I swear that most editors seem to run their 'publishing companies' from their bedroom. Your editor sounds as bad as the one who published Sherlock's Home and then ran a poll for readers to choose their favourite story, promising that the winning story would be recorded and put online by a famous actor who plays Sherlock Holmes in audio adventures. More than two years later I'm still waiting. And when I wrote to the editor after a year, telling him how sad I was that he hadn't kept his promise, he sent the whiniest reply I've ever heard, sounding like a petulant 12 year old who was sulking because I had complained when his life was so hard and he did it all himself on top of another job and yada yada.
So maybe that's how all editors work. Bunch of bastards.
"on top of another job, yada yada" - exactly this. Practically in every e-mail, this woman keeps ranting on about her other activities, mainly her theatre projects, and one gets the impression that this anthology is merely one of her copious side projects that she has no real intention of seeing through.
Not to mention that her first e-mail to me, a confirmation that she has received my story, was written in Czech so obviously Google translated that it wasn't even funny. I mean, I know my English isn't pitch-perfect but even I can pull off business letter without sounding an illiterate pidgin. Which was exactly what she sounded in her "Czech" letter. I found it rather insulting.
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So maybe that's how all editors work. Bunch of bastards.
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Not to mention that her first e-mail to me, a confirmation that she has received my story, was written in Czech so obviously Google translated that it wasn't even funny. I mean, I know my English isn't pitch-perfect but even I can pull off business letter without sounding an illiterate pidgin. Which was exactly what she sounded in her "Czech" letter. I found it rather insulting.
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