by Jamie Chavez | Dec 22, 2014 | Guest Posts, The Book Biz
In my ongoing Read Play Edit Rehabilitation Program, let me introduce my friend Christa Allan, writing about the importance of identifying your genre in a post repurposed from her own blog. Finding Your Genre: An Epiphany If you’re not from New Orleans and you find...
by Jamie Chavez | Dec 13, 2014 | The Book Biz, Your Editor Says …
There are days when I think I should send you all on over to the Books & Such blog and just close up shop. Because, honestly, they’ve got great content and they’re all smarter than me. But … I kinda dig my blog. 🙂 So I’ll just keep bringing these posts to your...
by Jamie Chavez | Aug 21, 2014 | The Book Biz
Perhaps it’s because Amazon is refusing to sell certain traditionally published books and those authors are feeling the pinch, or perhaps it’s just a lot of self-published authors truly realizing how much work it is to market a book—but the air seems full of...
by Jamie Chavez | Jul 17, 2014 | The Writing Craft, Your Editor Says …
While you’ve been at the beach this summer, I’ve been up here in the swanky second-floor office in the pink house with the recently painted green door, catching up on blog post writing and reminding you about important posts from my archives. This week we’re...
by Jamie Chavez | Jul 5, 2014 | Authors & Other Writers, The Book Biz
I remember reading about the fatwa (Islamic legal opinion; in this case, a death sentence) levied against Salman Rushdie when his fourth book, The Satanic Verses, was published in 1988 in Britain. For a novel? I thought. It was shocking. (In the interest of full...
