by Jamie Chavez | Feb 15, 2016 | The Book Biz
I’ve always prided myself on being reasonably up to date (though not, perhaps, on the cutting edge), particularly for a gal who didn’t grow up with technology. I got a computer pretty early on for a nongeek (back in the days when an app was called software, y’all),...
by Jamie Chavez | Oct 26, 2015 | The Book Biz
Not long ago—in the summer months—I had to explain to a writer that even if the very first publisher to whom he showed his (beautifully edited, ahem) manuscript* loved it (and he had a very specific publisher in mind), there was no way the book would be in the stores...
by Jamie Chavez | Oct 19, 2015 | The Arts & Media
Earlier this summer I was sitting on the deck in the growing dusk after supper listening to the Boy talk with his cousins (my niece and her husband, let’s call them Suze and Sam) about social media. Suze is hovering around age forty; she recently left academia—where...
by Jamie Chavez | Oct 17, 2015 | The Arts & Media, The Book Biz
If you’re an author, you’ve probably been asked to provide your publisher’s marketing folks with a list of keywords for your latest novel. If you’re me, you’ve been given that “product packet” and asked to provide yet more keywords, preferably better ones, when you’re...
by Jamie Chavez | Aug 22, 2015 | The Book Biz
Last night I went to a book signing at Parnassus Books in Nashville. I had a really good time, which I often do at these things. And for a variety of reasons (which I’ll no doubt blog about later), I came home and checked in at the Parnassus website, where I stumbled...
