Entertaining quote of the day
We are nearing the transmittal deadline date for books in our Fall season. This means that my office is more full of manuscripts than usual, and we are having two meetings a week to transmit them all. ("Transmittal" is when Acquisitions hands the author's manuscript over to Production and we start to turn the manuscript into a book.)
So I have various piles in my office. One from yesterday's meeting, one for next Tuesday's meeting, one for next Thursday's, and one for the following week's meeting(s), which will certainly be on the Tuesday, but possibly also on the Thursday.
I am ignoring that last pile until the others can be dealt with. One of the editorial assistants just came up with another manuscript. She went to put it in one spot, and I directed her to the "week after next" pile.
That pile is now a tottering tower of paper. The assistant just observed that she is playing "a deadly game of publishing Jenga."