'Twas ever thus, and another annoying little nods of the head

[desperance]

M'good-friend-'n'-colleague moshui has just learned that his editor has relocated to elsewhere in the US and elsewhere in the company, and is his editor no more. So he's been reassigned, for the second time; and - naive, sweet thing that he is! - he wonders if this is perhaps a record, to have three editors on a single book between commission and publication?

Needless to say, I laughed him out of court. To the best of my recollection, my own book Paradise ran through five editors during its process. And a wholesale takeover of the company. Oh, and three different publishing plans which would have set it in three different genres (without ever changing a word of the text).

Kids today. They know nothing, I tell you. Nothing...

Comments

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Hee. I think you should write it, simply for the pleasure of demanding the delivery advance...

[autopope.livejournal.com]

Can't; I've been out of the programming game for eight years, which is, like, forever.

(Besides, the other 50% of the advance payable on publication is £500, and likely as not the book wouldn't earn out.)