, 2015 | The Book Biz
We’ve been talking about literary agents this week—what they do, what they don’t do—and my friends at Books & Such Literary Management can tell you a lot more about that than I can. In this post, Janet Grant lets us in on a secret: in spite of what you may think,...
by Jamie Chavez | Feb 16, 2015 | The Book Biz
Some time ago I got an email from an unsigned author I’d worked with years before: I would like to hire you to look over my much-fretted-over query and synopsis and give me your feedback. Also, I would like you to critique the first five pages of the manuscript since...