Last night I was having dinner with a friend who is the publisher as a second job. Like all publishers receive tons of manuscripts that friend, and recounted seeing much worse than the legendary Ancess Keys of Fate . He also said that if there's in libreria delle porcherie spesso non è per mancanza di buona volontà da parte degli editor, ma proprio per mancanza di capacità degli stessi. Lui dice: "se ti sembrano brutti quando arrivano in libreria, non hai idea di come sono quando arrivano davanti all'editor." Ok, ma questo non è un discorso. È come dire: "è arrivato in ospedale che stava morendo di colera, di tifo e di peste e dopo una settimana di cure è morto, ma solo di colera." E poi, se sono così schifosi in partenza - ancora di più di quando vengono pubblicati - perché vengono pubblicati?
Ora, io non sono fra quelle anime belle che sostengono che in editoria lavorano solo grandi professionisti, così, perché sì. On the contrary, I have no reason to believe that the professionalism in that field is higher than the national average, which is very low for my taste. But to think that someone who works in Newton & Compton may have mistaken for something decent like a total disgrace The Prophecy Arsalon is really over, it's like a plumber who exchanges a broomstick for a tube of 3 / 4 or a doctor who exchanges a sinusitis cutting a wound to the foot.
I figured the editor Francesca Mancini opened the manuscript (as he arrived on his desk does not know and do not want to know, but I find it hard to imagine it: beginning with R). I saw her sigh and put her hands in her hair to first row, and then recover with the knowledge that so much shit in the round like that could not be anything good cavarci even working on it every day for ten years. I figured I've just placed punctuation (spaces after the commas that go and not before) and cazzatine like that, and then cut, cut the parts written especially beyond disgusting that so much to get their hands in vain and we delete earned only.
But no, according to my friend it is likely that Mrs. Francesca Mancini has worked on for us really hard, and that he has sent to press when he thought it would become a great novel, perhaps far from feeling good ' beginning.
Frankly, I do not know what to believe.
What do you think?
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