by Jamie Chavez | Feb 4, 2017 | Your Editor Says …
I love the way this article—from an indie author—on Jane Friedman’s blog begins: Do you need an editor? The answer is yes. The word is getting out, y’all. The article asks three key questions— 1 Do you need an editor? 2 When should you hand over your manuscript? 3 How...
by Jamie Chavez | Jan 2, 2017 | Words & Language
Sent in early December … Dear Kroger, Y’all spend a lot of money on these lovely multipage mailers with recipes and beautiful photography and coupons. (I have an idea about how much these things cost, what with the photo shoots and the graphic designers, the postage,...
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 22, 2016 | Your Editor Says …
It’s a mark of how little things change that I can go back to a list of links I set aside to write about here, find two that are nearly three years old—and they are still timely. Why? Because folks are still confused or mistaken about how to get where they want to go...
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...
