Oh, my exciting life, let me show you it ( Read more... )

I would be curious to hear from people as to their honest opinions about the quality of the first seven volumes of the complete works of Heinlein that came out from Meisha Merlin (if they have direct experience of them). Please, no trollish comments, just real ones. I don't have an opinion here, I just wonder about people's experience of the books ( Read more... )

While I see all my friends off on fabulous vacations either now, just recently, or in the near future, here are my plans for the holiday weekend here in the States ( Read more... )

You know you've become jaded when your reaction to the production manager's exclamation, "I'm sending you a manuscript that's going to be a New York Times bestseller!" (based on the author's track record of bestsellers) not only fails to impress but engenders the unvoiced response, "Yeah? Only because most people are idiots when it comes to ( Read more... )

Earlier this week I had a lovely call with a managing editor at a smallish children's publishing house (ellen_kusher, thank you again for that connection!). I'd done a short copyedit project for them last month, and out of the blue she told me during our conversation that not only was she very happy with the job, but she burbled about it at length and said ( Read more... )

Publisher's Weekly has a good article from June 5, 2006 (which I just read in my dead-tree edition while in the bathroom this weekend) called "Delays on the POD Subsidy Express ( Read more... )

"The [--] Country grapevine bore putrid fruit -- a truth no one could keep to themselves and yet could hardly speak. [...] They prayed that the newborn baby survived its ordeals. Their voices rose and crowded the pathway to heaven."

putrid fruit?!

::headdesk::

(The. Worst. Proofreading. Project. This. Year.) (so far)

Dear Book Composition Company ( Read more... )

Poll The "Home Alone scream" - spelling

Part of my daily ritual now that I'm freelance and frisky (okay, every other day, but I digress) is reading various job posting lists on the net pertaining to copyediting, proofreading, etc. in the publishing industry, focusing mainly on my stock-in-trade for the last few years: books ( Read more... )