We’re not sure who’s noticed this, but at least once in each of Joe Delaney’s truly scary Last Apprentice books, Tom spins his silver chain widdershins. Or the Spook (or a witch shrieking and howling with blood lust) turns widdershins. By now, the word is deeply embedded in the Greenwillow vocabulary—“Bring that chair widdershins around [...]
Archive of posts filed under the From the Managing Editor’s Desk category.
The “T” Word
Even though it’s been a few days since it published and was thoroughly chewed over by the digerati, I couldn’t help but write about Virginia Heffernan’s NYT blog post “The Price of Typos.” I have honest-to-goodness nightmares about typos. The book-making process on children’s side of the business hasn’t gotten as compromised it has on [...]
Oh, Dear
Rushing to get a book to the printer + some inconceivably, perversely poor industrial design (I’m looking right at you, whoever designed the HP Laser Jet 5200tn!) = a situation in which accidents can happen. And man did we ever have a humdinger here at the shop yesterday. Oh, dear. There’s nothing you can do after [...]
City Discoveries: Secret Literary Histories
We’ve been in our new digs at the HarperCollins building for more than a year, but we just discovered something right next door. It turns out that Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote a large portion of The Little Prince next door to us on 52nd Street, in the building that now houses the famed French restaurant [...]
Oh, lordy, I’m turning . . .
Did you know that 44% of all Greenwillowites celebrate their birth anniversaries between mid-September and mid-October? Martha’s gets the boomlet started. Mine’s tomorrow. And two very dear, special, important people share a birthday in October, and I’m sure you’ll be reading more about them in a couple weeks. The team was nice enough to take [...]
