by Jamie Chavez | Jul 26, 2014 | The Arts & Media, The Writing Craft
Time magazine recently ran an article called “Sting’s Shipyard Serenade”* that I thought had an interesting line. Here’s the set-up: As the superstar front man of the Police, Sting wrote nearly every song on the band’s five hit albums from 1978 to 1983. For the next...
by Jamie Chavez | Feb 16, 2013 | The Arts & Media
I sometimes write marketing copy for publishers—copy for the book jacket or the back of the book, of course, but also 150 words for the wholesale catalogue, 50 words for a print ad, 25 words for a retail direct-mail blurb, 10 for a web banner. I often tell writers to...
by Jamie Chavez | Nov 26, 2012 | Words & Language
I grew up in a home filled with books and magazines and record albums. My parents weren’t wealthy; they were working class folks, but this is how they were raised and how they raised their children too. We kids had access to all of those wonders, and one of my...
by Jamie Chavez | May 28, 2012 | Miscellany
This post by my friend Billie Brownell* is running simultaneously on the Cool Springs Press website. Six Degrees of Separation There is a wonderful play (and, later, a movie of the same title) written by John Guare called Six Degrees of Separation. It was deservedly...
