‘Is there editing anymore?’ A Failure to Communicate
I would like to say that I walked away from last week’s FutureBook conference filled with the confidence that, as Dominique Racca of Sourcebooks believes, 2012 is going to be the most important year for publishers, or that we will find that extra 20% of the day we lost down the back of the couch sometime last century and put it to use imagining and innovating like Stephen Page of Faber says we should, but unfortunately the resounding echo in my mind is neither of these brilliant voices. Instead, what has stuck with me more than anything is the sound of one voice in the audience braying into the microphone:
‘Do people edit anymore? Are there still… editors?’
At the last BookMachine event we were pleased to meet Sam Coleman from Atwood Tate. He’s certainly a man in the know if you’re looking for a job, as he speaks to recruiters in the industry every day. Here he shares some tips for finding work.
