Life in Publishing

When LifeNPublishing has kind of been failing of late

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:48:35 -0400

Hey guys, I owe you an apology. I know I’ve been pretty lame about updating these past few weeks. There are a number of reasons:

1) I don’t have much to complain about.

2) I’ve already covered a lot of territory and I don’t like to repeat posts

3) I’m busy, my life moves on, and to be honest, I’m less into tumblr than I was 6 months ago.

So the point of all this is to say that I’m pretty sure the days of me really pushing to post 5-8 things every workday are over

and I just want to say

I will still post when the mood strikes. And I will still post submissions. And fortunately there are LOTS of awesome blogs to read if I’m not posting:

Life in Small Press Publishing
Life of a Student in Publishing
Life in Religious Publishing
Life in Academic Publishing
Intern in Publishing
Publishing Girl Problems
Publishing Peon
Brooklyn Book Girl
Breaking into Publishing
Inkling
Title to Come
Author Life
Life of a Dude in Publishing
What Should We Call Editing
Life In Book Journalism
Editor Real Talk
and probably many others I don’t know about.

To whom all of which I would say:

So I’m not saying I’m done. I’m not shutting down the blog. I’m just giving fair warning that the posts will slow down (as I’m sure you’ve noticed already). So again,

and

- LNP

Finally getting the email announcing Summer Fridays

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:46:21 -0400

And then realizing yours start a week later than your friends

(Submission from BookDreamerGirl, thanks!)

When you receive a completely unprofessional, hateful e-mail from an author written about a co-author who is still CC'd on the e-mail

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:46:16 -0400

(Submission from Echo, thanks!)

When authors ask questions that could easily be answered with a Google search

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:46:12 -0400

(Submission from Anonymous, thanks!)

Double plus bonus if the question is idiotic or offensive. I once had an author call and ask “Hey, what is the name of that terrorist Mosque by the World Trade Center?”

When an author asks me to do something I already asked him to do

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:46:07 -0400

(Submission from ReturnandFetch, thanks!)

Having to explain to an author that ‘cocaine and hookers. Lots of hookers’ is not an appropriate response to the question ‘What does the word “success” mean to you’ in an interview, even when answered ‘ironically’

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:46:04 -0400

(Submission from LondonLitLover, thanks!)

When I'm late to the BreakingIntoPublishing welcome wagon

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:18:27 -0400

My bad, b.

Errbody, check out BreakingIntoPublishing.

When a highly anticipated manuscript is even better than I'd dared to hope

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:15:38 -0400

(Submission from SpecialEdition87, thanks!)

When every person on NetGalley begins their bio with "I REALLY LOVE TO READ"

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:11:13 -0400

When a blogger tells me their litany of life complaints while they explain their failure to do something

Thu, 09 May 2013 17:15:49 -0400

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

Thu, 09 May 2013 16:31:05 -0400

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

Thu, 09 May 2013 15:45:33 -0400

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

Thu, 09 May 2013 15:02:28 -0400

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

Thu, 09 May 2013 14:15:43 -0400

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

Thu, 09 May 2013 13:31:05 -0400

Editorial feedback on a cookbook

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:45:38 -0400

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

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:03:17 -0400

When someone comments that literary folk are too sensitive

Thu, 09 May 2013 11:15:45 -0400

When one awful book just turns into a thousand little problems

Thu, 09 May 2013 10:30:46 -0400

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

Thu, 09 May 2013 09:45:32 -0400