I Still Have Most Of My Organs, Actually
So there’s this publishing horror story making the rounds the last few days-the saga of Mandy DeGeit, who submitted a short story to a small press that did anthologies and discovered that it was published with a whole lot of changes, including animal abuse, which she never saw, never okayed, and never had an inkling of until the bizillion copies ( Read more... )
Of course since English isn't their native language there wasn't really editing on the book, beyond "oh geeze this is turning out about 2x longer than we budgeted for, I can push it a little but SOMETHING NEEDS TO GO".
But aside from that? The object itself is great, it's gotten some promotion, and if the Muse taps me on the shoulder and says "You need to do a second Tarot deck", I'll be offering it to them first thing, no questions asked.
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> Small presses are fraught with peril, mostly in the form of well-meaning people who have no idea how much work they’re getting into and how much money they won’t be making, so yes, vet your small press thoroughly.
yeah I'm kind of backing into setting up a small press focused on SF/fantasy graphic novels and oh my fuck I am so gonna be in over my head at some point. I am at least trying to structure it in ways to severely limit the Not Making Money part.
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Yay! It'll be here on Tuesday!
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