Me either. I mean, surely deadline and con come with considerable advance warning? Which allows, like, planning and stuff?
Oh well. It's not like I have the greatest record for turning up to GOH speeches (or even programme...) But still, damn. I like her work, and was definitely intending to go to her GOH speech.
I mean, surely deadline and con come with considerable advance warning? Which allows, like, planning and stuff?
Not neccessarily. According to the mary_gentle conference on Cix, the deadline for the book was the end of March. A lot of 15hr days were pulled, and the book handed in. Phew!
Then they said they were putting it into production at the beginning of May, which is a ludicrously tight schedule for completing all the editing, polishing, rewriting bits that don't quite make sense etc. More 15hr days pulled. It transpires that a long weekend "break" over Easter is not actually feasible unless the book is to go into print not-quite-finished.
Personally, I'd be tempted to tell the publisher to wait a week. But then I've never published professionally, and probably never will, and it's probably not a terribly good idea to piss publishers off.
I believe there were other knock-on events, like scheduling, advertising campaigns, all sorts of bizarre publishery things that are important and interdependent and can't be shifted by a week. I think the book is to be ready for production by beginning of May or it waits till November (which also knocks the schedule around).
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Date: 2003-04-16 06:04 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-16 06:13 (UTC)But on the other hand, that'll be one more hotel room available...
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Date: 2003-04-16 10:58 (UTC)Me either. I mean, surely deadline and con come with considerable advance warning? Which allows, like, planning and stuff?
Oh well. It's not like I have the greatest record for turning up to GOH speeches (or even programme...) But still, damn. I like her work, and was definitely intending to go to her GOH speech.
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Date: 2003-04-16 22:54 (UTC)Not neccessarily. According to the mary_gentle conference on Cix, the deadline for the book was the end of March. A lot of 15hr days were pulled, and the book handed in. Phew!
Then they said they were putting it into production at the beginning of May, which is a ludicrously tight schedule for completing all the editing, polishing, rewriting bits that don't quite make sense etc. More 15hr days pulled. It transpires that a long weekend "break" over Easter is not actually feasible unless the book is to go into print not-quite-finished.
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Date: 2003-04-17 04:29 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-17 05:29 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-16 10:54 (UTC)It's much easier to read at home. I think I need to have a word with IS about my monitor at work...