WHAT A ***!!!**!*
From the OTHE SIDE OF THE DESK
Piers Blofeld finds words for a publisher whose manners are as bad as their business practices
A strange thing happened last week. I was lost for words. Happily, it didn’t last long. The reason I was dumbfounded was that I came across a publisher who found a new way of being a chiselling shithead.
Now, to be fair to traditional publishers who mostly are quite nice really, this was a member of the new tribe of non-traditional publishers – and I am going to be a bit careful here, because even though I think what this person proposed was abominable, I don’t think it is fair to uses this platform to attack individuals.
Suffice it to say they work for a large corporation and as I say in a non-traditional area of publishing. They announced they were looking to commission an erotic thriller (I love the diverse range of hats I get to wear in this job) and it so happens I have a client who started out selfpublishing adult romances back in the Fifty Shades boom so there was a potentially nifty fit.