Life in Publishing

When I get my author on a panel at Brooklyn Book Fest

When professors rudely decline invitations to review manuscripts

lifeinhigheredpublishing:

ohai Life In Higher Ed Publishing. You haven’t posted much, but I like your style.

HOW EVERY SINGLE PRESS RELEASE DESCRIBES THEIR LATEST BOOK

lifeinbookjournalism:

Sadly they don’t tend to be that good, so you typically end up feeling like this instead.

…except for the books LNP works on, which really do cause spontaneous orgasms. 

When I look at the titles of SF/F books

What I wish I was still naive enough to believe when an author relationship starts out all rainbows and sunshine

When an author whose books have a terrible sales record starts talking about how he knows he really does have a large untapped audience out there

When an author just keeps calling and calling and calling

When an author is hurt that a blogger who begged for their book at BEA eventually writes a scathing review

When an author calls me by a name not even remotely close to my own, even when it’s in every piece of correspondence I have with them.

Submission from Pronombrious, thanks!

It’s like every new intern is actively trying to be worse than the one before them…