I have enjoyed reading Jeff VanderMeer’s writings about writing for a long time. Here is a recent Facebook post by Jeff.
Jeff begins:
I’m sure many people have seen the Publisher’s Weekly article about my editor, Sean McDonald, leaving Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and his imprint, MCD Books, being shuttered. I have a lot of feelings about this, including gratitude for ten years of stability with one editor. Before Sean, I had a trilogy where each novel was taken by a different publishing company. It sold well enough that I was still in the game, but I never had anything approaching a settled situation. I never had any assurance from book to book that I could relax or get comfortable.
