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jupiterpluvius (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} jupiterpluvius) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} otf_wank, |
I love it when people buy the explanations of incompetent publishers with the Stockholm Syndrome line of 'WELL THEY GOT ME PUBLISHED SO WHY ARE YOU SO MEENZ?'
Of course your publisher got you published, because they're a publisher. They wouldn't exist without writers. Being grateful to them for entering into a business relationship with you is like a cereal company being grateful to a supermarket chain for stocking its cereal in its store--it's a professional opportunity about which one is rightly excited, but it's not a favor. And if the supermarket doesn't forward your percentage of the receipts for the cereal you shipped to them, it's not OK for them to say "Oh, I have family problems."
Of course your publisher got you published, because they're a publisher. They wouldn't exist without writers. Being grateful to them for entering into a business relationship with you is like a cereal company being grateful to a supermarket chain for stocking its cereal in its store--it's a professional opportunity about which one is rightly excited, but it's not a favor. And if the supermarket doesn't forward your percentage of the receipts for the cereal you shipped to them, it's not OK for them to say "Oh, I have family problems."
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