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Oh wait - I didn't want to be a manager.
This update brought to you by the realisation that my "I'm the manager" metaphor for my job and why authors need me is a little more apt than I ever thought. Managing seems to involve babysitting and handholding and PR shit that I don't want to do. And casting the author/editor/typesetters/copyeditors/proofreaders/etc into the various slots of a musical group on tour is...meaning that I wind up with the babysitting when the lead singer gets completely wasted every night in the parking lot. (Or the author fails to turn in their draft on time, which is surprisingly more like getting drunk in the parking lot than you might think.)
I did not sign up to be the person wielding the pooper-scooper for the elephants just so I could say I was in showbusiness. And I don't want to be a manager.
This update brought to you by the realisation that my "I'm the manager" metaphor for my job and why authors need me is a little more apt than I ever thought. Managing seems to involve babysitting and handholding and PR shit that I don't want to do. And casting the author/editor/typesetters/copyeditors/proofreaders/etc into the various slots of a musical group on tour is...meaning that I wind up with the babysitting when the lead singer gets completely wasted every night in the parking lot. (Or the author fails to turn in their draft on time, which is surprisingly more like getting drunk in the parking lot than you might think.)
I did not sign up to be the person wielding the pooper-scooper for the elephants just so I could say I was in showbusiness. And I don't want to be a manager.
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