by Jamie Chavez | Feb 12, 2015 | The Writing Craft
Here’s another in my Study This series about intentional reading—that is, novels you writers will read for pleasure (always pleasure!) but also to study. To deconstruct. To have a look at how the author made the magic. You know I love YA, so it should come as no...
by Jamie Chavez | Feb 5, 2015 | Books You Might Like
I’ve been publishing a recap, every January (or February!), of every book mentioned in posts during the past year. It’s just a list of of books I talked about last year, here on the blog, and I present them as a cross-reference … in case you were thinking of reading...
by Jamie Chavez | Jan 22, 2015 | The Writing Craft
You’ve heard me say, over and over, that reading will make you a better writer. It will. And I’m just talking about reading for pleasure and absorbing things by osmosis that will show up unbidden in your writing later. Now let’s try something else. Let’s try...
by Jamie Chavez | Sep 4, 2014 | Authors & Other Writers, The Book Biz
When I started looking into the issues of gender—specifically women—in the publishing industry, I was blissfully serene about them. Which is to say, I thought we were past all that. I’m of the generation of women who can remember a time when Harriet Nelson and June...
by Jamie Chavez | Sep 1, 2014 | Authors & Other Writers, The Book Biz
I’m still grappling with gender issues in fiction. You’ll have seen I hadn’t even thought about the fact that there was a gender divide until I discovered in a personal way that many men don’t read women authors … perhaps because of a perception that women authors...
