I've taken steps to reintroduce myself to some of the managing editors/production editors I worked with and for over the years (30 years in the business), and only three of them seem to still be actively at their original jobs or at least at their publishing houses ( Read more... )

Greetings to our contributors and friends ( Read more... )

Either this is a fake-out, or the murder-crime book I'm proofreading tonight just turned into a vampire book more than a quarter of the way through it.

O.O

Didn't see that coming. Pleasant surprise.

Granted, I also didn't see the marketing material for the book, so I'm reading this one cold, so to speak.

Just finished typesetting a good new project for a good new company: UFO Publishing -- their premier book is called Unidentified Funny Objects.

And you know me, I'm an old hand at this. But some of the stories in the anthology had me stop typesetting and read them -- and laugh out loud. (I think when I got to Resnick's about Einstein vs. Himmler ( Read more... )

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Unable to go to Kara's wake and funeral: they were in DC today and tomorrow, and it was just too far out of my means to get a flight down there so quickly. I hate this not having money thing; she wasn't exactly a best friend, but she was a classmate from NCS and other good friends will be there. Fuckity fuck fuck ( Read more... )

Coming off of my first editorial gig in six months (since my arm was broken in October of last year, in fact) -- omg, money, not much, but some money from this, we need it so much -- and I haven't slept more than three hours a day in the last week ( Read more... )

I just spent two days doing more activity than I've done in any one day for the last 3 months, prior to the spine surgery. Hurray! I seem to finally be improving. Granted, I'm still on Dilaudid every 6 hrs. :D

shinyopals has arrived for her stay to visit & help with work on the Heinlein Project for the next 4 weeks or so. And there's plenty for her to work ( Read more... )

You may have heard by now, The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman), which I copyedited at his request for him & the publisher, has now won the Carnegie Medal.

I'm still too tired from trying to heal from this spine surgery I just had, but I'm terribly happy for him & all that's come out of this project for his career.

Posted from iPhone, flat on my poor ( Read more... )

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