Thursday, March 20, 2008

Angry Author

Publishers, here's how to piss your authors off forever:
  • don't tell the author that they don't have an editor anymore when she leaves the company
  • don't tell the author that the marketing gal is gone (the only employee who keeps in touch with the author!) just let the emails bounce into internet limbo she's still there (yahooo!), they just gave her a bad email address!
  • don't tell the author that their book has sold out and is going into a second printing
  • don't ask the author if they have any corrections before going into a second printing
  • don't respond to the author's proposal for a another book
Stay tuned, I'll update you with additional big business bureaucratic stupidity. My guess is I'll be adding to this list monthly.

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