Editors’ Blog
getting paid
This week we’ve had two calls from people wanting to use poems from our authors books in class and asking us about copyright. Now, this is one of the basic and most interesting things about copyright – it belongs to the author. You talk to the publisher if you want to publish something from the [...]
the conspiracy of coincidence
I’m sure no one’s in any doubt about the human brain’s ability to invent – I mean look at the industry we’re in! And this week I think have come to understand one of the ways in which conspiracies start. See, about a month ago we left INPRESS (the group that helps promote independent presses [...]
Self Help
Today I got a self-help manual sent for consideration for publishing. <inhale> No, I didn’t get mad; I wondered. First, the e-mail was clearly forwarded – technology has a way of adding these little arrows or coloured lines beside forwarded text that make it clear if the message is recycled – that, already, is minus [...]
the downsides of growth
When I started out as an editor, one of my favourite things was to finish my ‘working day’ and then settle down to read the unsolicited manuscripts we had received during the day. Conscious of my own frustrations as a writer, rarely hearing back from editors when I sent work out (sometimes even when my [...]
