by Jamie Chavez | Jul 20, 2015 | Books You Might Like, The Book Biz
In case you missed it, we’ve had a gin-yoo-wine publishing event last week: the release of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman on 14 July. (That date will become important as you read on.) I’ll be frank: although her first book, To Kill a Mockingbird, won a Pulitzer Prize,...
by Jamie Chavez | Apr 30, 2015 | Your Editor Says …
I was reading my Entertainment Weekly at lunch the other day (“12 Things You Never Knew About Harry Potter”) and was positively gobsmacked by number nine: The Half-Blood Prince 9. To try to ensure consistency within the books, and keep track of characters, spells, and...
by Jamie Chavez | Jun 9, 2014 | The Book Biz
A lot of my friends are in the book biz so we’ve been talking for a few weeks now about what’s going on between Amazon and Hachette (one of the Big Five publishers—think Little, Brown and Company; Hyperion Books; Grand Central Publishing, which is the former Warner...
by Jamie Chavez | Jun 6, 2013 | Your Editor Says …
I have said repeatedly—and believe with all my heart—that you cannot be a good writer unless you are a good reader. A voracious reader, in fact. This is advice you’ll see again and again. But before you start indulging yourself in that stack of Dan Brown thrillers or...
by Jamie Chavez | Mar 24, 2012 | Words & Language
The Burma-Shave roadside signs are long, long gone, but folks of a certain age remember these humorous poems that appeared on six sequential signs along the highway out in the middle of nowhere: A peach / Looks good / With lots of fuzz / But man’s no peach / And never...
