Yavelow ChrisChris Yavelow has worked in every aspect of the book business, from typesetting to layout and design; from being an author, editor, publisher, series editor, and agent; to developing software for writers. Yavelow's professional involvement with booksbegan as a teenager during a summer job setting metal type for printing presses. This experience led to his first published book, a graphic novel titled Green (1971). He continued to design and publish limited-edition books until transitioning to full-time journalism in 1884. From 1984 through 1994, he was a contributing editor for Macworld, Electronic Musician, Byte, Computer Music Journal, Macintouch, Macromedia Journal, MacWeek, Verbum, and New Media Magazine. During the 1980s and 1990s, Yavelow was the world's most widely published author in the field of computer music. In 1993, IDG published Yavelow's first mainstream book, "The Macworld Music and Sound Bible" (1400-pages). Praised by reviewers worldwide, it received the prestigious Computer Press Association award in 1993 and was among Mix Bookshelf 's "Top Twenty Titles," as well as a book club "Main Selection," and it was subsequently translated into Japanese, an edition of 30,000 that sold out in two weeks. A number of other co-authoring book deals followed: "Multimedia PowerTools" (Bantam), "Mastering the World of QuickTime" (Random House), as well as major contributions to books such as "Macintosh Virtual Playhouse" (Hayden), "Making Music with Your Computer (Mix Books), and "The Music Machine" (MIT Press). Yavelow was the series editor of A-R Editions' renowned "Computer Music and Digital Audio" book series from 1995 thru 1999. Since the turn of the century, he has been developing an unprecedented software tool for authors, now available at FictionFixer.com. Technically an "expert system," the software analyzes characteristics of current bestselling novels to define a model representing what the public expects from such bestsellers. Besides being a tool for authors and publishers, FictionFixer received much media attention when it was used forensically as an expert system to detect the authorship of several important documents pertaining to the 2008 presidential election. In 2006, he launched YAV Publications at InterestingWriting.com, an author-friendly digital publishing company with extraordinarily high standards. At the end of 2011 he unveiled a focused editing method in his book "Final Edit, The Final Hours of Your Final Draft." By 2020, he had designed and published books for nearly 100 authors. Yavelow moved to Asheville, North Carolina in 2009, and currently participates in many of the writing events and activities of the city that some refer to as "the writing-ist city in North Carolina." Read More Read Less