NYT piece: there’s more to Publishing

by Tish & Patrick, January 4, 2010

then meets the screen.”  Amen. Thank you Jonathan Galassie.  With every new format emerging in this digital age, we seem to forget that not only do we need more and more content, we need good content.  Few of us can turn in a perfectly revised, edited and proofed manuscripts BY OURSELVES. Okay we all know you are not going to get the same attention from publishers that Galassie discusses re: Styron.  But we are at that precipice when writers will just send content to Amazon and then it will be on your kindle the next day. Oh you’ll have it fast, the way Tina Brown promises with her new e venture. But isn’t something lost? Why bother revising, why bother getting another set of eyes to look it over  — it doesn’t feel real. Here today, gone…   Galassie explains the relationship between writer and editor.  Your editor will become your most trusted friend. (Afterall you wouldn’t trust your manuscript to your mother.)  The collaboration will make your book even better.  We need friends, editors, proof readers, more friends —- collaboration ain’t a dirty word it’s where fresh ideas (dare I say art) are born.         www.nytimes.com.  www.theeditingcompany.com