Life in Publishing

When an author does not understand that I too have a google alert set up for their book and continues to forward me every single hit

That one manager who doesn’t appear to do a damn thing other than shuffle work to other departments

The poor production assistant, trying desperately to move a project forward

What I dream about saying when an author thinks their book is the only one I’m working on

When an author makes the same grammatical mistake every. single. time.

Editorial feedback on a cookbook

When it’s someone’s birthday and the boss calls us into her office for cupcakes

When someone comments that literary folk are too sensitive

When one awful book just turns into a thousand little problems

Sometimes logging on to your email in the morning is like this