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From: Jeanne Devlin <jmdevlin7_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 18:31:52 -0600
I do so love having got to meet you on this loop -- hope some day to get to do lunch!Have a feeling it would be like the best publishing seminar ever! jmd
> Subject: Re: [ccbc-net] A Thought
> From: nsawicki_at_nyc.rr.com
> Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 19:20:31 -0500
> CC: ccbc-net_at_lists.wisc.edu
> To: jmdevlin7_at_hotmail.com
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> Jeanne...You hit the nail on the head…."cowed or well mannered." Happens all the time, even at conventions….Pre-mergers/acquisitions of the eighties…many publishing folk were outspoken…even sassy…now, one's boss has a boss who has a boss, etc…people are more careful…especially in public….outspoken/sassy continues but in the privacy of one's own circle, and in some cases, department with folk one trusts implicitly. A more "corporate" environment…which was not the climate when I started out….In those days, publishing companies were called…houses... then it changed to publishing company, now, in some circles, it is the corporation.
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> Chuckled when I read…"what big houses often make easy to do." Spend six months in any house and it is unlikely you would say that again…. many unexpected and sometimes unpleasant surprises can fill a day…as in, the paper at the printer is defective…how fast can we get more…can we have press time as soon as the new lot arrives…sometimes yes, sometimes no….…x is at an autographing…books have not arrived…the review coming from the New York Times is going to be crummy…. etc etc……you know the drill…Norma Jena
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> On Mar 1, 2014, at 7:02 PM, Jeanne Devlin wrote:
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Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 18:31:52 -0600
I do so love having got to meet you on this loop -- hope some day to get to do lunch!Have a feeling it would be like the best publishing seminar ever! jmd
> Subject: Re: [ccbc-net] A Thought
> From: nsawicki_at_nyc.rr.com
> Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 19:20:31 -0500
> CC: ccbc-net_at_lists.wisc.edu
> To: jmdevlin7_at_hotmail.com
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> Jeanne...You hit the nail on the head…."cowed or well mannered." Happens all the time, even at conventions….Pre-mergers/acquisitions of the eighties…many publishing folk were outspoken…even sassy…now, one's boss has a boss who has a boss, etc…people are more careful…especially in public….outspoken/sassy continues but in the privacy of one's own circle, and in some cases, department with folk one trusts implicitly. A more "corporate" environment…which was not the climate when I started out….In those days, publishing companies were called…houses... then it changed to publishing company, now, in some circles, it is the corporation.
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> Chuckled when I read…"what big houses often make easy to do." Spend six months in any house and it is unlikely you would say that again…. many unexpected and sometimes unpleasant surprises can fill a day…as in, the paper at the printer is defective…how fast can we get more…can we have press time as soon as the new lot arrives…sometimes yes, sometimes no….…x is at an autographing…books have not arrived…the review coming from the New York Times is going to be crummy…. etc etc……you know the drill…Norma Jena
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> On Mar 1, 2014, at 7:02 PM, Jeanne Devlin wrote:
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