Get a real website. Do not depend on goodreads (or anyone else) to communicate the brand message you want to convey for yourself as an author and your books.

Even those that succeeded (Mamma Mia, Rent, Sweeney Todd, Chicago) failed to capture much of the magic of the play because somebody insisted that a perfectly good play needed "fixing" to be a good movie. And they wound up making a not-as-good-as-it-could-be movie.

3/3

They have NO IDEA how to tell a story without ridiculous CGI, production gimmicks, horrible miscasting or bloating a storyline from a 2-hour play into a 5-hour movie with unnecessary padding. ($$$???)

Some of the most egregious examples are Cats, Les Misérables, Hairspray and The Producers.

2/3

Hollywood has a terrible track record on 21st century conversion of musicals from stage to screen. Some outstanding musicals have failed miserably as movies because of directors who have no business directing middle school talent shows, much less a mega-million-dollar musicals (or ANY films).

1/3

And it IS part of their job. Those of us who've been editors know that maintaining good communication with your writers is key to a successful publication.

I'd also start looking elsewhere for future work. I wouldn't feel very secure pinning my hope on working with said editor again.

2/2

I completely misread this the first time through.

If I were waiting for acknowledgement of receipt of an assigned piece, I'd be lighting up someone's phone until I got to the right person. I'd also make sure that editor's boss knew they'd become a Supreme Slacker in doing their job.

1/2

I do some freelance editing for a newspaper. It's very limited and doesn't pay very well, but it's regular work that pays on time.

I recently pointed out to a publication paying freelance writers a whopping $100 an article (in 2025 A.D.) that I'd made $100 an article when I began freelancing in the mid-'80s.

I'm not spending all those hours researching and writing to make that little.

The answer is: you don't!
You just have to take an hour-long nap and wake up with better sight.

Consider donating to a shelter.

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Yeah, like that's unusual. How many current Supreme Court justices lied to the Senate during THEIR confirmation hearings? (I can think of at least three.)

And let's not talk about the BS that came out of the OTHER cabinet members' mouths when they went before the Senate.

Lyin' liars gonna lie!

Worse but at least different and with no seniority.