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stanleylieber

SL/fiction 10.11.09 | 1OCT1993

Oct 11, 2009 18:47

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silenceinspades October 12 2009, 02:29:06 UTC

i still love the end to this.
i also suspect the actual end to the world will be really similar, though probably involving youtube comments in some way.

the whole thing is genius.

i recommend possibly changing the name to 'turbo fuckin': sensual magazine: the book' to guarantee a publishing deal.

stanleylieber October 12 2009, 02:59:24 UTC

Thanks. A few years ago I was informed by a print editor that my use of the word "stick" in the UBICOMP chapter was a hedge. He seemed almost desperate to communicate that the story hadn't shocked him. It was weird because when they kicked me out of school over my zine in the 10th grade, one of the teachers read me almost exactly the same speech. "You don't shock me, I saw weirder stuff than this when I was in college," and so on.

I think the solution to most of these confrontations is to redesign the cover of the book so that the author's name is at least 2.5 times the size of the book's title.

silenceinspades October 12 2009, 03:11:00 UTC

in the book store today, i also noticed it's increasingly popular to put a dead author's name large on the cover no matter how tangentially connected they are to the material.

stanley lieber's charlotte bronte's 1OCT1993 (featuring a quote) by william shakespeare.

one of the few things i noticed about book editors while working at my publishing job a few years ago was most of them make up what they're saying as it comes out of their mouths, and a lot of them make it up after.

stanleylieber October 12 2009, 03:27:43 UTC

I can see their position. Their business is to take the words of an author and somehow transmute them into money. Once this mission has been accepted for what it really is, all that's left is to try and achieve the stated goals by any means necessary. One of the first tricks a working editor learns is to always make an arbitrary change to the submitted work. This ensures the proper relationship between editor and author is clearly communicated, firmly established in the eyes of all who are involved. It's unusual for the editor of a profitable concern (as opposed to the editor of a hobbiest publication that anticipates negative revenue) to allow the power relationship to skew towards the "creatives."

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