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Originally Posted by kennyc
As I said (and you conveniently left out when you quoted me) today's TPH editors are really nothing more then project managers trying to keep their jobs and manage legal aspects of locking authors and works in, shuffle manuscripts through the process and improve their standing in the food chain and contribute to the corporate bottom line.
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I always read the acknowledgments -- often, for some reason, I read them first -- and they almost uniformly contend otherwise. The
the book I am currently reading is fairly typical:
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Of course, it never would have happened without Roger Scholl, my editor at Crown Business, who made a big bet on an unknown author and also proved a great collaborator. His enthusiasm for this project and patience with me has been beyond anything I could have hoped for. I would also like to thank his assistant, Logan Balestrino, as well as Paul Lamb, Dennelle Catlett, and everyone else at Crown who believed in this project and has worked to make it a success.
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Perhaps such thank yous are the literary equivalent of the
mandatory standing ovation. But, well, I've read this so often in recent years that it can't all be a lie, can it?