by Jamie Chavez | Sep 21, 2015 | Authors & Other Writers, The Book Biz
Not long ago I was a bit demoralized by the brusque reaction I received from an author whose manuscript I’d praised. It was polished, humorous, well-organized. There was really very little for me to critique, but the few gentle massages I suggested were rejected....
by Jamie Chavez | Jul 2, 2015 | Your Editor Says …
To see what fiction-editing craft might be, start by looking at the faults it’s intended to detect. There are two kinds: surface faults and internal faults. A surface fault is local, as immediately evident to the naked eye as a skin blemish. You can point to specific...
by Jamie Chavez | May 11, 2015 | Your Editor Says …
The final copyedit is not the time for you to do a rewrite, sugar. And this is the third so-called final. Stop it. You should have done all this rethinking before now! Your Editor is losing her patience. It’s time for us to talk about how to let go. And why you...
by Jamie Chavez | Feb 26, 2015 | The Book Biz, Your Editor Says …
John Lennon and Paul McCartney were lucky: they met young and they learned to collaborate—in spite of their near-opposite personalities—before they grew up and, eventually, let other things (particularly adulthood) get in the way of the creativity they had together....
by Jamie Chavez | Nov 11, 2014 | Guest Posts, Your Editor Says …
Being off my regular blogging schedule—because, I’ll remind you, my hard drive failed and I lost a lot of work—has affected me in other ways. So while my friends are faithfully supplying articles for me to post, sometimes I forget which day of the week it is. 🙂 This...
